Deborah wrote:
> Hi, I am a bread novice in Hobart Tas, looking for somewhere to buy
> wholewheat flour for breadmaking. Does anyone know of a retail outlet
> or wholesaler who will sell small lots? Or a mail-order company. If
> possible I would love to use organic wheat. Please email me if you have
> any ideas, I'd appreciate it.
> Deb
>

You may want to try Bio-Distributors in Sheffield, Tasmania.

http://www.biodistributors.com.au/index.htm

Wholemeal Flour - Stoneground - Kialla 5 kg $8.70

A few years back, I lived in NZ for a year, in the Nelson
area on South Island, and I tried to recreate the whole
wheat loaf there that I'm accustomed to baking here in the
U.S. where I use hard red spring wheat from the Great
Plains. NZ doesn't seem to import wheat from North America,
and I had a hard time finding good whole wheat bread flour
there. After much calling around, I was able eventually to
locate two good flours that I combined into a loaf that was
quite different from my American whole wheat loaf but very
tasty and nutritious nevertheless.

One kind of flour that went into it was Kialla flour, an
organic, stoneground, wholemeal plain flour milled from
white hard wheat grown in Queensland. Its taste is quite
different from that of American hard red spring wheat flour
but it has a high protein content, handles well and produces
well-rising loaves and is of good quality nutritionally -
altogether an excellent flour.

The other kind of flour that went into it was Zentrofan
flour, an Australian soft wheat flour that was stone-milled
in NZ in an innovative German centrifuge mill (Zentrofan)
which generates little heat and minimizes the degradation of
nutrients during milling.

I'm not sure you would find Zentrofan flour in Tasmania
under that name but the Kialla flour you ought to be able to
find. If all else fails you could contact the mill and ask
them for local suppliers of Kialla flour in Hobart.

Graham McNally and John Egan
Kialla Pure Foods, Pty Ltd.
Greenmount, Queensland
Ph: 07 4697 0300 Fax: 07 4697 1261
email:

Good luck!

Robert