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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

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

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

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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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%)

Mosaic Hop Pellets (also known as HBS 369) came into the brewing world by storm in 2012 and has become a favorite of brewers around the globe. Mosaic hops are known for their complex aroma and flavors. Often compared to Citra hops, as it has similar alpha content with a great oil profile. They are the "daughter" of Simcoe hops and male Nugget hops. 

With it's exotic, fruity characteristics, we recommend these hop pellets for your American-style IPAs, saisons, wheats, and Brettanomyces-fermented beers.

General Info

• Country of Origin: United States
• Hop Type: Dual-Purpose (Aroma/Flavor)
• Alpha Acid: 11.5 - 13.5%
• Similar Varieties: Citra®
• Commonly Found in: American-style IPAs, saisons, wheats, and Brett beers

Created at Yakima Chief Ranches, this hop provides both bittering and hop aromas and improves the flavoring of other hops while producing a mellow pine and citrus flavor. This hop is great in American Ales and IPAs.

Flavor Profile

• Passionfruit
• Pine
• Earth
• Citrus

Typical Alpha Acid: 12.0%-14.0%

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

Safale S-04 Beer Yeast is a popular ale strain as it naturally bottom ferments. It also provides clarity to your finished beer as it tightly compacts at the bottom of your fermenter. 

Recommended Use: Temperature: 54°-77° F. Expect moderate flocculation and attenuation.

General Info

• Bottom Fermenteting Yeast
• Self Clearing
• Styles: Pale Ales, Porters, Stouts, Brown Ales, India Pale Ales and English Barley Wines