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Looking for a solid Pilsen style base malt? This grain has your name on it. A versatile grain that can be used for lager, pilsners, Belgian, German styles and many more. It produces a clean, crisp, light colored wort that really lets the specialty grains shine through.  

General Info

• Malt Style: Base malt
• Flavor: Clean, sweet, delicate malty flavor
• Color: Very light color contribution Lightest colored base malt available

Styles

• Any - All

White wheat malt is one of the many taste of spring. Softer than red wheat and easier to mill, White Wheat Malt is one of the malts adding the characteristic haze you find in Belgian White Beers, and wheat beers.

General Info

• Malt Type: Base
• Grain Origin: North America
• Wort Color: 3.0-3.5 °Lovibond (6.4-7.9 EBC)
• Protein: 12%
• Moisture: 4.5% max.
• Extract (dry): 85.0% min.
• Diastatic Power:
• Usage: 50% max.

Styles

• Belgian White Beers
• Wheat Beers

Vienna Malt is a kiln-dried barley malt that's darker than pale ale malt, but not quite as dark as Munich Malt for example. It adds a golden color and a toasty or biscuity malt aroma to the beer and is used in a variety of styles from dark to light ales and even lagers.

General Info

• Malt type: Base malt or specialty malt
• Flavor Contribution: Enhanced malt flavor and aroma, slightly toasty
• Color/Appearance: Rich, dark golden

Styles

• Any - All

The German Tettnang hops are a landrace variety of noble hops with a spicy, floral, fruity flavor and aroma. The go to hop for many German Ales and lagers, It gets it's name from the region where it originally started growing, Tettnang 

General Info

• Origin: Germany
• Hop Type: Dual-Purpose
• Alpha Acid: 2.5 - 5.5%
• Similar Varieties: Saaz, Crystal, Spalter Select, Hersbrucker
• Common Styles: German and Belgian styles

Spalter hops are a descendant of noble hops that provide a floral, hoppy character with notes of spice and ripe berry. They are most commonly used for traditional lagers, cold-fermented ales, Weissbier and Belgian-style ales. 

General Info

• Origin: Germany
• Hop Type: Aroma/Flavor
• Alpha Acid 3 - 5%

With this mineral you are able to increase the hardness of the water you are adding to. Gypsum will also lower the mash PH making this very useful for brewers that use distilled water.

We recomend 1 teaspoon per 5 gal.

• Lowers Mash PH
• Increases Water Hardness
• Sold by 2oz packages

White Labs German Ale/Kölsch Yeast as the name indicates is great for fermenting German Ales. Able to bring out the titular qualities of Blonde and Honey ales, this yeast finishes super clean leaving a lager type ale for you to enjoy. 

From a small brewpub in Cologne, Germany, this yeast works great in Kölsch and Alt style beers. Good for light beers like blonde and honey ales. Accentuates hop flavors, similar to WLP001. The slight sulfur produced during fermentation will disappear with age and leave a super clean, lager-like ale. General Info

• Origin: Germany (Cologne)
• Attenuation: 72-78
• Flocculation: Medium
• Optimum Ferm Temp: 65-69
• Flavors: Light, Clean, Fruit Undertones (Apple, White Grape)
• Alcohol Tolerance: Medium

Styles

• Kölsch
• German Ales
• American Style Cream Ale
• American Style Wheat Ale
• Fruit Beer
• Herbs & Spice Beer
• Specialty Beers
• Specialty Honey Ales
• Smoke Flavored Beer
• Golden Ale Canadian Style Ale
• German Style Kolsch
• Classic English Style Pale Ale
• English Style India Pale Ale
• American Style Pale Ale
• American Style India Pale Ale
• American Style Amber
• English Style Bitter
• English Style ESB
• Scottish Style Ale
• Irish Style Red Ale
• English Style Brown Ale
• American Style Brown Ale
• German Style Brown and Dusseldorf Altbier
• Robust Porter
• Brown Porter
• Classic Irish Style Dry Stout
• Foreign Style Stout
• Sweet Stout
• Oatmeal Stout
• English Old Ale English & American Strong Ale
• Barley Wine Strong Ale
• Strong Scotch Ale
• Imperial Stout
• Imperial IPA