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Extra Light Dry Malt Extract adds extra body and richness. Great for brewing light lagers and American style beers.

General Info

• Protein: 5.5%
• Max: 7.5%
• pH: 5 - 6
• Sold by the pound

Styles

• Light Lagers
• American Styles

Contributing sweet pronounced caramel flavors to your beer, 2 Row Caramel 60L is a medium crystal malt made with 2-row barley. It imbues a deep gold and reddish hue while improving body and head retention. The more you use the more depth of color and caramel flavors come out, so us this at max 15% of your overall grain bill. Substantially less for a balanced Pilsner.

General Info

• Malt Type: Crystal/Caramel
• Grain Origin: North America
• Wort Color: 60 °Lovibond (160 EBC)
• Moisture: 5.0% max.
• Extract (dry): 77.0% min.
• Diastatic Power: 0 °Lintner
• Usage: 15% max.

Styles

• Dark Ales
• Stouts
• Porters

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.

A great cask conditioned ale strain that produces distinctly malty beers, Wyeast London ESB Ale 1968 Yeast is an extremely flocculent strain that finishes sweeter than most based on it's attenuation level being lower. You will need to rest this beer due to the diacetyl, but after the rest you should be able to produce a bright beer with no filtration. Ales produced with Wyeast London ESB Ale 1968 Yeast tend to be fruity with the fruitiness increased as the fermentation temp increases, 70-74°F (21-23° C). 

General Info

• Origin:
• Flocculation: Very High
• Attenuation: 67-71%
• Temperature Range: 64-72F, 18-22C
• Alcohol Tolerance: 9% ABV

Styles

• English Barleywine
• English IPA
• Extra Special/Strong Bitter (English Pale Ale)
• Fruit Beer
• Mild
• Old Ale
• Southern English Brown
• Special/Best/Premium Bitter
• Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer
• Standard/Ordinary Bitter
• Wood-Aged Beer