Fermentable
Malted Spelt — Generic
Generic
Representative The maker publishes no figures for this product, so these are class-typical values instead.
- Maker
- Generic
- Origin
- Various
- Type
- base
- Malt class
- wheat
- Color
- 2.5 °L (5.4 EBC)
- Extract, fine-grind dry basis
- 79.0 %
- Moisture
- 6.0 %
- Diastatic power
- 65 °Lintner
- Suggested max
- 50 % of grist
- Needs mashing
- Yes
Description
An ancient hulled wheat, nutty and faintly sweet with a silkier body than modern wheat. Contains gluten. The hull helps the lauter where malted wheat hinders it, which is much of why Belgian brewers keep coming back to it.