A Nordic Malt House - an account and blue print - Nordic Innovation

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Summary: A Nordic Malt House In order to develop beer types, which are Nordic in their origin, the brewers need to have malt which are malted from grain grown in our region and malted according to the desires and traditions among Nordic brewers. Today only a handful of malt houses serve the needs of the beer industry. Small scale brewing among the microbrewers is mainly carried out with malt imported from either Germany or UK. In other words we need to establish malt houses, which can produce malt specialized to the microbrewers marked, and which cooperate and support the Nordic trend. Different models have been discussed. In the working group it has been agreed to develop a malting plant, which may produce batches of ½-1 tonnes. This can be carried out using either floor malting or malting in a box. Due to a less handwork demanding technique we have emphazised the box approach and designed a modified Saladin-box. The box is used both for steeping, germination, drying and the final curing. Humidity as well as the temperature may be fully controlled during the malting process by using air, irrigation and a mixer constructed of vertically turning ‘snails’. Curing at a higher temperature than 150 0 C has to be carried out in a coffee roaster. A seed cleaner is used to clean seeds before malting and after to remove the rootlets and acrospires before storing and packaging the malt. The number of boxes defines the total capacity of the malting plant. With 7 boxes and 7 days up to 7 tonnes may be malted per week. With 40 weeks the annual capacity is up to 280 tonnes or even more. The investment in the necessary equipment is app. 1 mio DKK or 150.000 euro. This includes facilities to store and clean seeds/malt, seed/malt transport, the malting itself, roasting and packaging. The malting plant could be houses in a 400 m2 building with the necessary facilities (water, electricity, air, accessability etc. Yearly costs for housing is estimated to app. 180.000 DKK or 24.000 euro. A very rough estimate of the production costs shows that it costs between 7 and 8 DKK or app. 1 euro. Including the investment and housing the production prize will be app. 9,5-11 DKK or app 1,5 euro assuming that the total annual production is 100 t. If the production is 300 t the comparable production prize decreases to 8,3-9,6. Several factors are critical to the economy, however this level is comparable to other small malting facilities, and should be competitive. Assuming that brewers are willing to pay for malt with complete transparency and hopefully interesting brewing and taste qualities, the technical solution and the malting house design should be able to become a healthy small business. If the malt is sold to an average price of 15 DKK/kg (ex VAT) the potential profit margin is about 4 DKK/kg. However, as the idea is to meet specific demans from individual brewers, the costs of each batch may easily become higher than the most rational approach. Hence, a maor challenge is to create close cooperation with the brewers in order to meet their demands and get their acceptance of the relevant price. It is therefore proposed to establish the malting plant organised as a cooperative business. Side 2
Kassettemalteri Papiret er udarbejdet inden for rammerne af projektet Nordic Malthouse for at foreslå en løsning, som gør det muligt at fremstille malt til små bryggerier i Norden, i små mængder og af såvel veldefinerede som eksperimenterende typer. Papiret er skrevet på baggrund af udsigten fra den danske verden og skal samtidig ses som et svar der har generel anvendelighed i Norden. Vision Malteriet skal placere nordisk/lokal malt forrest i bevidstheden om udviklingen af nordisk øl. Målsætning • Malteriet skal være konkurrencedygtigt og sigte mod at få merpris for kvalitet • Malteriet skal være det naturlige bindeled i mellem kornproducent og brygger. • Malteriet skal være i stand til at imødekomme individuelle ønsker fra bryggerens side. • Malteriet skal modsvare mikrobryggeriernes typiske behov. • Malteriet skal have kapacitet til at køre flere forskellige maltninger samtidig. • Malteriet skal have en udformning og faciliteter til at være eksperimenterende • Malteriet skal være egnet til træning og undervisning. • Anlæggets proces og maltens kvalitet skal være reproducerbar. • Anlægget skal være enkelt at håndtere og rengøre. • Anlægget skal være godkendt til økologisk produktion. Organisation Princip Om muligt skabe et klima af konstruktivt og tæt samarbejde i trekanten mellem brygger, malter og korndyrker, hvor malteriet er et fælles ’læringssted’, hvor alle relevante erfaringer og krav fra såvel dyrkerside som bryggersiden omsættes til praksis i malteriet og vice versa. Altså som mere end blot et markedsbestemt udbuds-og-efterspørgselsrum. Ejerskab Den smukke tanke er vel et andelsselskab, hvor de interesserede parter hver bidrager. Lad os som tankeeksperiment sige 1:1:1 eget af hhv. korn-malt-øl siderne. Men det kan jo også startes af en enkeltperson (el.lign.), som har mod og lyst Organisering Andelsforeningens bestyrelse har ansvaret og ansætter en bestyrer. Bestyreren har ansvaret for drift, produktudvikling, salg og formidling samt daglig ledelse og evt. personale. Kommentar Vi har lejet med tanke om hvorvidt man kan se en model for sig, hvor man (som brygger) har ret/pligt til at bidrage, for at kunne få maltet. Jeg tror disse smukke tanker hurtigt bliver for luftige. Derimod tror jeg at det helt afgørende er at der er en brændende person, som skal få malteriet til Side 3
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