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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

Suitable for all styles of beer where dark amber to copper hue and rich malt accent with notes of biscuit and caramel are desired. Weyermann Caramunich Type 3 also adds to the body while improving head retention.

General Info

• Malt Type: Crystal/Caramel
• Grain Origin: Germany
• Color: 53-60.5 °Lovibond (140-160 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

Aromatic Kiln is a strong malt by most measures. Providing a strong malt aroma and deep malt coloring as a product of it's kilning you can use Aromatic Kiln for up to 30% of your grain bill, but it is on the low side of diastatic enzymes (one of the enzymes converting starches into sugars so the yeast can convert those sugars to booze!) so most prefer to use it as a specialty malt aiding in styles like Ambers and Reds to get the darker coloration.  

General Info

• Origin: Belgium
• Type: Lightly Kilned Toasted Malt
• Variety : 2- row summerbarley
• Moisture : max 4.5 %
• Color : 40 - 60 EBC
• Lovibond: 17-21
• Extract fine D.M. : min 79 %
• Total protein : max 12.0 %
• pH : 5.2 – 5.7

Styles

• Abbey Ales
• Ambers
• Ales
• Bocks
• Trappist

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

Chocolate Rye is the perfect malt for enhancing notes and aromas in dark beers. Use for up to 5% of your total grain bill. 

General Info

• Origin: Germany
• EBC: 500-800
• Lovibond: 190-300
• Usage: to 5%
• Moisture: 3.0-4.0%
• Total Nitrogen: N/A
• Extract% (dry basis): 65-70
• Soluble Nitrogen Ratio: N/A

Styles

• Top Fermented Beer
• Alt Beer
• Dark Wheat Beer
• Stout
• Porter

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

Magnum is a bittering/aroma type cultivar, bred in 1980 at Huell, the German Hop Research Instititute, from the American variety Galena and the German male 75/5/3. (alpha acid: 10.0-12.6% / beta acid: 5.0-7.0%)

A great hop to improve the moderate hop qualities of a Belgian or German Brew? German Hersbrucker Hop Pellets provide the ideal aroma additions with it's moderately floral qualities and fruity undertones.

Flavor Profiles

• Mild
• Herbal
• Floral
• Fruity Overtones

Typical Alpha Acid: 2.0% - 5.0%.

General Info

• Origins: Germany, Czech Republic
• Best Beer Styles for this hop: Pilsners, Bocks Lagers, Weizen Bocks, Wheat Beers, Kölsch, Belgian Ales, and Munich Helles.