I don't want to pay shipping this time around and the home-brew place
that carries malt powders can't tell me if the malt they carry is
diastatic or non-diastatic.

The health-food stores I've been to want to sell me malt syrup, which
I already have, but don't think it is the same as malt extract. [Is
it?]

I start searching the web for options . . .

And I find a thread on thefreshloaf.com about making it yourself.
Sprout some barley. dry it. Roast it. Grind it.
http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/656...diastatic-malt

I've got a sprouter or two- and even have a fresh bag of naked
barley-- so I'm going to give it a try.

Here's a youtube video-
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HauYECAEQ8I

Maybe next week I'll have some malt powder.

Jim