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Offline dzlater

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Continental Pale Malt?
« on: January 29, 2012, 08:54:14 am »
Continental Pale Malt, what is it exactly?
Would I be better off using MarisOtter or good ole american 2 row?
Thanks,
Dan
Dan S. from NJ

Offline Thirsty_Monk

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Re: Continental Pale Malt?
« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2012, 09:15:09 am »
It depends what you want to do.
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Offline jlap

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Re: Continental Pale Malt?
« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2012, 09:24:52 am »
I brew with a lot of Belgian Pale Malt instead of US 2-row.  We do club grain buys and while it still costs a little more I think the malt quality is better than the US malts available through North Country.  I use it in IPA's, pale ales, porters.  I've never tried a German Pale Malt.  I did buy some Golden Promise from Fawcett once but I had some strange efficiency issues with it that I never really solved.

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Re: Continental Pale Malt?
« Reply #3 on: January 29, 2012, 10:44:21 am »
Continental pale malt is pale malt from a European maltster like Weyermann or Franco-Belges.

As TM said, whether it is better to sub MO or American 2-row depends on what you are trying to do.
Tom Schmidlin

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Re: Continental Pale Malt?
« Reply #4 on: January 29, 2012, 04:40:26 pm »
I was thinking of brewing this
http://barclayperkins.blogspot.com/2011/10/lets-brew-wednesday-1868-younger-teeble.html
since it's English I am leaning towards the MO
I just ordered a sack each of MO, and Canadian 2 row, and a grain mill.  ;D
Dan S. from NJ

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Re: Continental Pale Malt?
« Reply #5 on: January 29, 2012, 06:39:46 pm »
Yeah, I would use the MO.  Enjoy!  Let us know how it turns out.
Tom Schmidlin

Offline Thirsty_Monk

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Re: Continental Pale Malt?
« Reply #6 on: January 29, 2012, 08:02:25 pm »
Agree with Tom.
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