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This is a great choice for a 2-Row base malt that is grow right here in America, Montana to be specific. The malt works well with single infusion mashes and has no problem handling adjuncts.

General Info

• Color: 1.8
• Potential: 1.038
• Yield: 82%
• Moisture: 3.5%
• Diastatic: 84 (min) 96 (max)
• Protein: 4%

Styles

• Any - All

Suitable for all styles of beer where dark amber to copper hue and rich malt accent with notes of biscuit and caramel are desired. Weyermann Caramunich Type 3 also adds to the body while improving head retention.

General Info

• Malt Type: Crystal/Caramel
• Grain Origin: Germany
• Color: 53-60.5 °Lovibond (140-160 EBC)
• Protein:
• Moisture: 6.5% max.
• Extract (dry): 73% min.
• Diastatic Power: 0 °Lintner
• Usage: 10% max

Styles

• October Beer
• Bockbier
• Dark Beer
• Porter
• Stout
• Malt Beer
• Nourishing Beer
• Schankbier
• Red Ale
• Brown Ale
• Malt-Liquor
• Amber

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

Husks have a tendency to impart an astringent quality in your beer. Carafa Type 3 (de-husked) does away with that allowing this high quality spring barley to concentrate the aroma and flavor. Perfect for dark beers.

General Info

• Origin: Germany
• EBC: 1200-1300
• Lovibond: 450-490
• Usage: to 5%
• Moisture: 3.5% max
• Total Nitrogen: N/A
• Extract% (dry basis): 70 min
• Soluble Nitrogen Ratio: N/A

Styles

• Altbier
• Porter
• Schwartzbier
• Stout
• Dark Beer Styles

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

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

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%)