Two Malt Houses. One Product Portfolio.
Crafted by two premier Mid-Atlantic malt houses—Murphy & Rude Malting Co. (VA) and Carolina Malt House (NC)—our unified product portfolio brings together the best of both operations under a single lineup. Explore 32 carefully developed products spanning six malt categories: Base Malts, Adjuncts & Alternatives, Bavarian Series, Crystals, Dry Roasted, and the Cimmerian Line. Every one of our products delivers the diversity, consistency, and performance you need for every recipe.
Base Malts
These tried and true styles are the building blocks of great craft beer and spirits.
Virginia Pils
Lightly modified and cured at low temperatures to unveil the terroir of Virginia by way of earthy flavor attributes (straw, dry grass, mineral). Low in color to provide a very light, clear, crisp wort. Great for European-style lager brewing
Color: 1.5-2.2L
Grist: Up to 100%
Awaiting 2026 Harvest Results
Carolina Gold
Pale Malt offering the utility and balance of American 2-row brewers malt. Well-modified and moderately kilned to control color and maximize brew house performance. A great choice for IPA, pale ale, American-style lager, and all-malt distilling.
Color: 2-3L
Grist: Up to 100%
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Seashore Black Rye
Grown in the mineral-rich Blacklands soil of Pamlico County, NC, Seashore Black Rye delivers a licorice & dried fruit-forward flavor profile with natural sweetness and coffee-like richness honed by centuries of harsh coastal conditions.
Color: 2.5-3L
Grist: Up to 40%
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Carolina Pilsner
Kilned at cure temperatures slightly lower than Virginia Pils to display a light straw color, clean taste, and high conversion potential that lends well to both lagers and ales.
Color: 1.8-2.2
Grist: Up to 100%
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English Pale
Well-modified pale ale malt kilned to slightly higher temps at the end of curing to release the slightest bit of nutty sweetness (Grape Nuts®, saltines, sunflower seed, honeysuckle) and unlock hints of pretzel and pizza crust. Also a great choice for distillers.
Color: 3-3.5L
Grist: Up to 100%
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Red Wheat Malt
With slightly higher protein than white wheat, Soft Red Wheat carries a pale color and a malty-sweet flavor with gentle tones of honey and walnuts. It's high protein brings a creamy mouthfeel and improved head formation/retention, producing a fuller-bodied beer.
Color: 2-3L
Grist: Up to 60%
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Options best used for adding flavor, body, mouthfeel, or improving foam.
Adjuncts &
Alternatives
Chit Malt
A head retention powerhouse originally conceptualized by German brewers to circumvent the Reinheitsgebot's prohibition of raw grain. Germinated only briefly to preserve foam-friendly protein and pentosans typically broken down during full-modification malting, Chit malt is a more effective alternative to dextrin malt.
Color: 2L
Grist: Up to 10%
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Malted Corn
This 100% NC-grown #2 yellow Dent corn is a more flavorful, turnkey substitution for flaked maize, bringing a sweet, slightly savory corn flavor, reminiscent of corn pudding.
Color: 2L
Grist: Up to 30%
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Malted Gold Rice
Dating back to 1685, this heirloom rice of the Carolinas boasts a rich, nutty flavor. Once milled, it does not require a cereal mash and will contribute a crisp, dry finish to lagers.
Color: 2-3L
Grist: 10-30%
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Rolled Oats
Old-Fashioned Style (thicker cut) buckeye oats from Quaker Oats. A favorite for Hazy IPA, rolled oats add body, haze, softness, or silkiness to any style, including Pale Ale and Stout.
Color: 2L
Grist: Up to 20%
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Buena Vista Yellow
LIMITED TIME: An open-pollinated heirloom dent corn grown by R.P. Hart & Son in Virginia's coastal plain. Hand-selected from a multi-color landrace variety, this predominately yellow corn is speckled with red and pink kernels. Flavors of Corn Flakes®, sunflower seed, and dry grass make it great for American lager, cream ale, and Common.
Color: 2L
Grist: Up to 30%
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Raw Red Wheat
Fantastic option for improving mouthfeel, body, and head retention in classic wheat styles or hazy IPA's. Excellent for turbid mashing (Belgian Lambic) or barrel aged beers.
Color: 1.5L
Grist: Up to 15%
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Malted Oats
Hulled Gerard 224 Oats undergo our proprietary germination and kilning schedule, resulting in a beautifully bright, plump oat malt that lends subtle flavors of breakfast cereal, oatmeal cookie, and hints of vanilla. Post milling, the hulls provide additional filtering medium for clean, efficient lautering much like rice hulls.
Color: 2L
Grist: Up to 50%
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Rice Hulls
Filtering medium for improved lautering
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Bavarian Series
Our Bavarian Series is designed to inspire a brewer’s creativity to craft compelling and distinctive beers leveraging malt-forward flavors.
Vienna
Graham cracker sweet but still light in color, this malt is produced to encourage maillard-derived melanoidin development (biscuit, biscotti, honey). It is cured at moderate temperatures to preserve enzymatic activity and achieve it's characteristic golden wort color. Perfect as a base for malt-forward ales & lagers, or for adding flavor and depth to lighter styles.
