Gladfield American Ale Malt is a versatile base malt that brings a clean, well-balanced malt character to your beer. It offers a light, sweet malt flavor with a subtle hint of breadiness, making it ideal for a wide range of ale styles, from pale ales to IPAs. This malt ensures a solid foundation for your brews, providing excellent fermentability and a rich, golden color. Use it to achieve a crisp, refreshing finish with a smooth malt backbone.
Base Malt
Gladfield’s American Ale Malt is perfect for brewers who have found that our regular Ale Malt adds too much of a malty, toasted flavour profile to certain beer styles. This base malt has been made from plump low protein Autumn barley varieties and then subjected to our traditional long cool germination period. The grains are then kilned using a special recipe that imparts a typical Ale colour for a cleaner, less toasted flavour. When brewed, this malt produces a vibrant, clean, yet solid hop‑forward malt profile and is perfect for producing American-style beers. The American Ale Malt offers the brewer scope for innovation and the ability to create beers that are full of character and sophistication.
Use: Base malt for use in hop-forward beers.
Rate: Up to 100%
Packaging options: 1kg, 5kg, 25kg, 500kg, 1 tonne bags and bulk.
Gladfield Malt Best Before Statement
| EBC Test Method | Specification | Typical Analysis |
|---|---|---|
| Moisture (max) % | 5 | 3.5 |
| Extract – Fine Dry min% | 79 | 80.5 |
| Extract – Coarse Dry | 79.5 | |
| Extract – Fine As-is | 78 | |
| Extract – Coarse As-is | 77 | |
| Saccharification time | 10 | 10 |
| Odour | Normal | |
| Wort Colour | 4.5 – 5.5 | 5 |
| Total Nitrogen (%) | 1.45 – 1.75 | 1.65 |
| Kolbach Index | 35 – 41 | 38 |
| pH | 5.7 – 6 | 6 |
| Diastatic Power (WK) min. | 160 | 200 |
| FAN (mg/l) min | 120 | 135 |
| Friability (min) % | 85 | 91 |
| Glassy Corns (max) % | 2 | 0.5 |
| P.U.G. (max) % | 5 | 1.5 |
