Base Malts and Specialty Grains

Base malts provide the foundation of fermentable sugars for beer, while specialty grains add color, flavor, and character. From pale 2-row barley to rich crystal malts and roasted grains, these ingredients form the backbone of your beer recipe.

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Briess • North America

2-Row Black Malt

Neutral flavor. Characteristics & Applications: Use in all beer styles for color adjustment. Provides the color and sharp, almost acrid, flavor that is characteristic of Stouts and Porters. Use 1-10% for desired color in Porter and Stout. Black Malt has a distinctive malty flavor and is not interchangeable with Roasted Barley. Produced from AMBA/BMBRI recommended 6-Row Malting Barley varieties.

  • Yield: 30.2 oe
  • Color: 500 L

Briess • North America

2-Row Brewers Malt

Mild malty flavor. Characteristics & Applications: • Base malt for all beer styles • Smoother, less grainy flavor than 6-Row Brewers Malt. • Slightly higher yield than 6-Row Brewers Malt. • Slight lower protein than 6-Row Brewers Malt. • Produced from AMBA/BMBRI recommended 2-Row Malting Barley varieties.

  • Yield: 35.3 oe
  • Color: 1.8 L

Briess • North America

2-Row Brewers Malt (Organic)

Mild malty flavor. USDA Organic, 100% Organic. Characteristics & Applications: • Base malt for all beer styles • Smoother, less grainy flavor than 6-Row Brewers Malt. • Slightly higher yield than 6-Row Brewers Malt. • Slight lower protein than 6-Row Brewers Malt. • Produced from AMBA/BMBRI recommended 2-Row Malting Barley varieties.

  • Yield: 35.3 oe
  • Color: 1.8 L

Briess • North America

2-Row Caramel Malt 10L

Golden color and a candy like sweetness. Characteristics & Applications: • In contrast to Brewers Malt, glassiness is a distinguishing characteristic of Caramel Malt. The glassy endosperm creates the desirable non-fermentable components giving true Caramel Malt the ability to contribute body (mouthfeel), foam foam retention, and extended beer stability, while contributing color and unique caramel flavor. • Caramel 10L is a roasted caramel malt that imparts golden color. • Use 3-7% for Pilsener-style beers for balance. • Use 5-15% to provide color, sweetness and color to light amber beers. • Produced from AMBA/BMBRI recommended 2-Row Malting Barley varieties.

  • Yield: 31.6 oe
  • Color: 10 L

Briess • North America

2-Row Caramel Malt 120L

Pronounced Caramel, Burnt Sugar, Raisiny, Prunes. Characteristics & Applications: • In contrast to Brewers Malt, glassiness is a distinguishing characteristic of Caramel Malt. The glassy endosperm creates the desirable non-fermentable components giving true Caramel Malt the ability to contribute body (mouthfeel), foam foam retention, and extended beer stability, while contributing color and unique caramel flavor. • 20Row Caramel Malt 120L is a roasted caramel malt that imparts deep red color. • Use 3-15% in Amber and Red beers. • Use 10-15% in Bock beers. • Use 7-15% in Dark beers. • Use 10-15% in Porter and Stout. • Produced from AMBA/BMBRI recommended 2-Row Malting Barley varieties.

  • Yield: 30.8 oe
  • Color: 120 L

Briess • North America

2-Row Caramel Malt 30L

Sweet, Caramel, Toffee. Characteristics & Applications: • In contrast to Brewers Malt, glassiness is a distinguishing characteristic of Caramel Malt. The glassy endosperm creates the desirable non-fermentable components giving true Caramel Malt the ability to contribute body (mouthfeel), foam foam retention, and extended beer stability, while contributing color and unique caramel flavor. • 2-Row Caramel 30L is a roasted caramel malt that imparts golden color. • Use 3-7% for Pilsener-style beers for balance. • Use 5-15% to provide color, sweetness and color to light amber beers. • Produced from AMBA/BMBRI recommended 2-Row Malting Barley varieties.

  • Yield: 31.2 oe
  • Color: 30 L

Briess • North America

2-Row Caramel Malt 40L

Sweet, Caramel, Toffee. S Characteristics & Applications: • In contrast to Brewers Malt, glassiness is a distinguishing characteristic of Caramel Malt. The glassy endosperm creates the desirable non-fermentable components giving true Caramel Malt the ability to contribute body (mouthfeel), foam foam retention, and extended beer stability, while contributing color and unique caramel flavor. • 2-Row Caramel Malt 40L is a roasted caramel malt that imparts golden to light red color. • Use 3-7% for Pilsener-style beers for balance. • Use 5-15% to provide color, sweetness and color to light amber beers. • Produced from AMBA/BMBRI recommended 2-Row Malting Barley varieties.

  • Yield: 31.2 oe
  • Color: 40 L

Briess • North America

2-Row Caramel Malt 60L

Sweet, Pronounced Caramel. Characteristics & Applications: • In contrast to Brewers Malt, glassiness is a distinguishing characteristic of Caramel Malt. The glassy endosperm creates the desirable non-fermentable components giving true Caramel Malt the ability to contribute body (mouthfeel), foam foam retention, and extended beer stability, while contributing color and unique caramel flavor. • 2-Row Caramel Malt 60L is a roasted caramel malt that imparts deep golden to red color. • Use 3-7% for Pilsener-style beers for balance. • Use 5-15% to provide color, sweetness and color to amber and red beers. • Produced from AMBA/BMBRI recommended 2-Row Malting Barley varieties.

