hits
counter
foodfacts.com
Keyword
Ingredients
UPC Code
Recipes
Search to Compare - Search to Compare
Home
Health Score
Products
Blog
Sign Up
    Follow us on Twitter   Like us on Facebook     |   Log in
< Return to Ingredient Glossary
Legend:
Avoid/Controversial

Pale Malt

Pale malt is the basis of pale ale and bitter and the precursor in production of most other British beer malts. Dried at temperatures sufficiently low to preserve all the brewing enzymes in the grain, it is light in color and, today, the cheapest barley malt available due to mass production. It can be used as a base malt, that is, as the malt constituting the majority of the grist, in many styles of beer. Typically, English pale malts are kilned at 95-105 °C. Color ASBC 2-3/EBC 5-7. Diastatic power (DP) 45 °Lintner.
This ingredient is in 4 items in our database including...