Everything you need to build your grain bill
Grains and malts form the foundation of many homebrewing and grain-based distilling recipes. Different grains provide different levels of fermentability, colour, flavour, body and enzymatic activity, allowing brewers and distillers to create precisely the characteristics they want.
Our All Grains & Malts collection brings together our full range of brewing and distilling grains, from everyday base malts to specialist roasted grains and pot still ingredients.
Base Malts
Base malts provide the foundation of most all-grain beer recipes and many grain-based distilling recipes. They supply the majority of the fermentable starches while contributing the underlying malt character of the finished product.
Our base malt range includes:
Deluxe Pale Ale Malt
Chateau Pilsen Malt
Deluxe Lager Malt
Fawcett Low Colour Maris Otter
Best Vienna Malt
Best Munich Malt
Deluxe Distilling Malt
These malts provide suitable foundations for everything from pale ales and lagers to malt-forward beers and distilling mash bills.
Specialty & Crystal Malts
Specialty and crystal malts are used in smaller quantities to add colour, sweetness, body, flavour and complexity.
Our range includes:
Fawcett Pale Crystal Malt
Chateau Crystal
Best Caramel Pils
Best Chocolate Malt
Fawcett Black Malt
Bairds Roast Barley
These grains are particularly useful when creating bitters, pale ales, porters, stouts, brown ales and other speciality beer styles.
Adjuncts & Flaked Grains
Flaked grains and brewing adjuncts allow brewers to adjust body, mouthfeel, head retention and fermentability without relying entirely on traditional malted barley.
Our range includes:
Best Wheat
Rolled Jumbo Oats
Loughrans Flaked Maize
Wheat can help improve head retention and body, oats can provide a smoother and creamier mouthfeel, while flaked maize can contribute a lighter and more fermentable character.
Distilling Grains
Our dedicated distilling grains are selected for building grain bills and mash recipes for grain-based spirit production.
These include:
LFM Pot Still Oats
LFM Pot Still Rye
LFM Pot Still Wheat
Loughrans Flaked Maize
Deluxe Distilling Malt
Different grains can be combined to develop different mash characteristics and contribute distinctive flavours to the finished spirit.
Milling your grains
For all-grain brewing and distilling, grains generally need to be milled or crushed before mashing. Milling exposes the starch within the grain while keeping the husk structure suitable for efficient lautering.
The ideal crush depends on the brewing or distilling equipment being used, so choosing the correct milling method is an important part of preparing your grain bill.
Building your grain bill
The combination of grains you choose has a major influence on the finished product. When building a recipe, consider:
Fermentability
Colour
Malt flavour
Sweetness
Body and mouthfeel
Head retention
Roasted character
Enzymatic activity
Desired beer or spirit style
Base malts provide the foundation, while specialty malts, adjuncts and distilling grains allow you to fine-tune the recipe.
Brewing and distilling grains in Ireland
At Hooley Homebrew, our All Grains & Malts Ireland collection brings together everything from everyday brewing malts to specialist distilling grains. Whether you're an all-grain homebrewer, developing your own beer recipes or building a mash bill for distilling, you'll find a wide selection of quality grains to suit your next project.
