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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

27 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 27 brews 2022-02-10 → 2026-09-06
Total used 8.14 kg
Grain bill 4.5% range 0.8–9.1%

Styles brewed

21B Specialty IPA: Red IPA
19
13C English Porter
4
26D Belgian Dark Strong Ale
1
15A Irish Red Ale
1
23B Flanders Red Ale
1
26B Belgian Dubbel
1
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