Colorado Malt

[Nate Diggler]

When I put the extract %'s in ProMash, it gave 1.0366 at the pppg... a touch lower than regular 2-row

[DannyW]

Yeah, I think I'd use this kinda like 6-row... to help out high adjunct beers, but maybe not as the sole base malt except for desirably dryer styles.

207 Lintner??? Holy Shit!!! (6-row is 160, others Pales are usually 120)

There must exist different scales for this. The last table I compiled for a bunch of different malts came out like this:
Fawcett M.O. 48
Fawcett Optic 66
Fawcett G.P. 58
MFB Pils 279
MFB Pale 305
MFB Munich 204
MFB Vienna 242

[Nate Diggler]

Maybe the 207 is on the Windisch-Kolbach scale instead of Lintner? In that case, maybe the 57.9 is the Lintner value (35 is needed to self-convert)

Yeah, I think I'd use this kinda like 6-row... to help out high adjunct beers, but maybe not as the sole base malt except for desirably dryer styles.

207 Lintner??? Holy Shit!!! (6-row is 160, others Pales are usually 120)

There must exist different scales for this. The last table I compiled for a bunch of different malts came out like this:
Fawcett M.O. 48
Fawcett Optic 66
Fawcett G.P. 58
MFB Pils 279
MFB Pale 305
MFB Munich 204
MFB Vienna 242

[dontblake]

Notes on the beer:
Well it must have been good because we plowed thru most of the keg on Big brew day. All I have left is one bottle

So, my notes on this stuff:
- Basically used Jamil's APA recipe but only used 10 lb base malt instead of 11.3 (pg 135 of BCS)
- The batch had only .75 lb each of Victory, Munich, and .5lb of wheat and 10 lb of CO malting 2-row, so it was pretty light in color. Promash estimates 6SRM, pretty close I'd say. Certainly a very light pale ale.
- Mash of 152 provided some decent body, but it was still quite clean and crisp.
- OG: 1.052 FG 1.007
- The hoppiness was somewhat restrained, but did provide a nice balance. I'd up the flavor additions next time, but the bittering was pretty darn good.

Bottom line: I'd definitely use the Colorado Malt again as I was quite delighted with it's performance in this beer. And I'd definitely make this beer again, but with a little more hop flavor.
If you're interested in getting some of their product, you should contact CO malting and see if they can arrange a shipment to your LHBS. I know that they have people coming up to CO springs or Castle Rock, so you can probably arrange a drop off if you're in the greater Denver area. Do what you can to support this new Maltster!

Oh, We're going to be featuring some Colorado Malting 2-row as prizes for our competition next week. check out www.indianpeaksalers.org and good luck!

[Herve]

Glad to hear, it looks like a more local source for malt purchases for us in the south west. The reason I asked was they looked new, at least to me and I didn’t have much luck finding anything out about them on the other forums. I had contacted them directly the other day and only just missed them coming to the Phoenix area. They offered to bring some malt with them but I missed out. It looks like they encourage/support home brewers and are willing to deal with us directly. So BadRock just drop them an Email.

[Ridebreck]

Pardon the resurrection of this thread, but just thought that I would add that CMC has significantly increased their offerings. They now have pale, pilsner, red & white wheat, and also offer roasted and toasted malts. There's a big group buy happening right now on HBT. I bought a sack of their pale malt on the last group buy and have been really pleased with how my beers have turned out. Plus, it's nice to have a local maltster that sells direct to homebrewers, and gives discounts on group buys.

[ddgbrewing]

I have been using CMC malt for a while now... our homebrew club buys in bulk and gets a great price. I have had great results with their grain.

[Ridebreck]

ddgbrewing, what club would that be? I've been thinking about joining a club, but didn't know if there was one in the Springs.