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Dark Munich Malt is typically used a specialty malt. With a full body, dark amber color, strong malty taste and superior mouthfeel, you can use this malt for up to 100% of the grist. Honey, bread, caramel and a rich aroma make this 2 row spring barley perfect in dark lagers and ales, bocks, Marzenbier, Festbier and Oktoberfest.

General Info

• Malt Type: Specialty
• Grain Origin: Germany
• Color: 8-9.9 °Lovibond (20-25 EBC)
• Protein: 9.5-12.5%
• Moisture: 4% max.
• Extract (dry): 78% min.
• Diastatic Power:
• Usage: 100% max.

Styles

• Dark Lagers
• Dark Beer
• Bock Beer
• October Beer
• Stout
• Schwarzbier
• Brown Ale
• Dark Ale
• Amber Beer

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

Smooth and sweet, Goldings are recognized as having the most typical English profile. This hop is in demand for copper-hopping and dry hopping of traditional ales. Use Golding hops in combination with Fuggles for a time-honored taste. Kent Goldins are also useful for late hopping lagers, when a delicate aroma is required.

Average Alpha: 4.5-6.5%
Substitutes: Styrian Goldings

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