Fermentable
Château Black — Castle Malting
Castle Malting
Spec sheet The maker publishes these figures for this exact product.
- Maker
- Castle Malting
- Origin
- Belgium
- Type
- roasted
- Malt class
- roasted
- Color
- 506.9 °L (1350.0 EBC)
- Extract, fine-grind dry basis
- 70.0 %
- Moisture
- 4.0 %
- Diastatic power
- 0 °Lintner
- Suggested max
- 10 % of grist
- Needs mashing
- No — can be steeped
Description
Black malt in the plain sense: roasted to the far end for color and a sharp, dry, faintly burnt bitterness. Used in small fractions for the last shade of a stout or a dark Belgian, where a debittered malt would give color and say nothing.