Since 1870 we’ve lived and breathed malting. With this passion and expertise, and by combining traditional and modern techniques, we create an impressive range of malted and non-malted products, including several unique and exclusive barley malts.
We have a wide range of malts suitable for brewing and distilling to provide you with the foundations for creating your next beer or whisky.
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Our homebrewers Dark Mild recipes features five different malts that make up the grist for this delicious beer recipe, expect lightly roasted coffee aromas and dark chocolate balanced with a pleasant sweetness and subtle hopping.
BATCH SIZE FERMENTER
25 l
BATCH SIZE BOIL:
27.75 l
ORIGINAL GRAVITY:
1040 SG
FINAL GRAVITY:
1009 SG
IBUs:
18
COLOUR (EBC/SRM):
32 / 16
BREWHOUSE EFFICIENCY:
80%
MASH TEMP:
65°C / 149°F
FERMENTATION TEMP:
23°C / 73.4°F
TARGET ATTENUATION:
79.5%
MASH LIQUOR VOL (LITRES):
11.4
LIQUOR / MASH RATIO:
2.7 : 1
MASH:
60 mins
BOIL:
STAND:
30 mins
BEST ALE
3.448
83
CRYSTAL 240
0.185
4
AMBER
0.092
2
LOW COL CHOCOLATE
0.322
7
WHEAT
0.161
NOTTINGHAM ALE
PILOT
7.94
30
8.5
Start of boil
PHOENIX
6.43
10.5
Middle
GODIVA
6.00
20
7.5
Flame out
FIRST GOLD
60g/hl of a nice spicy T90 dry hop will put a nice twist on the aroma of this malty beer.
With Medium Crystal those intense caramel flavours of thick treacle toffee are developed. To achieve these kinds of flavours the temperature is raised a further step from Light Crystal and the sugars darken further still giving the beer a deep copper hue.
Remember that Crystal Malts have no enzymes or FAN preserved so be careful with the addition rate in your mash. You want to add enough to get the depth of flavour desired, but not so much that you will have issues in fermentation due to a lack of nutrients.
Find out more about our Medium Crystal 240 Malt here.
Another step up in colour into the chocolate range, so called because of the flavour it produces in the final beer, not due to the presence of actual chocolate.
Our Low Colour Chocolate Malt imparts a delicate chocolate aroma and taste much like a mellow cold brew coffee. This malt type lacks the astringency of the more darkly roasted malts.
