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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

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

2 Row Caramel 120L is dark. Not Tarantino dark, but still pretty dark. The more you add (up to 15%) the more burnt sugar, caramel, and raisiny and prune flavors you're going to get from it while adding a deep red color and improving body and head retention.

It is gently cooked during the malting process to produce glassy, crystallized sugars which will add sweetness to your final product.

General Info

• Malt Type: Crystal/Caramel
• Grain Origin: North America
• Wort Color: 120 °Lovibond (318 EBC)
• Protein:
• Moisture: 3.0% max.
• Extract (dry): 75.0% min.
• Diastatic Power: 0 °Lintner
• Usage: 15% max.

Style

• Stouts
• Porters
• Dark Ales

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

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

Perfect for Vienna-style lagers and Belgian Abbey Ales, this 2-Row caramel malt adds soft caramel, toffee, and malty flavors. Drum kilned by the masters at Briess Malts and Ingredients Company for an even roast. 

General Info

• Malt Type: Caramel / Crystal / Cara Malt
• Grain Origin: North America
• Lovibond 20
• Protein: 0
• Moisture: 4.5% max.
• Extract (dry): 78% min.
• Diastatic Power: 0
• Usage: 10%

Making an Oatmeal Stout? You're going to need Flaked Oats or you're just making a stout...not that there's anything wrong with that. 

General Info

• Pre-Gelatinized
• For use with Oatmeal Stouts
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The UK Phoenix Hop Pellets have a surprising vibrant flavor quality. Spicy flavors with mellow aromas featuring chocolate, and molasses. It's great in English Ales as both an aromatic and clean finishing bittering hop.

General Info

• Origin: United Kingdom
• Purpose: Aroma / Bitter
• Alpha Acids: 8.5-11.5%
• Beta Acids: 3.8 - 5.4%
• Co-Humulone: 30%
• Substitutions: Challenger
• Found in: English Brews, ESB's, English Ales, IPAs, Golden Ales, Stouts, Porters

Safale US-05 Beer Yeast is one of the defining yeast of the American Homebrewing movement. It provides low to moderate sedimentation with moderate FG and is used to create crisp American beers we've all come to know and love. No hydration required, it's ready to pitch!

General Info

• Ready to Pitch (NoHydration Required)
• Low to Moderate Sedimentation
• Moderate Final Gravity
• Styles: Ale