Roasting your own malt

[Kenny.brews]

My wife has brought a air fryer/oven thing. It has a rotating small drum that is a stainless mesh, it looks like the mesh will be small enough to hold grain. Thinking of giving it a go roasting up some malt, the darker malts are quite expensive and because the drum rotates i should be able to go reasonable dark without scorching much at all. Will try it out for. dark beer. might not quite get a chocolate malt, but i can always buy half a kilo of that

 

[GFHomebrew]

My wife has brought a air fryer/oven thing. It has a rotating small drum that is a stainless mesh, it looks like the mesh will be small enough to hold grain. Thinking of giving it a go roasting up some malt, the darker malts are quite expensive and because the drum rotates i should be able to go reasonable dark without scorching much at all. Will try it out for. dark beer. might not quite get a chocolate malt, but i can always buy half a kilo of that

Sounds like fun pretty much how the maltsters do it. Looking forward to the results.
Oh and remember to let them dark roasted malts rest in either a paper bag or hop sock to reduce astringency for two weeks or so I did mine.

 

[philjohnwilliams]

I never thought of using my air fryer to roast malt. I will have to try this.

 

[LJS]

Using an air fryer with a rotating drum is how I usually roast my malt. Just today i finished a batch of something (hopefully) similar to chocolate malt.
The air fryer I use is useless for frying food so I thought I might try to use it for roasting malt. It did work, bit I still need to fiddle with the settings and timing.
I also had to close the circular sides of the drum, as they have holes trough which the malt can fall.

~ 680g Pilsener Malt @ 220°C for 45min (+/-), no soaking
should give a reasonable result for chocolate malt, however I need to confirm that. Last batch I went for 30min, still too pale, gave it some more time, re-checked, etc. The malt always cooled down in between, so I still have no precise timing.