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6 Row Malt is great for any beer and style where you're using a lot of specialty malts, adjuncts, and wheat malts as they lack the enzymatic power themselves. A lightly colored base malt blended from several American 6-Row varieties, and keep in mind that using large amounts of 6 Row Malt may require a protein rest in mashing. 

General Info

• Malt Type: Base
• Grain Origin: North America
• Wort Color: 2.1-2.5 °Lovibond (4.0-5.3 EBC)
• Protein: 15.0%
• Moisture: 4.2% max.
• Extract (dry): 79.0% min.
• Usage: 100% max.

Styles

• American Lagers
• American Wheat Beers
• Beers with Large Amounts of Specialty Malt
• Styles Predating the wide use of 2-Row

Contributing sweet pronounced caramel flavors to your beer, 2 Row Caramel 60L is a medium crystal malt made with 2-row barley. It imbues a deep gold and reddish hue while improving body and head retention. The more you use the more depth of color and caramel flavors come out, so us this at max 15% of your overall grain bill. Substantially less for a balanced Pilsner.

General Info

• Malt Type: Crystal/Caramel
• Grain Origin: North America
• Wort Color: 60 °Lovibond (160 EBC)
• Moisture: 5.0% max.
• Extract (dry): 77.0% min.
• Diastatic Power: 0 °Lintner
• Usage: 15% max.

Styles

• Dark Ales
• Stouts
• Porters

Sweet complexity is what you get with Victory Malt. Great for abbey styles, porters, and dark ales, basically beers with depth, it taste of toasted marshmallows, moderate coffee, and dark dried fruit like prunes. Complimented with a dry woody characteristic it will impart deep copper hues in small quantities with out right dark copper coloring and toffee like aroma in larger quantities. 

General Info

• Malt Type: Specialty
• Grain Origin: North America
• Wort Color: 28 °Lovibond
• Protein:
• Moisture: 2.5% max.
• Extract (dry): 73.0% min.
• Diastatic Power: 0 °Lintner
• Usage: 15% max.

Styles

• Abbey Styles
• Porters
• Dark Ales

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.

Rice hulls are a great solution for preventing stuck mash as it works as a mesh to improve your filter bed performance.

General Info

• Filtering Medium
• Used for Preventing Stuck Mash
• Typically Usedin Wheat Beers

Fain's Raw Natural Honey comes from Texas brush country where one of the primary nectar sources is bee brush (also called white brush). It produces incredibly sweet smelling, tiny flowers after each rain and gives Fain's natural raw honey its wonderful flavor.

General Info

• Harvested and packed in Texas
• Raw & gently filtered
• No Cholesterol, No trans-fats
• Mild yet distinctive flavor

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%)

This strain is commonly know as the  "Brewer Patriot" strain. The Neutral flavor of the WLP008 is very similar to the WLP001 California Ale, the differential factor is that this strain accents less on hop bitterness and adds a light tart finish. Use this strain in you pale ales, golden ales, and blondes. 

General Info

• Attenuation: 70-75%
• Flocculation: Medium-to-Low
• Optimum Ferm Temp: 68-73°F
• Alcohol Tolerance: Medium