Color: 3.5-6L
Grist: Up to 100%
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Dark Munich
Cured at higher kiln temps than Light Munich, and for longer, adding intense maltiness and rustic flavors of toffee, toasted bread, and malty sweetness. This specialty malt adds color, depth, and dimension to styles such as amber lager (Oktoberfests), Schwarzbier, Dunkel, altbier, bock, porter, and stout at just 5-10% of grist. A worthy equivalent to M&R's former Munich 15.
Colors: 20-30L
Grist: Up to 30%
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CaraMel Dark
LIMITED TIME: A kiln-roasted hybrid caramel-melanoidin malt straddling mid-color crystal and dark Munich malts. Flavors of whole-grain cracker, rustic bread crust, brown sugar, and candied fruit.
RIYL CaraMunich-style malts.
Color: 70L
Grist: Up to 30%
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Light Munich
Slightly over-modified during germination, stewed, and then cured at higher kiln temps than Vienna to boost color and malty flavor intensity. Light Munich is just enzymatic enough to be the backbone of any malt-forward beer but also robust enough to play backup, adding body at just 10-15% of grist. It imparts a vibrant amber color and strong notes of freshly baked bread and wild honey. A great equivalent to M&R's former Munich 9.
Color: 8-12 L
Grist: Up to 50%
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Melanoidin
LIMITED TIME: This Bavarian-stye malt delivers rich maltiness with flavors of toasted bran cereal and biscuit with a dark honey sweetness. Great for both rich and lighter styles such as amber ale, Scottish ale, Irish red, bock, or Kellerbier
Color: 12L
Grist: Up to 25%
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Crystals
Crystal malts add vibrant color to both extract and all-grain recipes while the unfermentable dextrins add sweetness and improve foam formation.
Crystal 15
Green malt is taken directly from germination to our drum roaster where it is uniformly gelatinized, dehydrated, and then roasted to a wide range of color specs. Flavors of clean straw and sugar cookie.
Color: 12-18L
Grist: 5-15%
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Crystal 60
Green malt is taken directly from germination to our drum roaster where it is uniformly gelatinized, dehydrated, and then roasted to a wide range of color specs. Flavors of brown sugar, vanilla, and stone fruit.
Color: 55-65L
Grist: 5-15%
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Crystal 150
Green malt is taken directly from germination to our drum roaster where it is uniformly gelatinized, dehydrated, and then roasted to a wide range of color specs. Flavors of charred toffee, dark caramel, dried cherries.
Color: 140-160L
Grist: 5-15%
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Crystal 40
Green malt is taken directly from germination to our drum roaster where it is uniformly gelatinized, dehydrated, and then roasted to a wide range of color specs. Flavors of brown sugar, vanilla, and stone fruit.
Color: 36-44L
Grist: 5-15%
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Crystal 80
Green malt is taken directly from germination to our drum roaster where it is uniformly gelatinized, dehydrated, and then roasted to a wide range of color specs. Flavors of brown sugar, vanilla, and stone fruit.
Color: 75-85L
Grist: 5-15%
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Dry Roasts
Roasted malts contribute a wide range of flavors and aromas to beers and spirits—including caramel, toffee, charred sugar, nutty, biscuit, chocolate, and coffee, with hues ranging from golden straw to caramel red to deep brown.
Biscuit
A fantastic malt for adding body, smoothing out competing dark malt flavors, or delivering buttery or baked dough sensory attributes mid-palate. Biscuit malt is also a great selection when seeking additional body for sessionable beers without adding significant color.
Color: 20-25L
Grist: Up to 20%
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Americano Roast
Previously known as Milk Chocolate, this pale chocolate roast brings flavors of mocha, espresso coffee, and a touch of burnt toffee.
Color: 250-280L
Grist: Under 10%
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Bakers Cocoa
Our dark chocolate malt delivers a very smooth, mild burnt (but not acrid) flavor with a roasted cocoa underbelly. Lower in bitterness than our Americano Roast.
Color: 400-450L
Grist: Under 10%
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Belgian Breakfast
Built upon a higher kilned base malt to deliver exponentially more depth than a traditional Amber malt. Flavors of biscuit bottom, roasted peanut shell, toasted Grape Nuts®, Bran Flakes®, and hard pretzel, with the slightest bite in the background. Think big Belgians, Fall seasonals, spiced beers, Double IPA
Color: 35L
Grist: 10-25%
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Chocolate Wheat
Packing all of the roastiness of our barley-based Americano Roast, this malt contributes a nitro-like velvety foam and silky mouthfeel to any mid-to-dark beer. A great choice for Black IPA, Porter, Stout, or any recipe where a smoother finish is desired.
Color: 280-300L
Grist: 5-10%
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Roasted Barley
Unmalted with similar dark chocolate roastiness to Bakers Cocoa with some smoke and char but restrained bitterness . Produces tan-colored foam.
Color: 480L
Grist: Under 10%
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Cimmerian Line
Our line of black malts offers the smooth character of naturally-debittered wheat. The range of colors provide options to serve any beer styles ranging from amber to black.
Cimmerian Wheat
Naturally debittered black malt that delivers a slightly lighter color than Cimmerian Black with the added silkiness and head retention of malted wheat. RIYL: Carafa Special® II or Midnight Wheat® malts
Color: 400-450L
Grist: Less than 10%
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Cimmerian Black
Naturally debittered wheat-based black malt that is a notch darker than Cimmerian Wheat. RIYL: Carafa Special® III or Blackprinz®
Color: 510-540L
Grist: Less than 5%