Has anyone heard of cafe malt?

[Deebee]

hi.

I came across this. It proports to be useable in glutin fee beers.

http://www.hobbybryggeren.no/cafe-malt-p-18

any thoughts? would this be used as a base malt instead of say Pale? If this is the case one could make a single grain ale for those with tolerance issues?

interesting?

[jaroporter]

EBC and name make it seem like a roasted malt. didn't see a pale buckwheat on there..

[6470zzy]

The spec sheet is here:
http://www.castlemalting.com/CastleMalt ... ge=English

Interested to see that is has no diastatic power and that it is recommended for 50 –100 % usage.

Cheers

[Deebee]

Thats weird. If it has no diastic power then am i right suggesting it needs something to helpnit convert?
If this is right.. how can you use it at 100% for a gluten free beer??

[jaroporter]

i'm guessing you'd have to add enzymes separately. just to note though, that spec sheet seems to be for regular malted buckwheat , whereas the first link is for a roasted buckwheat malt

[Dave S]

Thats weird. If it has no diastic power then am i right suggesting it needs something to helpnit convert?
If this is right.. how can you use it at 100% for a gluten free beer??

Unless it's already mashed like Crystal.

[6470zzy]

i'm guessing you'd have to add enzymes separately. just to note though, that spec sheet seems to be for regular malted buckwheat , whereas the first link is for a roasted buckwheat malt

Right on all accounts

[Deebee]

Thaks very much.

Then the link on his website is in effect slightly misleading is it not?

[jaroporter]

seems like there is now a light cafe malt too that is regular barley malt, so yeah maybe the wrong writeup got tacked under the specs for the cafe malt. guess a quick email would confirm

[6470zzy]

http://www.castlemalting.com/CastleMalt ... ge=English

There is the link for all of their specs. Yes it seems as though there is a little mixing of descriptions, but still no diastatic power so you would need some enzymes.