Gladfield American Ale Malt
base malt · Gladfield Malt · New Zealand
Gladfield's cleaner base malt alternative to their Ale Malt, kilned to a special recipe that reduces toasted flavour. Produces a vibrant, clean, hop-forward malt profile suited to American-style beers where the grain bill should stay in the background.
42 brews
About
Gladfield made American Ale Malt for brewers who find their standard Ale Malt too malty and toasted for certain styles. Plump, low-protein autumn barley is given a long, cool germination and then kilned to a special recipe that holds a typical ale colour while keeping the flavour cleaner and less toasted. The result is a vibrant, clean base with a solid but hop-friendly malt profile — ideal for American IPAs and pale ales where the hops should lead.
Specs
- Colour
- 4.5–5.5 EBC
- Extract (FD)
- 80.5%
- Moisture max
- 5%
- Diastatic power
- 200 °WK
Usage
Use as the base malt up to 100% of the grist. Its high diastatic power (200 WK) easily converts specialty malts and adjuncts. Clean and neutral, it lets hop character dominate — the natural choice for West Coast and hazy IPAs.
In your brews
Styles brewed
Used in
- Red IPA 21B Specialty IPA: Red IPA
- Fresh Hop Red IPA 21B Specialty IPA: Red IPA
- Fresh Hop RIPA 21B Specialty IPA: Red IPA
- Hazy IPA VIII 21C Hazy IPA
- Philly Funk – Sour IPA v2 28D Straight Sour Beer
- Strata Single Hop IPA 21A American IPA
- Smashatron 21A American IPA
- Fresh Hop West Coast IPA 21A American IPA
- RIPA — Citra & Superdelic Cryo 21B Specialty IPA: Red IPA
- Philly Funk Sour IPA 28D Straight Sour Beer
- Resurgence Pale Ale IV 18B American Pale Ale
- APA — Greenbacker Variant 18B American Pale Ale
- Summer Light II 21C Hazy IPA
- Curbside Claw Ginger Beer 30A Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer
- Hazy IPA VII 21C Hazy IPA
- West Coast RIPA III 21B Specialty IPA: Red IPA
- APA — Panhead Clone V2 18B American Pale Ale
- 5.0 Pale Ale 18B American Pale Ale
- Ekuanot APA 18B American Pale Ale
- Ekuanot APA 18B American Pale Ale
- Hazy IPA VI 21C Hazy IPA
- West Coast RIPA II 21B Specialty IPA: Red IPA
- RIPA — Into Kegs 21B Specialty IPA: Red IPA
- West Coast RIPA I 21B Specialty IPA: Red IPA
- Resurgence Pale Ale 18B American Pale Ale
- Resurgence Pale Ale III 18B American Pale Ale
- RIPA 2 (Under Pressure) 21B Specialty IPA: Red IPA
- Summer Light 21C Hazy IPA
- RIPA 1 21B Red IPA
- Super RIPA 21B Specialty IPA: Red IPA
- Resurgence Pale Ale II 18B American Pale Ale
- Brewdog Punk IPA (clone) 21A American IPA
- Mikkeller Beer Geek Breakfast (clone) 20C Imperial Stout
- Redback APA 18B American Pale Ale
- Resurgence Pale Ale 18B American Pale Ale
- RAPA (Red APA) 21B Specialty IPA: Red IPA
- Liberty Sauvin Bomb (clone) 21A American IPA
- Liberty Yakima Monster (clone) 18B American Pale Ale
- Reet Petite (clone) 21B Specialty IPA: Red IPA
- Sierra Nevada Pale Ale (clone) 18B American Pale Ale
- Greenbacker APA 18B American Pale Ale
- Greenbacker APA (I) 18B American Pale Ale