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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

Husks have a tendency to impart an astringent quality in your beer. Carafa Type 3 (de-husked) does away with that allowing this high quality spring barley to concentrate the aroma and flavor. Perfect for dark beers.

General Info

• Origin: Germany
• EBC: 1200-1300
• Lovibond: 450-490
• Usage: to 5%
• Moisture: 3.5% max
• Total Nitrogen: N/A
• Extract% (dry basis): 70 min
• Soluble Nitrogen Ratio: N/A

Styles

• Altbier
• Porter
• Schwartzbier
• Stout
• Dark Beer Styles

Carafa Type 2 (de-husked) is a top quality spring barley that's roasted sans husk to keep the astringent qualities of this malt to a minimum. Great in smaller amounts as a color addition, use this in most any dark beer to add great coffee and cocoa flavor and color.

General Info

• Origin: Germany
• EBC: 1000-1200
• Lovibond: 375-450
• Usage: to 5%
• Moisture: 3.5% max
• Total Nitrogen: N/A
• Extract% (dry basis): 70 min
• Soluble Nitrogen Ratio: N/A

Styles

• Altbier
• Bock
• Porter
• Schwartzbier
• Stout
• Dark Beer Styles

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

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

An unmalted and dried barley that gives a rich and grainy flavor. Used primarily in stouts as well as German-style pilsners and improves your beer's head formation. 

General Info

• Unmalted
• Dried Barley
• Used Primarily in Stouts and German-style Pilsners
• Improves Beer's Head Formation

CaraAroma Malt is a specialty malt that helps contribute a full body and improve malt aromas to your beer. It also adds a deep, saturated red color and is most commonly used in Stouts, Porters, Reds, Dunkels and Bocks.

General Info

• Malt Type: Caramel/Crystal
• Grain Origin: Germany
• Color: 115ºL - 150ºLovibond
• Usage: 15% max.

Styles

• Stouts
• Porters
• Bocks
• Reds
• Dunkels

Aromatic Kiln is a strong malt by most measures. Providing a strong malt aroma and deep malt coloring as a product of it's kilning you can use Aromatic Kiln for up to 30% of your grain bill, but it is on the low side of diastatic enzymes (one of the enzymes converting starches into sugars so the yeast can convert those sugars to booze!) so most prefer to use it as a specialty malt aiding in styles like Ambers and Reds to get the darker coloration.  

General Info

• Origin: Belgium
• Type: Lightly Kilned Toasted Malt
• Variety : 2- row summerbarley
• Moisture : max 4.5 %
• Color : 40 - 60 EBC
• Lovibond: 17-21
• Extract fine D.M. : min 79 %
• Total protein : max 12.0 %
• pH : 5.2 – 5.7

Styles

• Abbey Ales
• Ambers
• Ales
• Bocks
• Trappist

Want to improve the head of your beer without changing taste, color, or aroma? Use 2 Row Carapils Malt for up to 5% of your grain bill and it will do just that. Totally devoid of enzymes, steep it in hot water or mash it in. 

General Info

• Malt Type: Specialty
• Grain Origin: North America
• Wort Color: 1.5 °Lovibond (2.0 EBC)
• Protein:
• Moisture: 6.5% max.
• Extract (dry): 75% min.
• Diastatic Power: 0 °Lintner
• Usage: 5% max.

Styles

• Any and All!

White wheat malt is one of the many taste of spring. Softer than red wheat and easier to mill, White Wheat Malt is one of the malts adding the characteristic haze you find in Belgian White Beers, and wheat beers.

General Info

• Malt Type: Base
• Grain Origin: North America
• Wort Color: 3.0-3.5 °Lovibond (6.4-7.9 EBC)
• Protein: 12%
• Moisture: 4.5% max.
• Extract (dry): 85.0% min.
• Diastatic Power:
• Usage: 50% max.

Styles

• Belgian White Beers
• Wheat Beers