Weyermann CARARED - Caramel Malt - Crushed

Weyermann CARARED - Caramel Malt - Crushed

Looking to give your beer a deeper red hue, a little extra malt character and some lovely caramel sweetness? Weyermann® CARARED® is a cracking specialty malt for the job.

Produced from quality German brewing barley, Carared is a caramel malt designed to intensify both the colour and flavour of your beer. It can give the finished beer a beautiful orange-red to reddish appearance, while adding soft caramel, honey and pastry-like malt notes.

It’s a particularly useful malt when you want to add some character without turning your beer into a heavy, overly sweet monster. A little can go a long way.

This is the Pre-crushed Carared malt, see our other listing for the whole grain option

What can you brew with CARARED?

Carared is incredibly versatile and works across a surprisingly wide range of beer styles. It is particularly useful in:

Fancy giving your next pale ale a warmer malt character? Want a proper copper-red bitter? Or perhaps you're building a big, rich Red IPA? CARARED® gives you another useful tool in the brewer's malt box.

Weyermann recommends using it at up to 25% of the grist, although most recipes will use considerably less depending on the effect you're after. It has no enzyme activity, so use it alongside a suitable base malt.

Weyermann CARARED Malt Specifications

Malt type: Caramel / specialty malt
Origin: German brewing barley
Colour: 40–60 EBC
Flavour: Malty-sweet, caramel, honey and pastry
Enzyme activity: None
Recommended maximum addition: Up to 25%

Used in one of our own recipes

If you'd like to see what CARARED® can do in a complete recipe, you'll find it in our Grain Over Sands Wreck the Halls All Grain Recipe Kit.

It's a great example of how this malt can be used alongside other malts and hops to build a beer with plenty of character. So if you're not quite ready to start designing your own recipe, you can always let us do the hard work for you!

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