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hopefully brew a all powells ale this weekend and report back. The taste test will need to wait until its ready but i recall it was nice (the ale was my fav.)
Powell's Malt
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I recently did two small test batches comparing two malts I hadn't tried before; Powell's Ale Malt and Simpson's Maris Otter.
Both were brewed to 3.7-3.8% abv and were a simple SMASH with 20 IBUs of EKG.
Powell's came out very clean and pale, a nice simple beer with nowhere to hide flaws.
For me there was not much in the way of residual malt flavour compared to the Maris Otter (which blew my mind).
I can see Powells would be great in hop driven beers, but I decided to buy a sack of Maris Otter for my mainly english style ales.
That said, the test recipe I used was very simple, and I bet you could make a delightful beer with some specialty malts thrown in for malt backbone.
Efficiency was a little lower with the Powells, with an OG of 3pts below the maris otter.
Both were brewed to 3.7-3.8% abv and were a simple SMASH with 20 IBUs of EKG.
Powell's came out very clean and pale, a nice simple beer with nowhere to hide flaws.
For me there was not much in the way of residual malt flavour compared to the Maris Otter (which blew my mind).
I can see Powells would be great in hop driven beers, but I decided to buy a sack of Maris Otter for my mainly english style ales.
That said, the test recipe I used was very simple, and I bet you could make a delightful beer with some specialty malts thrown in for malt backbone.
Efficiency was a little lower with the Powells, with an OG of 3pts below the maris otter.
