Fermentable
Château Special Belgium — Castle Malting
Castle Malting
Spec sheet The maker publishes these figures for this exact product.
- Maker
- Castle Malting
- Origin
- Belgium
- Type
- crystal-caramel
- Malt class
- crystal
- Color
- 109.4 °L (290.0 EBC)
- Extract, fine-grind dry basis
- 74.0 %
- Moisture
- 6.0 %
- Diastatic power
- 0 °Lintner
- Suggested max
- 10 % of grist
- Needs mashing
- No — can be steeped
Description
Castle’s answer to Special B, and the same job: raisin, prune and dark toffee concentrated hard enough that ten percent is the ceiling. It is what makes a dubbel taste of dried fruit rather than of caramel.