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Breakfast is what comes to mind when describing this malt. Biscuity with a sourdough twist, Special Roast Malt provides your dark style beers with a deep gold to brown color while also providing complexity due to the proprietary malting technique utilized by this malt. 

General Info

• Malt Type: Specialty
• Grain Origin: North America
• Wort Color: 40 °Lovibond (110 EBC)
• Protein:
• Moisture: 2.5% max.
• Extract (dry): 72.0 % min.
• Diastatic Power:
• Usage: 10% max.

Styles

• IPAs
• Extra Special Bitters
• Amber Ales
• Nut Brown Ales
• Porters

Sweet complexity is what you get with Victory Malt. Great for abbey styles, porters, and dark ales, basically beers with depth, it taste of toasted marshmallows, moderate coffee, and dark dried fruit like prunes. Complimented with a dry woody characteristic it will impart deep copper hues in small quantities with out right dark copper coloring and toffee like aroma in larger quantities. 

General Info

• Malt Type: Specialty
• Grain Origin: North America
• Wort Color: 28 °Lovibond
• Protein:
• Moisture: 2.5% max.
• Extract (dry): 73.0% min.
• Diastatic Power: 0 °Lintner
• Usage: 15% max.

Styles

• Abbey Styles
• Porters
• Dark Ales

Cooked during the malting process which crystallizes the sugars and makes for a sweeter finished beer, 2 Row Caramel 40L Malt light crystal malt is made with 2-row barley, and adds a deep golden color with mild caramel and toffee flavors.

General Info

• Malt Type: Crystal/Caramel
• Grain Origin: North America
• Wort Color: 40 °Lovibond (110 EBC)
• Protein:
• Moisture: 5.5% max.
• Extract (dry): 77.0% min.
• Diastatic Power: 0 °Lintner
• Usage: 15% max.

Styles

• Dark Ales
• Porters
• Stouts

Gently cooked to bring out the crystallized sugars sweetening your finished brew, 2 Row Caramel 80L Malt  imparts a deep red color and balanced burnt sugar and raisin quality to your dark ales, porters and stouts. It can be used lightly in a pilsner to impart a deep richness, but is most typically found in darker styles. 

General Info

• Malt Type: Crystal/Caramel
• Grain Origin: North America
• Color: 80 °Lovibond (210 EBC)
• Protein:
• Moisture: 4.5% max.
• Extract (dry): 76.0% min.
• Diastatic Power: 0 °Lintner
• Usage: 15% max.

Styles

• Pilsners
• Dark Ales
• Porters
• Stouts

Special B is the darkest of the dark malts from the land of all things beer, Belgium. Producing dark fruit flavors akin to raisins, cherries, ans plums, this is a great malt to use in lower percentages. Less than 5% will provide an excellent color addition while greater than 5% will contribute a dark black/brown color and fuller body.

General Info

• Country of Origin: Belgium
• Variety : 6-row winterbarley
• Moisture : max 5 %
• Colour : 270 - 350 EBC, 120-140°L
• Extract fine D.M. : min 72 %
• Flavors: Dark Fruit, Cherries, Raisins, Plums, Chocolate

Styles:

• Belgian Abbey Ales
• Trappist Ales
• Dubbels
• Dark Strong Ales
• Stouts
• Porters
• Doppelbocks

Rice hulls are a great solution for preventing stuck mash as it works as a mesh to improve your filter bed performance.

General Info

• Filtering Medium
• Used for Preventing Stuck Mash
• Typically Usedin Wheat Beers

Smooth and sweet, Goldings are recognized as having the most typical English profile. This hop is in demand for copper-hopping and dry hopping of traditional ales. Use Golding hops in combination with Fuggles for a time-honored taste. Kent Goldins are also useful for late hopping lagers, when a delicate aroma is required.

Average Alpha: 4.5-6.5%
Substitutes: Styrian Goldings