Fermentable
BEST Chit Malt — Bestmalz
Bestmalz
Spec sheet The maker publishes these figures for this exact product.
- Maker
- Bestmalz
- Origin
- Germany
- Type
- base
- Malt class
- base-pilsner
- Color
- 1.4 °L (2.5 EBC)
- Extract, fine-grind dry basis
- 50.0 %
- Moisture
- 4.9 %
- Diastatic power
- 76 °Lintner
- Suggested max
- 15 % of grist
- Needs mashing
- Yes
Description
Barley malted only far enough to chit, so it keeps the high-molecular protein and the starter enzymes a fully modified malt has spent. Brewers use it to firm up foam and to counterbalance a very well modified grist; extract is low by design, at half what a pilsner malt yields.