Fermentable
Black Malt — Generic
Generic
Representative The maker publishes no figures for this product, so these are class-typical values instead.
- Maker
- Generic
- Origin
- Various
- Type
- roasted
- Malt class
- roasted
- Color
- 500.0 °L (1323.8 EBC)
- Extract, fine-grind dry basis
- 70.0 %
- Moisture
- 4.5 %
- Diastatic power
- 0 °Lintner
- Suggested max
- 5 % of grist
- Needs mashing
- No — can be steeped
Description
Roasted to the far end, where the flavor is ash and espresso and the job is mostly color. Sold as black malt and as patent malt, which is the same thing under the 1817 patent that named it. Two or three per cent turns a beer black; five is as far as most grists go.