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English chocolate malt provides color with more smoothness and less roast character than typical US chocolate malt. Brewery.org says this on it's malt 101 page
Chocolate Malt - ( Brown malt) 400 L
British Chocolate malt is ideal
for British Porters and Brown or Mild Ales and even Stouts. It's a
little darker than domestic Chocolate malt yet it ...
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In general, darker malts have more concentrated flavor, since the darker compounds created in Maillard reactions and/or caramelization (pyrolysis) and carbonization at high temperatures have a stronger taste.
However, although color is a significant indicator, it's only a one dimensional indicator, and doesn't capture all the details of flavor. For ...
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In my experience there's no effect on the quality of the beer, and I've also found DME to be the preferred ingredient if I have a choice, because of the convenience. You'll also probably find a bigger variety of DME (sometimes even specific to a single grain) at your brew shop because it's the more popular of the two, so developing your own recipes is very ...
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I've not brewed with it, but from the Weyermann specs, it's
13L (11.8-13.7L)
mild, restrained notes of caramel
honey-colored hue
use up to 30% in Belgian Blonde, Amber, Tripel, Dubbel
Given that it's 500g and it's playing against Vienna, the color is probably less significant than the flavor. To get the restrained caramel, you could probably get away ...
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They will not taste the same. Its like comparing pale chocolate (200L) to black patent (500+L).
There are indeed a range of chocolate malts out there, especially of the English variety.
You can use brewing software or a color calculator online to help match it up.
If the recipe you want to brew also has SRM along with its supposed OG, FG etc etc, fill in ...
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Really hard to tell the difference just based on Lovibond.. You can have 2 different 350L US chocolate malt that taste very different to each other. Reason being 350L only tells you the finished darkness of the malt, but it does not tell you how its kilned ie, short time in high heat, or long time in a staggered temperature schedule. It all makes a big ...
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