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.

European Malts

MCM BAVARIAN PILSNER

MCM Bavarian Pilsner is a German Style Pilsner Malt made from European barley varieties grown here in Montana.

It is malted in a traditional German fashion and has a light-yellow straw color with a clean, grassy, and straw-like characteristic, and undertones of honey and bread crust.

 

MALT FLAVOR AND CHARACTER

Grainy, grassy, straw, and slight notes of honey.

Moisture <5.0 %
Extract >81.5 %FGDB
Color <2.2 ºL <2.2 SRM
Protein <12.0 %

MCM MUNICH LIGHT

MCM Munich Light is our version of a European-style Munich Malt. It has a rich aroma with notes of light caramel, honey and bread, with a clean, rich, and malty flavor.

MCM Munich Light is typically used in dark lagers and ales, 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 lightmelanoidin 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.

MCM Vienna 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

Madison River Melanoidin

MCM MELANOIDIN GOLD

MCM Melanoidin Gold employs a traditional German recipe to produce a high level of complex malt characteristics. This malt will add decoction attribute to your beer that consist of honey, hints of stone fruit and biscuity undertones.

Lower in color than most melanoidin style malts on the market, 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 CARA RUBY

MCM Cara Ruby follows a recipe similar to our Melanoidin Gold, with a high level of air recirculation in the kiln to produce a similar effect of saccharification rest found in mashing.

Higher curing temperatures are also used to drive dark melanoidin flavors that add richness to any style of beer. It is copper in color with flavors of sweet graham cracker and hints of caramel. Typically used at <5% of the grist bill, no more than 15%.

 

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 %

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 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 %
WHEAT

MCM PALE WHITE WHEAT MALT

MCM Pale White Wheat Malt 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, and become 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 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 %

Base Malts

MCM PILSNER

MCM Pilsner is a traditional North American style pilsner malt, 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 slightly higher in protein, color, and enzymes, with quick runoff. The wort is sweet and yellow in color, and is well suited for quick single infusion style mashing.

 

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 %