Roast acidity varies quite a bit, but it doesn’t seem to be well correlated to color rating. Review the results in Kai’s paper on malt acidity and you will note that base and crystal malts tend to correlate well with color rating, but the roast is all over the place. About the only thing I could get out of the data was that roast has a somewhat consistent level of acidity. I just eye-balled an average value. The good thing is that we don’t typically use that much roast in our brews.
Thank you Martin! I had been wanting to blame my sometimes low mash pH in a couple of dark beers on the *L of the roast. Sounds like I have to suss out another culprit.
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