Maltsters
Malting is where gluten-free brewing is decided. The grain exists in enormous quantity; the breweries exist; what does not exist, at any scale that resembles barley's, is the malting layer between them. This page maps the people and companies who do it anyway — dedicated gluten-free malthouses, contract maltsters who will run a clean batch, and the home maltsters proving methods the commercial layer hasn't industrialized.
Page established 2026-08-25 · seeded from existing site entries; growing.
How to read it — entry rules, and what a listing means
Two kinds of entry. Where someone is already described in the research directory, this page carries a pointer — name, role, subjects touched, link to the page that owns the description. Where they are not, this page carries the entry itself. Nothing is described in two places.
Organizations sit inside the role they perform. A malthouse belongs here alongside the maltsters who run it.
Described, never endorsed. A listing is a map reference, not a recommendation, and implies no relationship with this site. Gluten-free status is reported as the malthouse states it, never as our assurance — verification is its own discipline.
What qualifies. A public-facing malting operation, commercial offering, or documented body of work. Private individuals are not listed without consent.
Corrections and removals — contact us.
The roster — who malts it
— Dedicated gluten-free malthouses —
Grouse Malt House — Wellington, Colorado. Millet, buckwheat and rice malts; states it produces gluten-free specialty malts exclusively. Verification worked example · subjects: millet, buckwheat, rice, corn
Eckert Malting & Brewing — Chico, California. Custom gluten-free malting and roasting with its own brewery attached; states a dedicated gluten-free facility. Verification worked example · subject: rice
— Home maltsters —
Andrew Lavery — home maltster and author of a home-malting guide. Described on Homebrewers & Home Maltsters
— Sourcing and verification —
The discipline for checking any of these claims lives on Malthouses that run gluten-free and Finding a contract craft maltster. Gluten-free status above is reported as each malthouse states it — never as our assurance.
Seeded 2026-08-25 from entries this site already holds. Growing.
Bodies & gatherings — the guilds, standards and meetings this role runs through
Not yet mapped. The bodies and gatherings we expect to cover here: the Craft Maltsters Guild, the malting-analysis methods bodies, the craft malt conferences, and the certification schemes a gluten-free malthouse operates under.
Working with them — how a brewer commissions malt
Not yet written. When it is, it will answer: how contract malting works, what a maltster needs from you (grain, volume, lead time, specification), what to ask for on the certificate of analysis, and how to verify a gluten-free claim rather than accept it. This is where the site's existing sourcing guidance belongs.
How this role connects — documented links to other roles and subjects
No entries yet. Every connection carries its own evidence link — no inferred relationships, no speculation.
Who's missing — where this page's coverage runs out
Not yet assessed. A documented zero is an answer.
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