Reference – Reading your Malt COA

Reference – Reading your Malt COA

Great Western Malting has prepared a 1-page easy reference sheet to help you understand your Malt Certificate of Analysis (COA).  This handy tool provides definitions to each of the sections of the COA and describes the impact each item could have on your brewing...
GWM Recognized for 100% Renewable Electricity

GWM Recognized for 100% Renewable Electricity

Great Western Malting (GWM) is now malting with 100% renewable electricity to reduce its carbon footprint. In 2020, GWM partnered with Clark Public Utilities to offset carbon-based electrical energy usage through purchasing certified Renewable Energy Credits (RECs)...
Choosing Malt for Your Craft Spirits

Choosing Malt for Your Craft Spirits

Choosing Malt for Your Craft Spirits The craft spirit movement has enjoyed explosive growth over the past decade or so. What are craft spirits? Like beauty, craft is in the eye of the beholder or, in this case, the consumer, as there is no strict definition of the...
GWM MIC Pilot Malting Tour

GWM MIC Pilot Malting Tour

The Malt Innovation Center Pilot Malting System In this short video, you can see all the elements of the GWM MIC Pilot Malting System.  With a scaled down version of the entire malting process, this is usually the starting place for all our new malt...
GWM MIC Pilot Brewery Tour

GWM MIC Pilot Brewery Tour

The Malt Innovation Center Pilot Brewery Take a few minutes to see how the Great Western Malting Malt Innovation Center (MIC) Pilot Brewery is set up.  This is where we initially trial any new malts we are...
Make Sense of Your Certificate of Analysis

Make Sense of Your Certificate of Analysis

Make Sense of Your Certificate of Analysis Craft Brewing is both an art and a science, but you needn’t be a chemist to appreciate your malt supplier’s certificate of analysis (COA). Don’t be overwhelmed by the technical analysis contained in a COA; use it. Make sense...