I like the Briess Pale malt, it's fine as a base malt for pale ales and dark beers, especially American ones. Briess has a reputation as a big maltster but it is actually one of the smaller ones. I'm not a huge fan of all their malts but some of them are quite nice. the Pale malt has asubtle "cookie" like character I think most will enjoy. That said, it's not going to make very authentic English/Scotch/Irish tatsing beers if that is what you are going for.