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.
There is nothing more we love than talking to brewers and distillers so if you have any questions, or would like to arrange a call with a member of our team, please feel free to get in touch – we would love to hear from you!
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.
Our Best Ale Malt is the workhorse of many a brewery and is at home in a variety of beer styles. The 2-row winter barley varieties that go into our Best Ale have been planted in the light, sandy soils of North Norfolk. We source the lowest nitrogen barley from our farmers.
During malting, high cast moistures and a balance of optimal germination time and temperature results in an even, well modified malt with a rich colour and balanced sweet, malt flavour which is ideally suited to ale brewing.
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.
This is the palest malt made using a roasting technique. After conventional kilning, the malt is dry and pale in colour hence it is known as “white malt”. It is transferred to our Speciality Malt Plant and passes through the roasting column where the flavour is transformed through the application of heat. The temperatures used through the column determine the colour and flavour of the roasted malt.
Amber Malt is typified by a dry, toasted biscuit finish and can add an amber hue to the beer.
Find out more about Amber 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.
