Technical Abstract: The ASBC Malt-4 extract analysis method (Congress Mash) is widely used to evaluate the malting quality performance of experimental malts, as well as for generating standardized worts for analysis of biochemical attributes contributing to malting quality. However, as it is commonly implemented, it requires 25 - 50 g of malt in addition to specialized, often custom-fabricated, instrumentation. These requirements hinder researchers without access to the specialized instrumentation and particularly those with limited sample availability in generating Congress worts for malting quality analysis or other fundamental research studies. Use of one of several commercially available devices allows generation of smaller-scale worts (requiring significantly smaller quantities of malt) that appear to be qualitatively similar to full-scale Congress worts. The ability to generate representative worts from much smaller amounts of malt will facilitate research studies on the mashing process, as well as on basic malting properties and components of breeding lines and populations that may have insufficient sample quantities to support experiments requiring multiple mash cycles, treatments, or replicates.