Black Malt - Black Isle
Black Isle Black Malt is ideal for intensely dark beer styles. It gives your beer a dry-roasted cocoa bean flavour and is less astringent and more friable than roasted barley.
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Bitter
Nuts
Toasted
Coffee
Our black malt is produced by roasting kiln-dried malt to temperatures of up to 240°C for slightly longer periods of time than regular chocolate malt. Water is used to extend the roasting time and for quenching and cooling to prevent combustion.
Black Isle Black Malt is ideal for intensely dark beer styles. It gives your beer a dry-roasted cocoa bean flavour and is less astringent and more friable than roasted barley. It has no enzymatic potential.
This malt is produced at our Maltings in Knapton, North Yorkshire.
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Specifications

Bitter
Nuts
Toasted
Coffee
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| Origin | United-Kingdom |
| Manufacturer | Pauls Malt |
| Variety | Black Malt |
| IOB - Moisture % | 4% Max |
| IOB - Extract | 277 lt°/kg Min |
| IOB - Total nitrogen | - |
| IOB - Soluble nitrogen ratio | - |
| IOB - Colour | 1200 - 1400 |
| EBC - Moisture | 4% Max |
| EBC - Extract | 73% Min |
| EBC - Kolbach index | - |
| EBC - Colour | 1200 - 1550 |
| EBC - Total protein | - |
| Malt Type | Coloured |
| Frequent styles | Porter, Stout |
| Most important aromas | Bitter, Coffee, Nuts, Toasted |
| Inclusion % | 3 - 12% |