
Cafe Light Malt - Castle Malting
Château Café Light is a Belgian light coffee malt produced by Castle Malting, delivering a mild, nutty flavour with a unique coffee aroma. Used up to 10% in the grain mix, this malt enriches beer with roasted coffee notes and deep colour, enhancing complexity in styles like stouts, porters, and brown ales.
- Wort Colour: 220-280 EBC
- Usage: Up to 10% in the grain bill
- Beer styles: Dark ales, porters, stouts, and brown ales
Description
What is Château Café Light?
Château Café Light is a specialty malt crafted by Castle Malting, known for its delicate coffee essence and nutty tones, created with a roasting temperature up to 200°C. Designed to be a complementary malt, it adds subtle layers of roasted flavour without overwhelming the base malt profile.
How to Use Château Café Light
Ideal for a range of dark ales, Château Café Light is best used at up to 10% of the total grain mix. This proportion imparts a balanced coffee note and accentuates colour without turning the flavour overly bitter or dark.
Flavour Profile
Expect Château Café Light to introduce a mild coffee and nut aroma with a light touch of roasted character. The malt balances sweetness and bitterness, making it excellent for adding depth to dark beer styles.
Enzymatic Activity
As a lightly roasted malt, Château Café Light has low enzymatic activity, typically used for flavour rather than fermentable sugar contribution.
Mashing
With its specific roast level, Château Café Light is best mashed with base malts to support its flavour characteristics. It integrates smoothly within a standard single infusion mash.
Combining with Other Malts
Château Café Light combines well with caramel or chocolate malts to create complex, multi-layered profiles, especially in rich dark ales and porters.
Benefits of Château Café Light
This malt provides a rich roasted aroma without the sharp bitterness of heavily roasted malts, allowing brewers to craft dark beers with a smooth, balanced profile.
Key Features:
- Moisture Content: Max 4.5%
- Extract (Dry Basis): Min 77.0%
- Wort Colour: 220-280 EBC
- Roasting Temperature: Up to 200°C
- Usage: Up to 10% in the grain bill
- Flavour Profile: Mild coffee, nutty, slightly roasted
- Applications: Dark ales, porters, stouts, and brown ales
- Beer styles: Dark ales, porters, stouts, and brown ales
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