Fermentable
Gateway — Mecca Grade Estate Malt
Mecca Grade Estate Malt
Representative The maker publishes no figures for this product, so these are class-typical values instead.
- Maker
- Mecca Grade Estate Malt
- Origin
- United States
- Type
- base
- Malt class
- base-pilsner
- Color
- 1.8 °L (3.6 EBC)
- Extract, fine-grind dry basis
- 74.0 %
- Moisture
- 5.0 %
- Diastatic power
- 60 °Lintner
- Suggested max
- 50 % of grist
- Needs mashing
- Yes
Description
Wind-malt: dried on moving air rather than in a heated kiln, and stopped deliberately under-modified. Very pale and raw-grainy, with the protein still largely intact — a body and foam malt that also brings a distinctly rustic flavor.