Let Castle Malting Chateau Cara Blond add aroma, flavour, colour, body, and head retention to your brew. Erstwhile Castle Caramel Pilsner, its Belgian crystal malt with bright colour and a gentle caramel-sweet aroma. Cara Blond is versatile speciality malt compatible with all brewing methods (all-grain, partial grain and extract) and a multitude of beer styles. However, its mild characteristics make it ideal for light lagers, light ales, alcohol deficient beers and white beers.
These grains are a result of steeping, germination, stewing, and drying. It’s mildly cooked to transform starches into fermentable sugars through enzymatic action. Certain sugars are caramelized as the malt achieves its characteristic colour. The need for mashing crystal malt is eliminated outright, saving you a lot of time, effort and cleaning up. Plus, cooking ensures a small percentage of sugars will endure the fermentation and add sweetness to the brew.
Per Malt review, brewers count on Cara Blond to derive a gentle caramel-sweet aroma, golden hue and delicate sweetness. Using lighter crystal malts for around 20% of the grain bill is standard practice for some brewers. Typical of all caramel malts, Cara Blond has glassiness as a defining trait. The wanted non-fermentable components are created that guarantee head retention, delectable taste and beer stability – a few desirable characteristics of any brew.
Chateau Cara Blond is one of the many offerings of Castle Malting, one of the world’s oldest and most reputable malting plants. The malting plant leverages malting traditions perfected over centuries and bold, innovative protocols to deliver the finest malts that money can buy.
