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Castle Malting

Castle Malting is in the Malteries Soufflet family of brands. Established in 1868 in close vicinity to the splendid castle of Beloeil, Castle Malting is the oldest malting company in Belgium and one of the oldest malt producers in the world, renowned for its individuality, as well as for its uncompromising standards of malt quality. 

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The Castle Malting® production process combines the traditional over nine days malting technique with a revolutionary roasting technology. It is highly efficient without losing its quality focus.

Traditional and modern expertise and the application of the best environmentally friendly practices result in an excellent product in terms of quality, with minimization of any adverse environmental impact.

Results for Castle Malting

    • Castle Malting Château Pilsen 6-Row

      Castle Malting Château Pilsen 6-Row

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      The lightest in color, this malt is well-modified and is perfectly suited for single-step infusion or decoction mashing. Compared to Château Pilsen 2RS, Château Pilsen 6RW has a more important diastatic power. Our Château Pilsen malt carries a strong, sweet malt flavor and has a sufficient enzymatic power to be used as base malt.

    • Castle Malting Château Special Belgium®

      Castle Malting Château Special Belgium®

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      Is used to produce a deep red to dark brown-black colour and fuller body. Unique flavour and aroma. Gives much colour and raisin-like flavour. Imparts a rich malty taste and a hint of nut and plum flavour. May substitute Chocolate and Black malt if bitterness is not desired.

    • Castle Malting Chateau Cara Honey

      Castle Malting Chateau Cara Honey

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      This malt gives a reddish hue to beers and hints of caramel, toffee and bread. It intensifies the beer’s body. This malt also promotes head formation and retention.

    • Castle Malting Château Vienna

      Castle Malting Château Vienna

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      Imparts a richer flavour of malt and grain than Pilsen malt and adds subtle aromas of caramel and toffee. Château Vienna malt is kilned at slightly higher temperatures than Pilsen Malt. As a result Château Vienna malt gives a deeper golden colour to the beer increasing at the same time its body and fullness. Due to the higher kilning temperature, the enzyme activity of Château Vienna malt is slightly lower than that of Pilsen Malt. Nevertheless, Château Vienna malt has a sufficient enzymatic activity to be used in combination with large proportion of specialty malts.

    • Castle Malting Château Cara Blond®

      Castle Malting Château Cara Blond®

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      Château Cara Blond® imparts a mild caramel-sweet aroma adding golden colour to beer. A distinguishing characteristic of all caramel malts is glassiness. This glassy endosperm creates the desirable non-fermentable components that give true caramel malt the ability to contribute mouthfeel, head, head retention, and extended beer stability.

    • Castle Malting Château Arome

      Castle Malting Château Arome

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      Château Arome Nature malt provides a rich malty aroma and flavor to amber and dark lager beers. Compared to other traditional colored malts, Château Arôme Nature has higher diastatic power and imparts a smoother bitterness.

    • Castle Malting Château Monastique

      Castle Malting Château Monastique

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      Château Monastique® malt is a Abbey-style pale malt. Gives a strong taste of cooked bread, nuts and fruit. Château Monastique® malt has a bitter flavour which mellows on ageing, and can be quite intensely flavoured. Château Monastique® malt is typically used as a small proportion of the grist in the production of beers requiring some substantial depth of colour.

    • Castle Malting Château Pale Ale®

      Castle Malting Château Pale Ale®

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      Usually used as a base malt or in combination with Pilsen 2RS malt to impart a richer malt flavour and additional colour. Being deeper in colour, this malt can add a golden hue to the wort. It is used with strong yeasts to produce amber and bitter beers. Château Pale Ale malt is kilned longer and is usually better modified, providing a more pronounced flavour than Pilsen 2RS. The enzymatic activity of Château Pale Ale malt is sufficient when used with large proportion of non-enzymatic specialty malts.

    • Castle Malting Château Cara Terra®

      Castle Malting Château Cara Terra®

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      This malt gives the beer a copper-brown hue. It brings intense flavors of caramel, toffee and bread, as well as notes of nuts. It contributes to a fuller body. Suitable for beer styles such as Bohemian Lagers, Porter, Stout, but also Bock, Dark Lager, and others. Up to 15% of the mash bill.

    • Castle Malting Château Pilsen 2-Row

      Castle Malting Château Pilsen 2-Row

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      The lightest in color, this malt is well-modified and is perfectly suited for single-step infusion or decoction mashing. Our Château Pilsen malt carries a strong, sweet malt flavor and has a sufficient enzymatic power to be used as base malt.

    • Castle Malting Château Acide

      Castle Malting Château Acide

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      Château Acid malt improves the performance of the hydrolytic enzymes and provides a better mash working. It also intensifies the fermentation by adjusting the pH level. Acid malt enhances a well-rounded taste in your beer and gives stability to its head.

    • Castle Malting Château Melano

      Castle Malting Château Melano

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      Very aromatic, with an intense malty flavor. Gives fullness and roundness to the beer color, improves flavor stability, and promotes red color in your beer. Gives beer a fuller body. This specialty variety has been described as “turbo Munich”.

    • Castle Malting Château Biscuit®

      Castle Malting Château Biscuit®

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      Château Biscuit® malt produces a very pronounced "toasty" finish in the beer. Imparts a warm bread and biscuit-like aroma and flavour. Promotes a light to medium warm brown colour of the mash. This malt is used to improve the roasted flavour and aroma that characterize ales and lagers lending the subtle properties of black and chocolate malts. No enzymes. Must be mashed with malts having a surplus of diastatic power.

    • Castle Malting Château Munich

      Castle Malting Château Munich

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      Rich, golden malt. Provides a modest colour increase toward a nice, golden-orange colour. Adds a pronounced grainy malty flavour to many beer styles without affecting the foam stability and body. Is also used in small quantities in combination with Château Pilsen 2RS to produce light colour beers, improving the malty flavour and giving the beer a richer colour. Enhances the taste of character beers.

    • Castle Malting Château Cara Gold

      Castle Malting Château Cara Gold

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      Château Cara Gold® malt imparts a strong caramel-sweet aroma and unique toffee-like and brown sugar flavour, adding a rich amber colour to beer. A distinguishing characteristic of all caramel malts is glassiness. This glassy endosperm creates the desirable non-fermentable components that give true caramel malt the ability to contribute mouthfeel, head, head retention, and extended beer stability.

    • Castle Malting Château Munich Light ®

      Castle Malting Château Munich Light ®

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      Rich, golden malt. Provides a modest colour increase toward a nice, golden-orange colour. Adds a pronounced grainy malty flavour to many beer styles without affecting the foam stability and body. Is also used in small quantities in combination with Château Pilsen 2RS to produce light colour beers, improving the malty flavour and giving the beer a richer colour. Enhances the taste of character beers.

    • Castle Malting Château Cara Ruby

      Castle Malting Château Cara Ruby

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      Château Cara Ruby® malt imparts a rich caramel-sweet aroma and a toffee-like flavour, adding light amber to reddish colour to beer. A distinguishing characteristic of all caramel malts is glassiness. This glassy endosperm creates the desirable non-fermentable components that give true caramel malt the ability to contribute mouthfeel, head, head retention, and extended beer stability.