  • Yield: 31.2 oe
  • Color: 60 L

Briess • North America

2-Row Caramel Malt 80L

Pronounced Caramel, Slight Burnt Sugar, Raisiny, Prune. Characteristics & Applications: • In contrast to Brewers Malt, glassiness is a distinguishing characteristic of Caramel Malt. The glassy endosperm creates the desirable non-fermentable components giving true Caramel Malt the ability to contribute body (mouthfeel), foam, foam retention, and extended beer stability, while contributing color and unique caramel flavor. • 2-Row Caramel Malt 80L is a roasted caramel malt that imparts red to deep red color. • Use 3-15% in Amber and Red beers. • Use 10-15% in Bock beers. • Use 7-15% in Dark beers. • Use 10-15% in Porter and Stout. • Produced from AMBA/BMBRI recommended 2-Row Malting Barley varieties.

  • Yield: 31.1 oe
  • Color: 80 L

Briess • North America

2-Row Carapils® Malt

Very low color or flavor contribution. Characteristics & Applications: • The endosperm is completely glassy and will appear to be darker than standard Brewers Malt. • Carapils® is a very unique dextrine-style malt that adds body, foam retention, and beer stability without influencing color or flavor. • Use to upgrade all types of beer, including light colored beers. • The non-fermentables in Carapils® are very advantageous in balancing body and flavor of dark colored beers. • May be used with or without other specialty malts. • Low usage of 1-5% will help achieve desired results. • Produced from AMBA/BMBRI recommended 2-Row Malting Barley varieties.

  • Yield: 31.2 oe
  • Color: 1.5 L

Briess • North America

2-Row Chocolate Malt

Rich Roasted Coffee. Characteristics & Applications: • 2-Row Chocolate Malt is used in all beer styles for color adjustment with minor or no flavor contribution. • Use 1-10% for desired color in Porter and Stout Beer. • The chocolate flavor is very complementary when used in higher percentages in Brown Ales, Porters, Stouts and other Dark Beers. • Produced from AMBA/BMBRI recommended 2-Row Malting Barley varieties.

  • Yield: 32.1 oe
  • Color: 350 L

Briess • North America

6-Row Brewers Malt

Mild grain malty flavor. Characteristics & Applications: • Base malt for all beer styles • More husk than 2-Row Brewers Malt making it well suited for high adjunct brewing. • Produced from AMBA/BMBRI recommended 6-Row Malting Barley varieties.

  • Yield: 33.8 oe
  • Color: 1.8 L

Weyermann® • Europe

Abbey Malt®

A highly friable base malt with pronounced malty aromas, and assertive flavors such as honey, nuts as well as hints of chocolate.

  • Yield: 32.4 oe
  • Color: 17.4 L

Castle Malting • Belgium

Acid Malt

Features: Malt processed to lower the pH level of the wort. Usage: For light Ale. Recommended mixture: up to 10%. Characteristics: Reduces wort pH and hence intensifies fermentation. Improves flavour stability.

  • Yield: 33.5 oe
  • Color: 2.35 L

Weyermann® • Germany

Acidulated Malt

German-grown two-row spring barley (2004 harvest). Product Characteristics: Lowers mash, wort, and beer pH. Contains 1−2% lactic acid. Slightly smoky. Enhances enzymatic activity in mash and improves extract efficiency. Lightens color in pale brews. Enhances stability and extends shelf life of finished beer. Promotes well-rounded, complex beer flavor. Recommended Quantities: Up to 10% of total grain bill. Each 1% lowers mash pH by 0.1. Suitability (beer styles): Any ale or lager, especially Pils/Pilsner/Pilsener, low-alcohol beers, wheat beers

  • Yield: 32.9 oe
  • Color: 2.25 L

Germany

Acidulated Malt

High lactic acid. For lambics, sour mash beers, Irish stout, pilsners and wheats.

  • Yield: 32.9 oe
  • Color: 2.25 L

Muntons • UK

Ale Malt

  • Yield: 36.4 oe
  • Color: 2.91878 L

Gladfield • New Zealand

Ale Malt

Gladfield Ale malt is made from winter grown, English bred, 2-row barley varieties. The malt is fully modified through a traditional long cool germination. Only plump low protein barley is used which allows for higher extract potential and helps eliminate potential protein haze issues in the beer. This is highly friable malt but again the soluble nitrogen ratios are kept relatively low to enhance mouth feel and head retention. The kilning regime gives a nice toasty character with enhanced maltiness for dark ales. This can be toned down for a cleaner malt profile for lighter hoppy ale by adding small amounts of Pilsner malt.

  • Yield: 35.5 oe
  • Color: 2.94416 L

Powells Malt • Australia

Ale Malt

Ale Malt is used to impart typical, warm mellow flavours to all styles of ales. Ale Malt is produced similarly to Lager Malt, but with higher curing temperatures of 95-105 degrees. These higher kilning temperatures are sufficient to remove DMS and grassy flavours, leaving the malt with a biscuit flavour and a hint of caramel and toffee from the oxygen hetrocyclics. Ale Malts are often used to balance higher hop levels.

  • Yield: 35.6 oe
  • Color: 2.53807 L

Crisp • United Kingdom

Amber

Unlike Crystal or Caramalt, the starting material for Amber Malt is a kilned Pale Ale malt. Amber Malt is typically used as a small proportion of the grist (0.5%) in the preparation of beers requiring some substantial depth of color.

  • Yield: 35.1 oe
  • Color: 30 L