What Base Pale Malt To Buy?

[lowzunyee]

I am wanting to buy a large 25kg bag of base pale malt to save a bit of dosh.
But am confused what to buy. I do Ales in the Summer & Lagers in the Winter.
And I am wondering is there a generic all-rounder that will do both.
If so, will all my beers taste the same?
Cheers

 

[amiddler]

I mainly use Weyermann Pilsner as my base. Others will have there opinion. As for taste it depends alot on what yeast you use as to the overall flavour, so it does the best of both worlds.

Drew

 

[scooter_59]

I am wanting to buy a large 25kg bag of base pale malt to save a bit of dosh.
But am confused what to buy. I do Ales in the Summer & Lagers in the Winter.
And I am wondering is there a generic all-rounder that will do both.
If so, will all my beers taste the same?
Cheers

Do you brew with cans or all grain ? If cans I can then understand your question , if all grain then what pale malt do you buy .

The answer to the generic question any pale malt will do . The Aussie Joe White Pale Malt is about the cheapest malt to purchase and is a good all rounder for ales . My last Lager had pilsener , munich, vienna ,crystal and carapils in it . So it depends on what style you want to make .


Cheers
Leachim

 

[haysie]

Joe white trad pilsner will save you dosh and do a good lager, mAkes a good base for an ale but you would be best adding a specialty malt or two,
edit Joe white pilsner not trad ale, this ahb iPhone stuff ain't eazy

 

[Nick JD]

Any base malt will do unless you're making a beer with very little spec malts: where you need the character of the base malt to be forefront.

 

[mckenry]

I use JW export Pils as base for all beers.

 

[QldKev]

Go check out the recipe database. Pick the ones you want to make and see what the base malts they are using, then that's the one you buy.

QldKev

 

[DJR]

+1 JW Export Pils

 

[Sammus]

Any base malt will do unless you're making a beer with very little spec malts: where you need the character of the base malt to be forefront.

+1. Whaddaya know, something of Nicks I agree with wholeheartedly... it had to happen one day eh?

 

[Bribie G]

If you are in QLD and use Craftbrewer for your grains then you are in Barrett Burston territory. Their Ale Malt is great for all styles including lagers, but if you are a real lager nazi then their Pilsener is good as well and could be tricked up with spec malts to make ales.

 

[manticle]

I would go with any pale Australian malt. As you learn more about what you are doing, make the same recipe using a more expensive malt (Weyerman, dingemans, Simpsons etc as appropriate) and see where to go from there.

I tend to use regional malts for all my brews now and love them (German/Belgian pilsner malt for european style, UK malt for UK style etc) but I made plenty of good beers using Joe White and I still use JW ale and pilsner for various brews. 25 kg is only 5 standard brews. Start basic, learn and expand.

 

[lowzunyee]

Thank you guys for all your help. Appreciate it

 

[Tony]

I will give the thumbs up for BB ale malt!
Get a bag of BB pilsner malt for your lagers and your set

 

[user 10246]

Hi Toeknee h34r:

 

[flano]

I have been using JW traditional ale in 25kg bags as my base.

Next time I will try the JW Export pilsener though....It is cheaper I have noticed .