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Proudly NZ Owned - The Gladfield Malt Story
The Michaels are a fifth-generation family of barley growers in the heart of the Canterbury Plains. In 2004, Doug and Gabi Michael established Gladfield Malt, a 100% family-owned maltings. A company committed to producing high-quality, hand-crafted, all-natural malts for the World's beer, whisky and homebrews.
OUR VISION & MISSION
“To be the trusted brand of choice, with happy customers who love our premium and accessible malt products.”
Craftsman Grain Growers & Malt Makers
We’re a tight-knit team of heartland grain producers. We’re motivated by your brewing success and driven by a passion for variety and innovation. Meet our malt makers.
— Owners
— Office/Administration/Sales
— Production & Warehousing
The Plains - New Zealand’s Largest Low Lying Farmland
Our grains are grown in the heart of New Zealand’s best arable farmland. A region renowned for its long stretches of stony, loam soil plains, with just the right mix of sunshine and rainfall for bumper harvests.
Gladfield Malt is a 500-acre farm near Dunsandel, about 41 km south of Christchurch city. We grow grains with another 150 contracted growers and employ 10 full-time staff.
Six different grain varieties are carefully tended and harvested at peak quality, to produce 50+ types of malted grains for domestic and export markets.
Quality Assurance for Beverage Audits
Brewers and distillers, ensure you are prepared for the biennial audit of your premises and processes. To help with this, we’ve provided you with the supplier and food safety certificates for our products. Simply choose from the manufacturer’s list below and select the certificate you wish to download.
Gladfield Malt
Blue Lake Milling
Clark Products
Hand-Crafted, High-Quality Canterbury Malts
We select the best quality, locally grown grains and lab test them for their best malting properties. Our malts are clean, plump, evenly formed and free of dust or chaff. Beautifully crunchy, sweet-smelling and great tasting.
The Malting Process
Our state of the art roaster creates the unique colours and flavours brewers and distillers seek. We can smoke your malt to order. For single malt whisky distilling, we produce a peat-smoked malt and a manuka smoked malt and are open to any roasting and smoking customisations for any size distillery or brewery. We provide batch analysis of our malts, so you know precisely what you’re getting before you start brewing or distilling.
OUR TWO SILO SYSTEM
Storing Malts in Our Silos
Guarantee your malt supply with our two-silo bulk malt delivery system for craft breweries. Ensure your malt supply is fresh, high quality and easily available anytime. We provide the 2 x 15-tonne capacity silos to your craft brewery and a personalised schedule of delivery to ensure you never run out.
Save time, effort and space with Gladfield’s Two Silo System. Our silos are weather and rodent-proof and are easily installed outdoors in most locations. Ensure a steady supply of quality malts regardless of shipping delays or supply chain disruption.
Quantities & Shipping
Gladfield Malts come in 1kg, 5kg, 25kg, 500kg, 700kg and 1000kg bulk bags and use unique colour codes for easy identification. We also supply customised packaging sizes and in bulk. We ship our malts on a cost of insurance and freight basis. We can load containers with palletized or loose stacked in 20’ or 40’ containers for shipping or road freight.
