Craft is our middle name.
Like you, we take pride in our work and craftsmanship. While malting is a relatively simple process, great malts are created through a biochemical dance with Mother Nature, requiring years to master and perfect.
Blending art and science, our Maltsters work directly with you to design innovative flavor profiles that create distinctive products – and happy consumers. We also offer a wide variety of our own malts to infuse your creations with outstanding flavor.
Producing up to 10,000 tonnes of malt annually, we focus on unique, specialty craft products with consistent quality and approachable pricing. We maintain independent batch data so Brewmasters – and their customers – know exactly where their ingredients originated.
We believe in traceability, truth, and transparency — from farm to keg, and seed to bottle.
Base Malts
MCM PILSNER
MCM PILSNER is a traditional North American style pilsner malt. Our pilsner malt is fully modified for single infusion mashing. MCM Pilsner is kilned to maintain a low color and drive off DMS. This malt creates a wort that is yellow in color with flavors of straw and slightly sweet honey notes.
MALT FLAVOR AND CHARACTER
Grainy, sweet, straw, and slight notes of honey.
| Moisture | <5.0 | % |
| Extract | >80.0 | % FGDB |
| Color | <2.19 ºL | <2.2 SRM |
| Protein | <12.5 | % |
MCM 2-ROW
MCM 2-ROW is comprised mostly of Montana dryland barley. This malt is slightly higher in protein, color and enzymes with quick runoff. It is well suited for quick single infusion style mashing. Wort is sweet and yellow in color.
MALT FLAVOR AND CHARACTER
Sweet, grainy, and honey.
| Moisture | <5.0 | % |
| Extract | >80.0 | %FGDB |
| Color | <2.4 ºL | <2.5 SRM |
| Protein | <13.5 | % |
European Malts
MCM BAVARIAN PILSNER
MCM BAVARIAN PILSNER is a traditional European style pilsner malt that uses European barley varieties grown in Montana and the PNW. Malted in fashion that is found in most German malthouses, MCM Bavarian Pilsner creates a clean, grassy and straw-like characteristic with undertones of honey and bread crust. This malt produces a light-yellow straw color wort.
Our current single varietal offering is 2023 Steffi™ and Francin BAVARIAN PILSNER . This variety creates a truly traditional German pilsner malt that can be used in single infusion as well as step mashing.
MALT FLAVOR AND CHARACTER
Grainy, grassy, straw, and slight notes of honey.
| Moisture | <5.0 | % |
| Extract | >80.0 | %FGDB |
| Color | <2.1 ºL | <2.2 SRM |
| Protein | <12.5 | % |
MCM MUNICH LIGHT
MCM MUNICH LIGHT is our version of a European-style Munich Malt with a clean, rich, malty flavor. Munich Light has a rich aroma with notes of light caramel, honey and bread, with a very malty flavor.
Munich malt is typically used in dark lagers and ales, especially Munich-style lagers, various bock styles, and German festival beers like Festbier and Märzen. This malt’s dark gold hue makes for great color in any of your dark lagers and ales.
MALT FLAVOR AND CHARACTER
Rich toasty maltiness, sweet, full body & mouthfeel.
| Moisture | <5.0 | % |
| Extract | >80.0 | % FGDB |
| Color | 4.3-6.5 ºL | 5-8 SRM |
| Protein | <12.5 | % |
MCM BRITISH PALE
Our MCM BRITISH PALE MALT goes through an intense final curing cycle to drive light melanoidin flavors of bread crust, toast and biscuity baked goods. This malt creates just enough complexity to be well suited for session beers, IPAs and stouts.
MALT FLAVOR AND CHARACTER
Bready, biscuity, toasty, and sweet.
| Moisture | <5.0 | % |
| Extract | >80.0 | % FGDB |
| Color | 2.3-2.9 ºL | 2.4-3.2 SRM |
| Protein | <12.5 | % |
MCM VIENNA MALT
MCM VIENNA MALT is similar to our British Pale malt but with a more intense kilning cycle to drive flavor. This malt can be used at 100% without being overbearing. Great if used by itself to create many styles of dark lager and amber ales or at lower percentages to add complexity to pale lagers, IPAs, and pale ales.
MALT FLAVOR AND CHARACTER
Bready, biscuity, toasty, and sweet.
| Moisture | <5.0 | % |
| Extract | >80.0 | % FGDB |
| Color | 2.4-4.25 ºL | 2.5-5.0 SRM |
| Protein | <12.5 | % |
Specialty Malts
MCM MELANOIDIN GOLD
MCM MELANOIDIN GOLD employs a traditional German recipe to produce a high level of complex malt characteristics. Our Melanoidin Gold is typically lower in color than most melanoidin style malts on the market. This malt will add decoction characteristic to your beer that consist of honey, hints of stone fruit and biscuity undertones. It will lend a unique layer of complexity to pale lagers, festbiers, pale ales, IPAs and stouts. Grist bill recommendations are <10% for light colored beers and <20% for stouts.
MALT FLAVOR AND CHARACTER
Intense honey sweetness, slight stone fruit, and biscuity malt undertones
| Moisture | <5.0 | % |
| Extract | >80.0 | % FGDB |
| Color | 4.9-10.1 ºL | 6-13 SRM |
| Protein | <12.5 | % |
MCM PALE WHITE WHEAT MALT
MCM PALE WHITE WHEAT is made from low protein soft white winter wheat. White Wheat has a low enzyme package, high extract potential and a lot of haze development. Flavors are very clean and doughy, becoming bready and sweet in the boil. This malt is typically used at <50% in the grist bill but can go up to 80% if rice hulls are employed. MCM Pale White Wheat Malt is well suited for all wheat beer styles and hazy IPAs.
MALT FLAVOR AND CHARACTER
Bready, doughy, clean, and slightly sweet.
| Moisture | <6.5 | % |
| Extract | >83.0% | FGDB |
| Color | 2.4-3.5 ºL | 2.5-4.0 SRM |
| Protein | <11.5 | % |
MCM DEXTRIN
MCM DEXTRIN is used to enhance head retention, haze and body in any style of beer. Higher protein barley undergoes a short germination process to ensure a higher level of dextrins and higher molecular proteins. This malt is typically used at 5% and no higher than 10%.
MALT FLAVOR AND CHARACTER
Grainy and Raw Barley.
| Moisture | <7.0 | % |
| Color | <2.04 ºL | <2.0 SRM |
| Protein | <13.5 | % |
MCM CARA RUBY
MCM CARA RUBY follows a recipe similar to our Melanoidin Gold, with a high level of air recirculation in the kiln that produces a similar effect to a saccharification rest found in mashing. Higher curing temperatures are used to drive dark melanoidin flavors that add richness to any style of beer. This malt is typically used at <5% of the grist bill and no more than 15%. MCM Cara Ruby produces a copper color that has flavors of sweet graham cracker and hints of caramel.
MALT FLAVOR AND CHARACTER
Intense honey sweetness, graham cracker, and biscuity.
| Moisture | <5.0 | % |
| Extract | >80.0 | % FGDB |
| Color | 13.8-15.3 ºL | 18-20 SRM |
| Protein | <12.5 | % |