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Fermentable

Pilsner Malt  
$1.65 available
Product Description

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

Vienna Malt  
$1.69 available
Product Description

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

Melanoidin Malt  
$2.29 available
Product Description

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.

Hop

Magnum Hop Pellets  
$1.98 available
Product Description

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%)

German Hallertau Mittelfruh Hop Pellets  
$1.98 available
Product Description

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

Yeast

Wyeast 2565 Kolsch Beer Yeast  
$6.95 available
Product Description

A generally slow fermenting yeast, Wyeast Kölsch 2565 has it's origins in a top fermenting yeast from Cologne, Germany. Bringing out the fruity flavors and clean lager like profile, this is an excellent yeast in a number of styles, but it does require filtration, or extra settling time to produce a bright beer. Wyeast Kölsch 2565 produces little to no diacetyl meaning you won't end up with a buttery beer. 

General Info

  • Origin: Germany, Czech Republic
  • Flocculation: low
  • Attenuation: 73-77%
  • Temperature Range: 56-70° F (13-21° C)
  • Alcohol Tolerance: approximately 10% ABV

Styles:

  • American Wheat or Rye Beer
  • Berliner Weisse
  • Bière de Garde
  • Cream Ale
  • Düsseldorf Altbier
  • Fruit Beer
  • Kölsch
  • Northern German Altbier
  • Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer

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