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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

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

Biscuit Malt is aptly named. Contributing a warm bread/biscuit flavor and garnet brown color, this malt must be mashed with other malts containing an excess of diastatic power. Use 5-10% max.

General Info

• Malt Type: Lightly Kilned / Toasted Malt
• Origin: Belgium
• Variety: 6-row winterbarley
• 47 – 70 EBC, Lovibond: 18-27
• Extract : 70%
• Moisture: 4.5%
• Total Protein :11.5%
• Flavors: Nutty, Toasty, Bread...y, Bisctuit...y

Styles

• IPAs
• Nut Brown Ales
• Any Beer where a Nutty Addition would be nice

The German Perle hop was originally released in 1978 the same year brewing became legal in the United States. Due to a clerical omission wine making had been legal for sometime, but not beer. Fact! 

Perle hops offer a sweet, slightly fruity, slightly spicey aroma and flavor. 

General Info

• Origin: Germany
• Hop Type: Aroma
• Alpha Acid: 4.0 - 8.0%
• Similar Varieties: Liberty, Northern Brewer, Cluster
• Common Styles: Continental Ales and Lagers, Belgian Beers, Pale Ales, Porters, Stouts, Lagers, Pilsners, Weizens, Kölsch, and Munich Helles

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%)