OUR PHILOSOPHY
MALT LESS TRAVELED
Our malts are produced in smaller batches and sold directly to you, helping you deliver maximum flavor, color, and aroma in your finished products. By intentionally selecting ingredients that shorten and strengthen the regional supply chain, you are choosing better flavor, closer supplier relationships, and more stable pricing in a market dominated by a commodity-market mentality.
THE FRESHEST
INGREDIENTS
The flavors and aromas of higher-color malts can diminish over time. That’s why ingredients made closer to home make fresher, bolder beers and spirits. Our shorter batch turnover maximizes the impact of our products on your grain bill, creating the color, flavor, and aroma that your customers notice while differentiating you from the pack.
ONE STOP
SHOP
Our wide array of malt options-spanning 35 different products- allows us to work hand-in-hand with craft breweries and artisan distilleries of any size and any production model to provide the exact ingredients you want with the flavor profiles you need. Choose Murphy & Rude as your source for base, adjunct, high-kilned, crystal, hybrid, and dry roasted malts from a variety of grain types.
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TRACEABLE
SOURCING
We proudly partner with the best small grain farmers in Virginia and the Mid-Atlantic to ensure ideal malting-quality grain. Every bag of Murphy & Rude malt can be traced to the exact farm and field from which the raw grain was harvested, while providing a story that your customers can relate to.
We believe that malt captures and defines the attitude of every craft beer and spirit, and at Murphy & Rude Malting Co., we feel our name captures ours. Named for our ol’ dog Murphy (representing time-honored traditions) and our young pup Rudy, aka Rude (representing innovation and adventurous creativity), our brand personality - and malt production processes - combine these traditional methods and approaches with creative experimentation and innovative techniques to create radical malts for revolutionary products.
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Our focus is this:
Obsess over the attributes of flavor, color, and aroma-influencing specialty malts and then produce them from a variety of small grains grown both in and outside of Virginia. By applying a wide range of germination, kilning, stewing, drum roasting, and smoking applications, we deliver malt with personality and attitude.
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Murphy & Rude Malting is your hand-in-glove supplier of fresher, more flavorful ingredients sourced closer to home. Thanks to our small scale, we are positioned to be the perfect partner in the creative process that fuels innovation in craft beer and craft spirits.
Define Your Attitude. Feed Your Craft.
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