Crystal malt sweetness is a key characteristic of several styles of beer, most notably in pale ales and related styles. Crystal malts also add color to your beer. Crystal malts are rated according to their color depth. Pale malts, by comparison, are usually rated between 1. On the low end of their color range they look only slightly darker than pale malts. As you move up the color range they appear more reddish. The darkest crystal malts are nearly brown. The color of the crystal malt is a function of how it was prepared.
Crystal malts are made from barley grain in a process similar to that of making pale malts. As with pale malts, the grains are steeped and germinated. As a result, the starch interiors of the barley grains are broken into sugars by amylase enzymes in the barley. After stewing, the grains are kilned. Kilning dries the grain, darkens the husk and caramelizes some of the sugar inside. Crystal malt is used in many styles of beer. The amount of crystal malt used varies with the style of beer.
Pale ales, bitters or ESBs may contain up to 20 percent crystal malt. For example, a beer may be made with ten pounds of grain, two pounds of which are crystal malt. Lagers such as Octoberfests or Vienna lagers may contain up to 15 percent crystal malt. Darker ales, such as porters and stouts, may also contain crystal malt along with more darkly roasted grains. See the box at right for some helpful guidelines to using crystal malt.
The more crystal malt used in a recipe, the darker the color. Since crystal malts are commonly rated in degrees Lovibond, you can calculate how much color you are adding to your beer.
HCU stands for homebrew color units. Measuring actual SRM requires the use of a spectrophotometer. HCUs only measure the amount of grain color added to your beer. But many things that affect beer color do not enter into the HCU equation. For example, extended boil times darken the wort. Oxidizing hot wort will also darken it. In contrast, fermentation decreases wort color.
Also, different mash or steeping conditions will extract different amounts of color from the grain. Another limitation of HCUs is that they only measure the amount of color, not the hue.
Nothing like a dry Saison but still dry enough. It leaves a nice mouthfeel but drys the beer out to a reasonable level. The SNPA clone I brew occasionally is quite similar to that linked recipe and doesn't turn out cloying, and I use medium crystal in it The main difference other than that which I can see is the Perle hops are added at 30 minutes in mine instead of The grain percentage is pretty much the same.
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NewBrews Posted November 20, Mark D Pirate Posted November 20, Where are these recipes coming from? In my red ipa there's only 2. Big difference between crystal and spec malts. ChristinaS1 Posted November 20, Cheers, Christina. Otto Von Blotto Posted November 20, Cheers, John. Thanks for the replies. Specialty malts may be the answer, is caramalt a specialty malt or a crystal?
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Recipe Specifications Boil Size: 7. I'd eliminate the 80L, cut the 60L by half and use 4 oz of L to restore the color. I'd cut both crystal malts back to 8 oz. Then boost up your color with a tad bit of a dark grain such as debittered carafa II, or pale chocolate malt. You don't want it to be too sweet. So I would I would second the recommendation of 8 to 10 ounces per crystal malt.
Joined Oct 14, Messages Reaction score 19 Location socal. I never add more than 8 ounces of any kind of crystal aka caramel malts. But am not really in to sweet brews. I just had a sample of this at BJCP class after not drinking it in ages.
Crystal is going to give you sweetness and some caramel, but not quite the same thing. I wish I hadn't done it. I find it to be sickly sweet.
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