chocolate malt
jgun...@mac.cc.macalstr.edu
to respond to the person inquiring about chocoalte malt. I does not involve
chocolate in anyway. In fact it doesn't even add any flavor to the beer in
question. Chocoalate malt is a malt that is roasted much longer than other
types. It adds a dark color to the beer, but that is mainly all it does.
Chocolate can and has been used as an adjutant(sp) in homebrewing, but I've
never tasted it.
Hope this helps..
J. Gunther
sco...@vax.sbu.ac.uk
Largely true but for one thing. YES, chocolate malt is nothing to do with
chocolate. YES it is a highly roast dark malt which gives beer a dark colour
(it is usually used in stouts, porters, brown ales and mild). BUT to say that
it adds no flavour to Mackeson's ???. Used in even fairly small quantities
chocolate malt will impart a rich, roast, slightly chocolatey/coffeish flavour
to a brew. In Mackeson's it maybe somewhat masked by the lactose sweetness,
but it's definitely there. Mackeson's without the chocolate malt would not
simply be a lighter colour, it wouldn't taste much like mackeson's either.
Chocolate malt is in fact one of the stronger flavoured speciality grains
available to the brewer and is usually detectable even in small amounts - eight
ounces in my last (5 gallon) batch of porter completely dominated. Chew on a
grain of choclate malt THEN tell us it adds no flavour.
Eric Pepke
wrote:
> Chocolate malt is in fact one of the stronger flavoured speciality grains
> available to the brewer and is usually detectable even in small amounts - eight
> ounces in my last (5 gallon) batch of porter completely dominated. Chew on a
> grain of choclate malt THEN tell us it adds no flavour.
Roasted unmalted barley, on the other hand, gives a much stronger flavor
than chocolate (or black) malt for a similar amount of coloring.
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