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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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Greatly increases head retention and body.  Use 4 to 6 ounces in a 5 gallon batch.  

General Info

• Unmalted
• Dried Wheat
• Improves Beer's Head Formation

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

Cooked during the malting process which crystallizes the sugars and makes for a sweeter finished beer, 2 Row Caramel 40L Malt light crystal malt is made with 2-row barley, and adds a deep golden color with mild caramel and toffee flavors.

General Info

• Malt Type: Crystal/Caramel
• Grain Origin: North America
• Wort Color: 40 °Lovibond (110 EBC)
• Protein:
• Moisture: 5.5% max.
• Extract (dry): 77.0% min.
• Diastatic Power: 0 °Lintner
• Usage: 15% max.

Styles

• Dark Ales
• Porters
• Stouts

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%)

Coming from our brewing friends down under, the Galaxy Hop is a frequently used as a late addition due to it's gentle citrus and passion fruit notes. With intense grassy qualities this is a pungent hop.

General Info

• Origin: Australia
• Hop Type: Dual-Purpose
• Alpha Acid: 13.5-15.0%
• Similar Varieties: Citra
• Styles: IPA, Double IPA, Intensely Hoppy Styles

Based on a similar strain used in a popular Double IPA in Vermont *cough cough*, this is one of the go-to choices for creating balanced IPA's. Imperial's Barbarian strain produces stone fruit esters and works excellent along side citrusy hops varietals. 

General Info

• Attenuation: 73-74%
• Flocculation: Medium
• Optimum Fermentation Temp: 62-70F (16-21C)