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rayfound
Charter Member
Riverside, CA
313 Posts


Pale Chocolate is pure toast. Just nice, well done toast.




Posted 34 days ago.

Matt
Charter Member
Normal, IL
341 Posts


I've never made a beer that used pale chocolate and I didn't enjoy it. I won't make old ale or dry stout without it.




Posted 34 days ago.

Matt
Charter Member
Normal, IL
341 Posts


Anyone have a preferred English malt provider out of the ones ercousin listed? I'm leaning Simpsons but have nothing to back that up with. 






Posted 34 days ago.

mchrispen
Bastrop, TX
485 Posts


I love Simpsons crystal malts personally. I have a bag of TF Golden Promise that I have fallen in love with. 

I just inherited a bag of Gambrinus ESB malt that I haven’t opened yet. So British pale ale styled malt from Canada. Hmmm.





Posted 34 days ago.

KidMoxie
Charter Member
San Elijo Hills, CA
405 Posts


Crisp is the Cadillac of malts, Simpsons is legit too. I've got a bunch of Bairds Maris Otter that I like quite a bit.





Posted 34 days ago.

testingapril
Charter Member
Atlanta, GA
595 Posts


I'm with KidMoxie, Crisp is the jam. I'm not a fan of Bairds Crystals. They taste very harsh in the munching phase, so they've just been sitting on my specialty grain shelf and I keep buying more Crisp when I need it.




Posted 34 days ago.

homebrewdad
Charter Member
Birmingham, AL
2480 Posts


I have yet to purchase any crisp malt that I have not loved.





Posted 34 days ago.

ercousin
Charter Member
Toronto, Canada
77 Posts


My vote is Simpsons, simply because of how highly the head brewer from Oscar Blues spoke about them when I was visiting in Colorado. He said he is obsessed with ingredient quality and thinks Simpsons is best. He was also the one that introduced me to Aramis hops, like Saaz*3 he said.




Posted 34 days ago.

ingoogni
nl
314 Posts


Can you guys get Warminster Malts? Try their Pale Chocolate.




Posted 34 days ago.
Edited 34 days ago by ingoogni

ercousin
Charter Member
Toronto, Canada
77 Posts


Looks like Cargil carries some:http://www.cargillfoods.com/specialty-malts/brewing/base-malts/index.jsp

I've never heard of them though, so probably not regularly stocked anywhere?




Posted 34 days ago.

Matt
Charter Member
Normal, IL
341 Posts


Doesn't look like it has their pale chocolate unfortunately



Posted 34 days ago.

ingoogni
nl
314 Posts


Ah, it's called Chocolate Low Colour, but I don't see it in the linked page(s)




Posted 34 days ago.

testingapril
Charter Member
Atlanta, GA
595 Posts


That Warminster Brown Malt at 35-50L sounds awesome. I've never found a brown malt that low. It might actually have some diastatic power, but the spec sheet doesn't list it if so.




Posted 34 days ago.

Matt
Charter Member
Normal, IL
341 Posts


This is actually one of the things that worries me about starting a brewery, managing your grain sources and trying to make that compromise between better beer and profit margins to upgrade to make better beer. Obviously, if Warminister makes a noticeably better brown malt, you'd want that, but sourcing it would be more difficult than, say Bairds. 



Posted 34 days ago.

ingoogni
nl
314 Posts


Their Brown and Amber are quite light, their Brown and TF's Amber get quite close in colour. I have not compared the two directly yet.

Sourcing malt is indeed a problem, I need small amounts of TF Amber (the most burnt of UK Ambers), almost impossible to get a good deal and no continental maltser makes them.




Posted 34 days ago.

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