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A pleasant floral aroma and sweet taste makes 2 Row Malt perfect for any beer style. Darker than most lager malts but lighter than most pale ale malts 2 Row Malt is American grown and American malted. This is one of our favorite brewing malts, perfect for a variety of brews. 

General Info

• Malt Type: Base
• Grain Origin: North America
• Wort Color: 1.7-2.0 °Lovibond (3.0-3.9 EBC)
• Protein: 11.0-12.0%
• Moisture: 4.0% max.
• Extract (dry): 80.0% min.
• Diastatic Power:
• Usage: 100% max.

Styles

• Any - All

Munich Malt has a malty sweet flavor characteristic and adds a red or amber color to the beer. It has enough diastatic power to convert itself, but needs help from other malts (2-row malt for example) to convert other grains.

General Info

• Yield: 77.0 %
• Potential: 1.035
• Color 10.0 SRM
• Moisture: 5.0 %
• Protein: 13.5 %

Styles

• Any - All

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

Gambrinus Honey Malt is aptly named. With it's honey like taste and residual sweetness this 2-row barley malt is without compare. 

General Info

• Malt Type: Specialty
• Grain Origin: North America
• Wort Color: 20-25 °Lovibond (51-66 EBC)
• Protein: 12% max.
• Moisture: 5% max.
• Extract (dry): 80% min.
• Diastatic Power:
• Usage: 10% max.

Styles

• Brown Ales
• Porters
• Stouts

An unmalted and dried barley that gives a rich and grainy flavor. Used primarily in stouts as well as German-style pilsners and improves your beer's head formation. 

General Info

• Unmalted
• Dried Barley
• Used Primarily in Stouts and German-style Pilsners
• Improves Beer's Head Formation

Coming from our brewing friends down under, the Galaxy Hop is a frequently used as a late addition due to it's gentle citrus and passion fruit notes. With intense grassy qualities this is a pungent hop.

General Info

• Origin: Australia
• Hop Type: Dual-Purpose
• Alpha Acid: 13.5-15.0%
• Similar Varieties: Citra
• Styles: IPA, Double IPA, Intensely Hoppy Styles

These hops are a mixture of Saazer, Beikei Number 2 male, and Brewer's Gold. Used for just about anything these hops provide a specific lemon and dill character. The most common type of beer these hops are used with would be a pale ale, due to its unusually high alpha aroma and bitterig characteristics.

General Info

• Hop Type: Dual-Purpose (Aroma/Flavor)
• Alpha Acid: 10.0 - 16.0%
• Similar Varieties: Saaz, Brewer's Gold
• Commonly Found in: Pale Ales