The foundation of your brew
Base malts are the most important grains in many beer recipes and grain-based distilling recipes. They provide the majority of the fermentable starches needed during the brewing or mashing process while also contributing flavour, colour, body and character.
Choosing the right base malt is an important part of building a successful grain bill, whether you're brewing beer or preparing grains for distilling.
Pale Ale Malt
Deluxe Pale Ale Malt is a versatile base malt suitable for a wide range of beer styles. It provides a balanced malt character and forms an excellent foundation for pale ales, IPAs, bitters and other malt-forward beers.
Pilsen Malt
Chateau Pilsen Malt is a light-coloured base malt designed for clean, delicate beer styles. It is particularly well suited to pilsners, lagers, Belgian beers and other pale beers where a light malt profile is desired.
Lager Malt
Deluxe Lager Malt provides a clean and subtle malt character, making it an excellent foundation for lagers and other light-coloured beers. Its restrained flavour allows hops and yeast character to remain prominent.
Maris Otter
Fawcett Low Colour Maris Otter is a premium British base malt known for its distinctive traditional malt character. The low-colour formulation makes it particularly useful when you want the flavour of Maris Otter while maintaining a lighter finished beer.
It is ideal for British ales, bitters, pale ales and traditional beer recipes.
Vienna Malt
Best Vienna Malt provides a richer malt character and deeper golden colour than standard pale base malts. It can be used as part of a base malt bill or to add additional malt depth to lagers, Vienna-style beers, amber ales and other malt-focused recipes.
Munich Malt
Best Munich Malt adds rich, deep malt flavour and increased colour to a beer. It is commonly used to enhance malty lagers, amber beers, bocks and darker beer styles, either as part of the base or as a supporting malt.
Distilling Malt
Deluxe Distilling Malt is specifically suited to grain-based home distilling. It provides the fermentable starch and enzymatic potential required during mashing, making it an important foundation for grain-based spirit production.
Brewing and distilling base malts in Ireland
At Hooley Homebrew, our base malts Ireland collection includes a selection of quality grains for both beer brewing and distilling. Whether you're producing a classic British ale, a crisp lager, a rich malt-forward beer or developing a grain bill for distilling, our base malts provide the foundation you need for your next batch.
