Malt Flavours

Characteristics by malt type

Caramalt Crystal up to colour 110 EBC, Caramalt
Chocolate Chocolate, Black
Coffee Very dark Crystal
Treacle Crystal over 240 EBC colour
Smoky Smoked/Peated
Phenolic Peated
Cereal Wheat, Ale
Sweet Ale, Amber, Munich
Burnt Black, Roasted Barley or Malt
Nutty Caramalt, Ale
Green Lager, High Enzyme, Diastatic
Sulphury DMS, Lager, Sulphitic and Sulphidic
Solvent Should not be present in any malt type
Toffee Crystal up to colour 240 EBC

Flavour Wheel

Malt sensory analysis

Although malt tasting is not currently any part of the malt specification, it does offer possibilities to differentiate both positive and negative flavours. Conventional malt analysis may suggest that malts are identical however their flavours could well differ significantly.

We use a method to fully describe the profile of malt using a ‘porridge’ made by grinding whole malts with a small amount of water which helps in the tasting process.

The malt flavour wheel has allowed us to create distinct flavour profiles for the wide range of malts and malted ingredients we produce.

Available pack sizes

Crystal Malt 400

Muntons crystal malts are available in a range of colours and flavour intensities, offering the brewer a wonderful palate of ingredients to craft the beer they wish to create. Crystal Malts are made by transferring germinating ‘green’ malt to a roasting drum where a partial starch conversion takes place within the grain, creating sweet, ‘crystallised’ or ‘caramelised’ malt sugars. By selecting the correct crystal malt the brewer can introduce interesting colour hues as well as fruit, toffee, coffee, treacle and even chocolate notes to beers. 

Applications: 

Suitable beers include IPA, bitter, mild, stouts and porters. Copper/red/amber in colour with sweet toffee, biscuit, nutty, malty flavours that increase as colour increases. Starches are crystallised. 

Typical Analysis:

 

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Meet the brewing and distilling team

Joseph Fifield
Head of Brewing Malt Sales
Global
“If I were a beer, I’d be a milk chocolate stout, full bodied and sweet, but with a rugged appearance.”
David Hannah
Head of Distilling Malt Sales
Global
“If I were a beer, I would be a straight up, flagship IPA. It would be reliable, consistent, full of flavour and probably a little louder than other beers”

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