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Yes! Things were dramatic there for a bit, but we are proud to join forces with the team at Carolina Malt as a partner in our next chapter. Our roasting equipment has been relocated to their state-of-the-art facility in Cleveland, North Carolina, from where all of our malts will now be manufactured and shipped. We are actively fulfilling orders, so get in touch!!

Just about. We did consolidate a few overlapping products between the two of us to reduce confusion and better manage production timelines. Carolina's Pale and Vienna malts will replace ours, as will their Chit, Malted Wheat, Munich Light (in place of Munich 9), and Munich Dark (in place of Munich 15). M&R's Virginia Pils and English Pale will remain available and are produced to our strict technical parameters to ensure flavor and performance consistency.​ 

M&R's five Crystal malts (15, 40, 60, 80, 150), and eight dry-roasted malts are produced on M&R's drum roaster using M&R's recipes. They are now offered alongside Carolina Malt's variety of base and high-kilned malt selections, as well as a few options we've never offered like malted Seashore Black Rye and Carolina Gold Rice to form a portfolio of 32 total products.

You can expect the same high-quality grain sourcing you are accustomed to, including access to products made with Virginia-grown grain. We will continue to contract directly with Virginia growers, and assess grain quality across the Commonwealth's annual grain harvests. That said, M&R products may also be made from NC-grown grain from time to time. As part of the partnership, M&R and Carolina Malt are combining their respective grower networks and that is a good thing! By doubling our grain sources, we can be even more discerning in our selection of acceptable grain lots in light of ever-changing weather patterns and growing conditions. Virginia-grown grain will be selected first for all M&R products, to the extent a given harvest year allows. Carolina Malt's products will be produced with predominantly NC-grown grain.

Here's how to get started (or pick up where you left off):

1. Complete our onboarding form. It takes about 5 minutes and, once submitted, you can consider your account established (or fully transitioned) and ready for orders.

2. Email your order to orders@murphyrudemalting.com. Please include your desired landed date, and specify milled or whole. 

3. We will respond with a formal Sales Order as acknowledgement and confirmation that it is in the system for fulfillment.

4. We will provide freight tracking so you can keep an eye on your delivery.

5. Once shipped, invoices will come from Carolina Malt, not M&R.

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Murphy & Rude Founder Jeff Bloem is still your point of contact for M&R customer inquiries about both M&R and Carolina Malt products, or any other details or specifics you need.

We have officially moved out of our production facility in Charlottesville but if you are close to Carolina Malt's facility in Cleveland, NC, you are more than welcome to pickup your order there. They will be happy to see you.

You sure can. Products from each brand are accessible under our newly consolidated Product List and can be combined on single orders. The product list identifies the brand of each malt so there is no confusion around whose is whose. 

We agree; and yes, possibly. If you previously picked up your orders from our now-closed facility in Charlottesville, please know that we constructed our recent price reductions to offset the previously-avoided freight component of your order.  For example: a full-skid (2,000lb) order is now, on average, $400 lower than it was before. With an average freight bill costing $200-300, the price reductions help cover that added cost. 

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Hand delivery via Carolina Malt's liftgate-equipped box trucks is also available for our more south/southwest VA customer locations. Please inquire upon ordering if you want to explore this option. We are actively assessing the possibility of new routes, and while they will likely occur on specifically set days of the week, we are doing everything we can to provide this alternate option. 

This partnership introduced a solution to one of M&R's biggest, most troublesome, and most nagging problems.  SCALE!  With scale comes cost efficiencies, and what we've gained there we have passed on to you in the form of significantly reduced prices.  If you are still referencing an early 2026 (or earlier) price sheet, please send an email or request a product list and we'll quickly follow-up with product pricing.

The GrainStore will be closed while we find it a new home. Rest assured homebrewers, we are actively looking for one and will communicate any updates as soon as we have them. 

This was not a sale, acquisition, or corporate merger. Rather, we have forged a strategic partnership that combines operations while keeping Carolina Malt and Murphy & Rude Malting separate companies. By combining operations, M&R's malt production, order fulfillment, shipping, and invoicing simply move under one roof - Carolina Malt's roof - while preserving our respective brands.

This partnership benefits everyone involved, including you.  M&R benefits from Carolina Malt's exponentially higher production scale (a nagging problem for M&R that has been difficult to solve) while Carolina Malt benefits from M&R's diversified product list and specialty malt production equipment and expertise. M&R customers benefit from significantly reduced malt prices by way of increased batch scale, as well as fewer out-of-stocks and/or backordering. Both customer bases benefit from a one-stop-shop malt supplier by way of access to both of our products lists in a single order.