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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

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

At 1-10% of your overall grain bill 2 Row Chocolate Malt makes produces a fantastic warm brown colors and light chocolate flavor to your finished brew.

General Info

• Malt Type: Roasted
• Grain Origin: North America
• Wort Color: 350 °Lovibond (932 EBC)
• Protein:
• Moisture: 5.5% max.
• Extract (dry):
• Diastatic Power: 0 °Lintner
• Usage: 10% max.

Styles

• Porters
• Stouts
• Brown Ales
• Dunkels

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

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

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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Fuggles are the classic English aroma hop. Providing a sweet, earthy aroma and flavor, these have been used in brewing since 1861.

General Info

• Origin: United Kingdom
• Hop Type: Aroma
• Alpha Acid: 3.0 - 5.6%
• Similar Varieties: Willamette, Styrian Goldings
• Common Styles: Mild Ale, Bitter Ale, Porter

Often described as a bit on the hot side, White Labs Dry English Ale Yeast is a fast fermenting yeast with the tolerant to brew a higher than average ABV beer. 

General Info

• Origin: England
• Attenuation: 70-80
• Flocculation: High
• Optimum Ferm Temp: 65-70
• Flavors: Clean/Neutral, Hot
• Alcohol Tolerance: Medium-High

Styles

• American Style Cream Ale
• American Style Wheat Ale
• Fruit Beer
• Herbs & Spice Beer
• Specialty Beers
• Specialty Honey Ales
• Smoke Flavored Beer
• Golden Ale Canadian Style Ale
• German Style Kolsch
• Classic English Style Pale Ale
• English Style India Pale Ale
• American Style Pale Ale
• American Style India Pale Ale
• American Style Amber
• English Style Bitter
• English Style ESB
• Scottish Style Ale
• Irish Style Red Ale
• English Style Brown Ale
• American Style Brown Ale
• German Style Brown and Dusseldorf Altbier
• Robust Porter
• Brown Porter
• Classic Irish Style Dry Stout
• Foreign Style Stout
• Sweet Stout
• Oatmeal Stout
• English Old Ale English & American Strong Ale
• Barley Wine Strong Ale
• Strong Scotch Ale
• Imperial Stout
• Imperial IPA