The home market of Viking Malt is Scandinavia and the Baltic Sea region, but we also export malt to overseas countries such as Brazil, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Panama, Venezuela, Trinidad, South Africa, Angola, Nigeria, Tanzania, Mozambique, Japan and Russia.
Sahti Malt is a special malt blend for producing traditional Finnish beer, Sahti, highly appreciated, for example, by Michael Jackson, an English writer and journalist who has written several books about beer and whiskey. Sahti is traditionally brewed in farms and country houses. Today, there are also some commercial Sahti breweries in Finland. Sahti Malt is sold in 25 kg bags in many Finnish markets and supermarkets.
We do pack our malts to 25 kg (55 lb) plastic bags. Smallest sales unit is one pallet on those bagged malts. That quantity is 1 000 kg (2 200 lb) as a standard. We can also deliver mixed pallets against certain service fee. Sahti Malt is also sold in some Finnish supermarkets as single bags for homebrewing purposes. For real small quantities, like few kilos, we have some partners who sell our malts in those quantities.
We use several ports for bulk shipments: Gdansk/PL, Halmstad/SE, Vordingborg/DK and Klaipeda/LT. If you want to find out port conditions of ports mentioned please contact us darius.vilkas(at)vikingmalt.com
We offer several different shipping options depending on the destination of your order. Please send your inquiry to Viking Malt and we provide with freight based on your location.
Yes! We’d love to meet you. Please contact Viking Malt office nearest you to make a pick-up appointment.
When an order is shipped, we’ll update you by informing on status or tracking number(s) when applicable or send you an email with the relevant information. Using the tracking number(s) provided, you can follow the path of your order from our warehouse to your destination.
Viking malt offers five delivery options:
• Malt delivery by Containers 20/40 feet – This option allows deliveries in bulk with liner or in bags 25/50kgs
• Malt delivery by trucks – Our basic delivery option in bulk by tank type trucks or tippers.
• Malt delivery by vessels – Typical overseas delivery option carried out by coaster type vessels or part shipments by bigger vessels.
• Malt delivery on pallets – Most flexible delivery option for special malt products. Smallest shipment size ½ pallet (500kgs) up to full truck load (FTL 24 tons)
• Rail wagons – This option is available for destinations mainly in Russia and other countries where Russian type railway can reach.
There are several reasons. First of all, barley germinates easily in low temperatures. As a result of the germination process, barley contains, for instance, high levels of activity of the main starch degrading enzymes, beta- and alfa amylases. These enzymes enable the natural ethanol fermentation process when used in a brewery or distillery. Secondly, barley has proper husk. This ensures the fluency of the wort separation step in the brewhouse process. Barley malts also possess pleasant and enjoyable flavours that consumers prefer.
The other cereals, like wheat, share some of the good malting features of barley, but not all of them.
Yes. Our raw material sourcing is based on the contracts between Viking Malt and farmers (in some cases via trading companies). Within these contracts there are necessary details designed to guarantee full traceability. In most cases, our barley also comes from the local fields by our malthouses, so we can call our domestic beers genuine local produce! Our selection also includes a Signature Malt concept product called Arctic Malt, where single farm barley is used for the malts.
Yes. The cold winter period here in the Northern Europe acts as a natural pesticide, and thus less chemical treatment is needed during the growing period.
Sahti Malt is a special malt blend for producing traditional Finnish beer, Sahti, highly appreciated, for example, by Michael Jackson, an English writer and journalist who has written several books about beer and whiskey. Sahti is traditionally brewed in farms and country houses. Today, there are also some commercial Sahti breweries in Finland. Sahti Malt is sold in 25 kg bags in many Finnish markets and supermarkets.
You can always check our shortlist of different beertypes. From those descriptions there is a link to our list of malts. Different recipes can be found here.
Anyhow good discussions are always fruitful. So feel free to contact us.
There have been several attempts, but so far consumers have not been willing to drink the resulting products. The natural brewing process just requires malts, without any technological tricks. That is why beer has been such a popular drink for thousands of years… CHEERS!
First we carefully test the varieties with the customers that we accept for our purchasing portfolio. The growing conditions,which have a significant impact of the quality of the malts, in each country are thus also taken into consideration. We typically focus on internationally approved varieties, such as PROPINO and PLANET and on special varieties for special products. Every Viking Malt country has it`s own system for testing and approving the varieties for malting. For example in Finland, the special instance called Malting Barley Committee, which oversees the cooperation between brewers, maltsters, farmers and breeders, follows the variety development and grants approval to new malting barley varieties.
Essentially every kind of kilned and roasted malt necessary for the brewing of any kind of beer. Pilsner Malt, Munich Malt, Distilling Malt, Caramel Malts, Black Malt, Chocolate Malt, and Wheat Malt, for example. We can also advise brewers about possible beer recipes and specific features of the different malts if need be.
Please see Our Malt Selection for more information on our malts.
It is true that malting, especially its germination stage, increases some beneficial properties of cereals. Research has shown that some important vitamins, such as folates (B group vitamins), are increased during germination. Germination also modifies grain structure and makes the availability of important minerals (potassium, magnesium, phosphorus, silicon), and antioxidants (phenolic compounds) better than in unmalted cereals. On the other hand, a beneficial dietary fiber (β-glucan) is degraded during malting.
No, we make malt solely from barley, wheat and rye. All these cereals contain gluten or gluten-like protein, which is harmful for those suffering from coeliac disease. About 80 % of the total proteins in these cereals are gluten. Although the amount of proteins can be slightly reduced by the action of the proteolytic enzymes formed during germination, it is not possible to completely remove gluten during malting. Proper control of proteolysis in brewing may result in gluten-free beers, even if barley malt is used as a raw material. Our malt has been used in the production of gluten-free beers, i.e. beers where gluten content is less than 20 ppm.
Yes. At the monent we have five products available as standard..
Yes, all Viking Malt malts produced are NON-GMO.
Viking Malt is mainly a family owned company. The original company, Oy Lahden Polttimo Ab, was founded already back in 1883, still having a malthouse on a same spot in Lahti, Finland. The ownership is now held by the fifth generation. Minor part of company is owned by Swedish Farmers Association Lantmännen. There are lot of family owners there!
Yes. Occasionally availability of organic barley may limit the malt production.
The main impact of our operations comes from the farming of our raw materials. We have development programs in place to find better yielding varieties to reduce that load. We also try to buy our raw materials as close to our malthouses as possible. For the malting process, we constantly introduce new methods and ways to use as little energy and water as possible. To support all of this, all of our personnel are educated on environmental issues. In addition, it is good to know that using barley for malting and brewing is better for the environment than using it for feed (meat production), due to the production and emission of fewer dangerous greenhouse gases as only carbon dioxide is released from the malting process.
Our malting barley sourcing is as local as possible. All our six malthouses we have at the moment are surrounded by good malting barley growing areas. Local sourcing enable efficient supply chain and give us the improved control over the variety development and farmer cooperation. Our Arctic Malt concept is good example of that. As our sites being not too far from each others, the quality risk of crop failure can be managed too.
We have brewed quite a many beers is pilot brewery over the years by our Brewmasters. Those recipes and brewing reports can always contain useful information for the junior brewers. Our Brewmasters can also assist in all kind of other questions related to brewing and usage of malts and other raw materials. Our laboratory can offer some essential wort and beer analysis.
