Distillers use high quality sources of starch/energy including grains to create fine single malt whiskeys and spirits. Varieties of 2-row base and roasted barley malts and other malted grains provide high proteins and diastatic power for high fermentable extract straight out of the mash tun and optimum predicted spirit yield. Typically, there are three categories of malts that are particularly appealing to distillers, including high-enzymatic malts, high quality base malts, and specialty malts used in small inclusion rates for flavor addition. Distillers also use other grains such as rye. View more about Great Western Malting’s distilling malts on our webpage.