For the manufacture of high-quality baked goods, one depends on high-quality ingredients and there are as many requirements as there are businesses. No matter whether malts, sourdoughs, improvers or mixes – as your partner for aroma and taste, we serve as your number one idea provider. At the same time, we leave all the space you wish for your individual creativity. By means of our malthouses, sourdough production, our own agricultural trade and a comprehensive service package, we provide you with know-how from the mere grain to the finished piece of baked goods – and beyond.
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The raw material malt is a natural one. With flavouring characteristics such as caramel, roasted or spicy, it can cater for a wide range of applications in achieving a distinctive taste. But malt is capable of more! In addition to improved dough development, using malt leads to an attractive crust and crumb as well as an optimised freshkeeping of baked goods. This holds true for bread and rolls just as much as for confectionery baked goods!
What is extraordinary about IREKS: As a manufacturer of baking ingredients, we possess our own malt and malt extract production and have hence every processing stage in our hands. Rye, wheat, spelt and barley make the basis of most various malt products: in flour form and paste-like, liquid, light or dark-coloured.
Using sourdough offers advantages: ideal dough processing properties, invariably high baked goods quality and a taste full of aroma. That is why IREKS has turned towards sourdough about 100 years ago. Today, we manufacture our sourdough based on this long-term experience according to the traditional three-stage method. Selected lactic acid bacteria and a strictly monitored sourdough production lead to ideal conditions when it comes to the desired fermentation.
Beside the manufacture of tried and tested variants like wheat, rye or spelt sourdoughs, IREKS is always thinking up new ideas. Rediscovered raw materials such as green spelt or buckwheat produce remarkable sourdough varieties and taste adventures.
The proper product for your concept! Compensation of harvest-related variations with regard to flour quality or optimisation of baking and processing characteristics are just a couple of starting points in our mission to make good things even better. In addition to sourdough and malt products, IREKS offers manyfold mixes and improvers, suitable for your individual demands. Thanks to our batch-oriented production, we can react to specific needs in a flexible way. In this way, we manufacture a variety of products with special features.