Red X - Best Malt (Germany)

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Red X’s full-bodied flavor and attractive, unique color coupled with easy handling in the brewery, make it the best choice for creating a broad range of new beers. Can be used in all red and reddish beer.

RED X®
THE MALT
BEST Red X® is specially created for brewing red-tinted beers. You can use BEST Red X® for up to 100% of your grain bill – no other malt is required. Offering excep-tional reliability and optimal processability, BEST Red X® can be employed to brew consistently fiery beers with intense reddish hues. Its full-bodied flavor and attrac-tive, unique color coupled with easy handling in thebrewery make BEST Red X® the best choice for creating a broad range of newbeers, such as red-tinted wheat beers. As with all BEST malts, BEST Red X® is pro-duced using a special malting procedure exclusively from two-rowed spring malt-ing barley from recognized and thoroughly tested barley varieties.
USE: Basemalt for all red-tinted beers
Perfectly suited for amber beer, wheat beer, Alt, ale and dark beer.
RATE:Up to 100 % of the grain bill (100 % recommended for red-tinted beers)

STANDARD MALT SPECIFICATIONS (the values are harvest dependent)
Specification                               Unit           Minimum        Maximum
Moisture content                          %                                         5.5
Extract fine grind, dry basis          %             79.0
Protein, dry basis                         %              9.5                     12.0
Wort color                  EBC / Lovibond        28 / 11                32 / 13
Wort pH                                    Units           5.40                     6.10
Grading < 2.2 mm                      %                                            1.5
Diastatic Power                         WK             200