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Malted Barley & Grains

MALTED BARLEY & GRAINS

Because we offer the best Malted Barley and Grain! Home Distilling/Brewing Craftsman rest assured that you are buying quality barley and grain products. Subsequently, we put your brewing and distilling quality first and foremost.

Hence you, the adventurous Home Distiller/Brewer we know you are, really must try grain. Brewing and distilling to the NEXT LEVEL. Dried germinated barley what’s known as malt. The result, you getting even more out of the seed’s resources this way, simply a win-win situation.

MALTED BARLEY & GRAINS!

Beer Brewer’s out there ideally want Malt-driven flavors to dominate the flavor profiles of beer and it’s brewing. You will expect a degree of sweetness and deep malty notes. Overall notes could include nuts, toffee, caramel, toast and fruit. With our help, your beers can range from copper to dark brown in color and from light to full bodied with a low to high ABV.

For you Moonshiner’s, majority of whiskeys are built on malted barley as the norm. Malted barley produces from nutty and smoky to chocolate or cocoa flavors and a flavor described as cereal or toast resulting in a delicious taste for you to enjoy.

MALTED BARLEY & GRAINS

For your info Malt contains:

  • Fiber
  • Potassium
  • Folate
  • Vitamin B6

For instance malt’s known to lower cholesterol and decrease the risk of heart disease in all consumers. Therefore malt as a result helping reduce insulin activity and increases cholesterol absorption from the gut. Malt goes on to encourage cholesterol breakdown and as a result your experience health benefits as mentioned above.

The fact that we distill and brew, now that’s open to us to discuss over a drink…

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Malt Vienna

As well as!

Hops

To summarize Hops are a key ingredient in the production of beer. Adding a variety of flavors and aromas, including floral, citrusy, and herbal notes. Helping to balance out the sweetness of the malt and provide a bitter effect to the beer. Hops help to act as a natural preservative, keeping beer fresh for longer.

How to use them.

Used in brewing for centuries as an essential ingredient for the production of beer. The use imparts flavor, aroma, and bitterness to beer. Generally, added to the boiling wort in the kettle. Boiled for an hour or two, which serves to isomerize hop alpha-acids and impart bitterness to the beer. At the end of the boil, a amount of hops then added to the kettle for a “whirlpool” or “hopback” process. Notably giving the beer added flavor and aroma. Dry hopping, an increasingly popular technique of late. The addition after the boil and during fermentation, which imparts intense hop aroma without adding much bitterness.