Ritchies Crystal - What's in the bag?

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Ritchies Crystal - What's in the bag?

Post by BeerEagle » Sat Feb 11, 2012 8:25 pm

My GF kindly popped into our local HBS for me this afternoon to pick up some stuff for tomorrow's brew day.

I have made only one AG batch so far, with 100% Maris Otter ,and I wanted to create a darker beer this time, so I asked her to get me some Crystal 60L.

HBS didn't know what I wanted so GF came back with two 500g bags of "Crushed Crystal Malt". One by Ritchies, one by Youngs.

There's no info on the pack and I couldn't find anything on the interweb so does anyone know what "colour" it's likely to be so I can dial it into my brewing software.

Thanks.

jonnyt

Re: Ritchies Crystal - What's in the bag?

Post by jonnyt » Sun Feb 12, 2012 1:43 pm

120 is usually the default.

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Re: Ritchies Crystal - What's in the bag?

Post by Befuddler » Sun Feb 12, 2012 9:44 pm

jonnyt wrote:120 is usually the default.
No it isn't. :roll:

Standard UK crystal is in the 60-80L range, but we don't really use that scale over here. 120L would be considered "dark crystal", and the lower colour crystals usually come under "caramalt".
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Ritchies Crystal - What's in the bag?

Post by BeerEagle » Sun Feb 12, 2012 11:01 pm

Thanks guys.

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