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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

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

Dark caramel, bread, dried fruits and raisins make up the flavor profile of this sweet, malty malt. Weyermann Caramunich Type 1 Malt is great for improving body and head retention in and style where notes of biscuit, and intense caramel would be appreciated.

General Info

• Malt Type: Crystal/Caramel
• Grain Origin: Germany
• Color: 31-38 °Lovibond (80-100 EBC)
• Protein:
• Moisture: 4.5% max.
• Extract (dry): 75% 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

Hot rod flaked and partially gelatinized (Coarse Flakes). Flaked rye provides a strong rye flavor so use from 5-10%. 

General Info

• Hot rod flaked
• Partially gelatinized

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

Acidulated Malt is typicall used at 1 to 10% to lower mash and wort pH. Great for brewing pilsner with soft water and also recommended for hefeweizen mashes.

General Info

• EBC: 3-6
• Lovibond: 1.7-2.8
• Usage: to 5%
• Moisture: 6.0-7.0%
• Total Nitrogen: 10.0-11.0
• Soluble Nitrogen Ratio: N/A
• Extract% (dry basis):N/A

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%)