Fermentable
Alamosa Smoked Malt — Colorado Malting Company
Colorado Malting Company
Representative The maker publishes no figures for this product, so these are class-typical values instead.
- Maker
- Colorado Malting Company
- Origin
- United States
- Type
- kilned-toasted
- Malt class
- base-pale
- Color
- 4.0 °L (9.4 EBC)
- Extract, fine-grind dry basis
- 78.0 %
- Moisture
- 4.5 %
- Diastatic power
- 55 °Lintner
- Suggested max
- 60 % of grist
- Needs mashing
- Yes
Description
Smoked over cottonwood, the tree that grows along the upper Rio Grande and gave Alamosa its name. Nothing like the beech a German smoked malt is built on: drier and greener, and their own rather than borrowed. Ten to twenty percent carries a beer.