Fermentable
Château Wheat 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
- 491.0 °L (1300.0 EBC)
- Extract, fine-grind dry basis
- 78.0 %
- Moisture
- 4.5 %
- Diastatic power
- 0 °Lintner
- Suggested max
- 20 % of grist
- Needs mashing
- No — can be steeped
Description
Wheat roasted to 1200-1400 EBC, which colors as hard as a black malt and argues far less because there is no husk in it to turn acrid. At 78 % it also keeps eight points more extract than the barley black. Up to 20 % in a schwarzbier or a black IPA.