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Light Dry Malt Extract adds extra body and richness to your beer. Great for lighter beers like lagers and pilsners.

General Info

• Protein: 5.5%
• Max: 7.5%
• pH: 5 - 6

Styles

• Lighter Beers
• Lagers
• Pilsners

Munich Malt has a malty sweet flavor characteristic and adds a red or amber color to the beer. It has enough diastatic power to convert itself, but needs help from other malts (2-row malt for example) to convert other grains.

General Info

• Yield: 77.0 %
• Potential: 1.035
• Color 10.0 SRM
• Moisture: 5.0 %
• Protein: 13.5 %

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

Melanoidin is a kilned specialty malt that helps promote flavor stability, add body, and produce a smooth mouthfeel. With an intense malt aroma and unique brewing characteristics it has a high degree of modification of both proteins and starches, excellent friability, low ß-glucan values, and high acidity. Melanoidin malt adds a deep amber to red-brown color to your finished beer. With rich malt flavor having notes of honey and biscuit, Melanoidin malt is best used in dark or red-colored beers such as amber ales, Scottish ales, Irish red ales, bocks, and Kellerbier.

So what does that mean? Melanoidin Malt helps improve the red coloration and intensifies malt flavors in your beer.

Genral Info

• Malt Type: Specialty
• Grain Origin: Germany
• Color: 23-31 °Lovibond (60-80 EBC)
• Protein:
• Moisture: 4.5% max.
• Extract (dry): 75% min.
• Diastatic Power:
• Usage: 20% max.

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

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

Oak flavors come out in White Labs London Ale Yeast WLP013. Great for classic British Pale Ales, Bitters and Stouts, you can use this yeast in a handful of styles and see great results. This yeast provides complex flavors and allows for the hop bitterness to make it's way through. 

General Info

• Origin: England
• Attenuation: 67-75
• Flocculation: Medium
• Optimum Ferm Temp: 66-71
• Flavors: Oak
• Alcohol Tolerance: Medium

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