Gladfield Shepherds Delight Malt

specialty malt · Gladfield Malt · New Zealand

A unique Gladfield specialty malt delivering intense bready, toasted, and cola flavours with lingering fruity sweetness and a deep red hue. Use sparingly for dark fruit and complexity.

breadytoastedcolafruity sweetnessdark fruit

23 brews

About

Shepherds Delight is a concentrated, more intense relative of Gladfield's Aurora Malt, giving a potent bready, toasted, cola-like flavour with lingering fruity sweetness and a deep red hue — reminiscent of decoction character. It is powerful, so it must be used sparingly; too much can push the beer toward bitterness. Beers built with it benefit from a few weeks' ageing to let the flavour mellow.

Specs

Colour: 300–350 EBC
Extract (FD): 78%
Max usage: 10%
Moisture max: 5%
Diastatic power: 0 °WK

Usage

No diastatic power; mash with a base malt. Use sparingly — up to ~10% — as its malt flavour is intense. Gladfield recommend pairing it with Vienna malt for balancing sweetness, and allowing the finished beer a few weeks to mellow. Suits red ales, dubbels, amber ales and porters.

In your brews

Used in 23 brews 2022-02-10 → 2026-06-21

Total used 7.36 kg

Grain bill 4.7% range 0.8–9.1%

Styles brewed

21B Specialty IPA: Red IPA

13C English Porter

21B Red IPA

23B Flanders Red Ale

26B Belgian Dubbel

12A British Porter