Cara Ruby
Root Shoot Malting
Enter desired weight as a decimal - for example, 8.5 for 8 lb 8 oz, .75 for 12 oz, or 10 for 10 lb
Projected Beer Color (SRM)
SRM 20.0 – 30.0Malt Color (Degrees Lovibond)
18.0°LRoot Shoot Cara Ruby is a crystal malt from the northern Colorado Front Range that gives a distinct ruby color and some body from unfermentables. Light caramel, earthy, with a roasty-strawberry cereal note. Not a dark fruit crystal. Not a roast.
Malt Cup 2025, 2nd in caramel!
Flavor/Aroma
- Light caramel, floral
- Earthy, walnut-like
- Roasty strawberry cereal
Beer Interplay
- Imparts ruby to amber color
- Body from the unfermentable fraction
- Stays lighter in the flavor than Proximity Crystal 45 and up. The strawberry and walnut are the tell, not burnt sugar
Practical Usage
"I need the glass to go red. I do not need prune." Root Shoot points it at up to 20% of the grist. A small cut, around 5–8%, is color and a light caramel note in a pale ale or IPA. Toward 10–15% it carries an amber, red, Scottish, or brown.
Malt details:
Root Shoot Honey Malt spec sheet
Estate grown and malted on a 112-acre, 5th generation family farm in Loveland, CO - that's more than 100 years in the family! Root Shoot leases an additional 1500 acres in northern Colorado, all of which is regeneratively cultivated as the state's only Regenified Certified malthouse.