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Light Dry Malt Extract adds extra body and richness to your beer. Great for lighter beers like lagers and pilsners.

General Info

• Protein: 5.5%
• Max: 7.5%
• pH: 5 - 6

Styles

• Lighter Beers
• Lagers
• Pilsners

Light is a lightly colored American liquid malt extract with a classic malty flavor and is great for any style of beer. This canister contains 3.3lbs of LME.

- Malts: Base Malt, Carapils
- Malt Solids: 79%
- Fermentability: 75%
- Color: 4 °Lovibond
- Specific Gravity: 1.035

General Info

• Contains 3.3lbs of LME
• Malts: Base Malt, Carapils
• Malt Solids: 79%
• Fermentability: 75%
• Color: 4 Degrees Lovibond
• Specific Gravity: 1.035

Styles

• Any style of beer

A great malt for adding body and improving head retention, Weyermann Caramunich Type 2 Malt is a two row malt that contributes a dark amber - copper hue and a rich malt flavor with notes of biscuit and an intense caramel aroma. Perfect in any beer where these qualities would be welcomed.

General Info

• Malt Type: Crystal/Caramel
• Grain Origin: Germany
• Color: 42-49 °Lovibond (110-130 EBC)
• Protein:
• Moisture: 6.5% max.
• Extract (dry): 73% min.
• Diastatic Power: 0 °Lintner
• Usage: 10% max.

Styles

• October Beer
• Bockbier
• Dark Beer
• Porter
• Stout
• Malt Beer
• Nourishing Beer
• Schankbier
• Red Ale
• Brown Ale
• Malt-Liquor
• Amber

At 1-10% of your overall grain bill 2 Row Chocolate Malt makes produces a fantastic warm brown colors and light chocolate flavor to your finished brew.

General Info

• Malt Type: Roasted
• Grain Origin: North America
• Wort Color: 350 °Lovibond (932 EBC)
• Protein:
• Moisture: 5.5% max.
• Extract (dry):
• Diastatic Power: 0 °Lintner
• Usage: 10% max.

Styles

• Porters
• Stouts
• Brown Ales
• Dunkels

Weyermann Carared is a unique caramel malt from Germany. It is equivalent to a caramel or crystal malt with a 20L rating. In addition to residual sweetness, Carared imparts a red hue to beers, and is used to great effect in red ales, Scottish ales, bock beers, brown ales, alts and amber beers. It improves body and malt aroma. A wonderful malt often called for in a variety of recipes!

Extract Percentage 74-78
Lovibond 15-25
Moisture Percentage 5.5-7.5
Grain Usage 25
Grain Type Caramel / Crystal / Cara Malt

Melanoidin is a kilned specialty malt that helps promote flavor stability, add body, and produce a smooth mouthfeel. With an intense malt aroma and unique brewing characteristics it has a high degree of modification of both proteins and starches, excellent friability, low ß-glucan values, and high acidity. Melanoidin malt adds a deep amber to red-brown color to your finished beer. With rich malt flavor having notes of honey and biscuit, Melanoidin malt is best used in dark or red-colored beers such as amber ales, Scottish ales, Irish red ales, bocks, and Kellerbier.

So what does that mean? Melanoidin Malt helps improve the red coloration and intensifies malt flavors in your beer.

Genral Info

• Malt Type: Specialty
• Grain Origin: Germany
• Color: 23-31 °Lovibond (60-80 EBC)
• Protein:
• Moisture: 4.5% max.
• Extract (dry): 75% min.
• Diastatic Power:
• Usage: 20% max.

Easily tempered with black or chocolate malts, Roasted Barley has the intense bitterness and dry, coffee flavors that really compliments a stout. 

General Info

• Malt Type: Adjunct
• Grain Origin: North America
• Wort Color: 300 °Lovibond (800 EBC)
• Moisture: 5.0% max.
• Extract (dry): 72%
• Diastatic Power: 0
• Usage: 7% max.

Styles

• Stouts
• Some Porters

One of the noble German Hops to lend it's qualities to continental lagers and European Ales, the Hallertau Mittelfruh Hop enjoys world renown for it's elegant, sweet and earthy aromas merged with a harmonic bitterness. 

General Info

• Origin: Germany
• Hop Type: Aroma
• Alpha Acid: 3.0 - 5.5%
• Similar Varieties: Tradition, Hersbrucker, Mount Hood, Liberty
• Common Styles: Continental Lagers and Wheat Beers, German Pilsner, Altbier

Safale S-04 Beer Yeast is a popular ale strain as it naturally bottom ferments. It also provides clarity to your finished beer as it tightly compacts at the bottom of your fermenter. 

Recommended Use: Temperature: 54°-77° F. Expect moderate flocculation and attenuation.

General Info

• Bottom Fermenteting Yeast
• Self Clearing
• Styles: Pale Ales, Porters, Stouts, Brown Ales, India Pale Ales and English Barley Wines