Diastatic Malt Powder

November 5, 2015 1:39 PM

Is there a store that sells Diastatic Malt Powder in the Twin Cities? Can you tell me that store? Dear reader, which store is it?
posted by Think_Long to Food & Drink (7 answers total)

I have had good luck finding obscure baking ingredients at Mississippi Market. The internet also tells me that Whole Foods carries it.

I would try calling each of those stores, and maybe some of the other hippy dippy type co-ops (e.g. The Wedge, Seward Co-op, etc.)
posted by sparklemotion at 2:25 PM on November 5, 2015 [1 favorite]

When I was looking for it (for this recipe), I was able to find it at a homebrew supply shop (this one, in Philly). Our two Whole Foods didn't stock it at the time.

The recipe wasn't very good.
posted by supercres at 2:27 PM on November 5, 2015

You actually generally won't find diastatic malt powder at homebrew stores; it's not used at all in brewing. Confusingly, you'll find dried malt extract, or DME, which IS a malt powder, but it's non-diastatic - the process that creates it destroys the enzymes which put the 'diastatic' in diastatic malt powder.
posted by Itaxpica at 4:04 PM on November 5, 2015

Response by poster: Well, I've called all the co ops, brew suppliers, and health stores that I could think of - no luck. I'll have to order online, or stop by my local bakery and beg a cup off of them.

For future reference: supposedly amalyse is a good substitute in much more limited quantities. You can buy it at a brew supply store, but I didn't want to shell out for a 3 lb bag when I would only have needed about 2 grams.

Thanks all!
posted by Think_Long at 6:23 AM on November 6, 2015

if you order it online, I do highly recommend king arthur flour for it.. (that's where I get mine from, though I think I got a bag, not a jar)
posted by k5.user at 8:20 AM on November 6, 2015

The U has a "Department of Food Science and Nutrition" -- call them and ask, maybe?

https://fscn.cfans.umn.edu/faculty-staff/faculty
posted by wenestvedt at 9:25 AM on November 6, 2015

The pair who wrote "Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day" are form the Cities. Does their blog suggest any local sources?
posted by wenestvedt at 9:28 AM on November 6, 2015 [1 favorite]