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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

A great hop to improve the moderate hop qualities of a Belgian or German Brew? German Hersbrucker Hop Pellets provide the ideal aroma additions with it's moderately floral qualities and fruity undertones.

Flavor Profiles

• Mild
• Herbal
• Floral
• Fruity Overtones

Typical Alpha Acid: 2.0% - 5.0%.

General Info

• Origins: Germany, Czech Republic
• Best Beer Styles for this hop: Pilsners, Bocks Lagers, Weizen Bocks, Wheat Beers, Kölsch, Belgian Ales, and Munich Helles.

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

With this mineral you are able to increase the calcium and hardens of the water you are adding to. Calcium will also lower the mash PH making this very useful for brewers that use distilled water.

We recomend 1 teaspoon per 5 gal.

• Lowers Mash PH
• Increases Water Hardness
• Sold by 1oz packages

With this mineral you are able to increase the hardness of the water you are adding to. Gypsum will also lower the mash PH making this very useful for brewers that use distilled water.

We recomend 1 teaspoon per 5 gal.

• Lowers Mash PH
• Increases Water Hardness
• Sold by 2oz packages

Imperial's Harvest strain is another popular lager strain that combines good flocculation with low diacetyl and sulfur production. It provides clean fermentations to produce wonderful bock, pilsner, helles, dunkle and about any other lager you want. 

General Info

• Attenuation: 70-74%
• Flocculation: Medium
• Optimum Fermentation Temp: 50-60F (10-16C)