Our recommendation on the

Best Malt for Lagers

These are the standard malts we recommend to use for brewing lagers.

Using one of our malts in a flagship product or existing recipe may result in richer, bolder flavors and is not always recommended. Please drop us a line if you have questions about the specific characteristics of our malts.

Avalon Pilsner

This malt utilizes the newly released Avalon variety that is kilned at low temperatures, but still packs a tremendous amount of flavor. Mouthfeel is rich, complimented by fresh melon, honeysuckle, and a touch of coconut water.
Base Camp

This malt is produced from a proprietary mix of 2-row barleys. The flavors are clean and grassy. Good for all hop forward styles.
Chesapeake Pilsner

This malt is produced from 2-row barley sourced exclusively from Virginia growers. Provides a nice balance of bready and floral flavors. Great for lagers and hop forward styles.
Cumberland Pilsner

This malt is produced from 2-row barley sourced exclusively from Tennessee growers. Provides a nice balance of bread dough and sweet aromatics. Great for lagers and hop forward styles.
Czech-Style Pilsner

This malt is produced from 2-row barley sourced exclusively from Southeastern growers. Provides a nice balance of bready and floral flavors. Great for traditional lagers.
Great Chit

This under-modified malt is produced using Southern-grown 2-row barley. Contributes to foam stability and mouthfeel in IPAs and Lagers. Use it in place of raw grains or dextrin malts.
Regenified™ Southern Select

This is produced using 100% 2-row Avalon barley grown on a certified farm in Maryland. This product is our first Regenified release, recognizing the value of regenerative agriculture to soil, waterways, and the planet at large. Regenerative farming employs a multi-faceted approach to build soil health and encourage carbon sequestration. Look for aromas of sugar cookie, melon, and honey in the finished malt. Mouthfeel is rich, exhibiting a creaminess not often encountered in a Pale Ale style malt.
Southern Select

This malt uses a blend of regionally sourced 2-row barley varieties. Flavors include notes of biscuit, fresh grassy and honeysuckle. Perfect for Lagers or Session IPAs.
Vienna

This malt is produced from a proprietary blend of 2-row barleys. Richer and slightly darker than Southern Select with a breadier profile.
Light Munich

This malt is a blend of 2-row barley varieties. With rich flavors of fresh bread and honey, this product is good for German Bocks, Helles and American Single Malt recipes.
Dark Munich

Produced using a blend of 2-row barley varieties, this malt has notes of baking spices, chocolate, toast and stone fruit. Perfect for Brown Ales, Barleywines and German Doppelbocks.
6-Row Pilsner

This malt is from a barley grain and has flavor notes of grass, grain and honey. Perfect for Farmhouse and Mixed Culture Saison styles.
Heritage Malt

This malt is from a barley grain with biscuity, grassy and honey flavor notes. The product is good for a Belgian Dubbel or Bourbon recipe.
Appalachian Wheat

This malt is produced using soft red wheat. The flavors are baked artisan bread and toast. Good for Hefeweizen and Farmhouse styles.
Golden Wheat

This malt has been a part of our custom program for several years and we decided to release it as our Fall seasonal for 2024. Top quality white wheat is germinated and kilned like our Vienna. We get big notes of breakfast cereal in the finished product. Think Golden Grahams swimming in a nutty, freshly made pie crust.
Pecan Smoked Wheat

This malt is produced using our Appalachian Wheat and locally-sourced Pecan wood. The pecan imparts a delicious, fruity that blends perfectly the bread notes of the malted wheat.
Cumberland Corn Malt

Made from a food-grade dent corn from Tennessee, this malt has an earthy and fresh, sweet cornbread flavor. Good for American and Pre-prohibition lagers.
Bloody Butcher Corn

This malt is produced using corn grain. This product is good for American Lager or Bourbon.
Crystal 20 Malt

Crystal 20 is produced using a proprietary kilning technique that mimics the stages of a standard roasting profile without the intense heat. The result is a truly crystalized malt that delivers light caramel and toffee supported by hints of pumpernickel and black tea. Try it in a multi-grain lager or pub ale recipe.
Crystal 50 Malt

Crystal 50 is produced using a proprietary kilning technique that mimics the stages of a standard roasting profile without the intense heat. The result is a truly crystalized malt that delivers syrupy smooth toffee supported by hints of coffee and dark chocolate. Try it in a classic American Pale Ale or English Brown recipe.
Honey Malt

Honey Malt is inspired by the "brumaltz" produced in Germany. This technique starves the germinating grain of oxygen and sets the table for a unique suite of chemical reactions to take place prior to kilning. Kilning temperatures are similar to our Light Munich. Pronounced sweet notes of maple syrup and fig lead off with a finish that blends in black tea and oak tannins. Try it in a classic Belgian Dubbel or English Brown recipe.
Hull and Oats

This malt, produced from oats contains high protein levels that give them a distinguished mouthfeel making them good for NEIPAs and Stouts.

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Plow To Pint Pilsner

We worked with Fullsteam Brewing Company to develop a custom floor-malted Pilsner using a blend of the new Avalon and Violetta 2-row barley varieties. Now they use it as a base malt for many of their recipes.

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Fig Wood Smoked Pilsner

This custom smoked malt was created using fresh cut fig limbs from the Riverside Rhapsody Brewing Company property.

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Biltmore Pale Malt

Made from 2-row barley grown at Biltmore Estate, this Pale Malt is rich and bready.

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Farmhouse Pilsner

Little Animals and Leveller Brewing Company created a Pilsner malt steeped in custom water profile designed to mimic the hard water from Belgium. Learn more on the All About Beer podcast.

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Straight Rye Whiskey

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Old Tuffy

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Orange Krush

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Smith Mountain Lager

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Tennessee Haze

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Cerveza

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All Malt

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Grambling Woods Rye Malt Whiskey

Grambling Woods Rye Malt Whiskey from Tarpon Springs Distillery.

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Tennessee Whiskey (Bottled in Bond)

Tennessee Whiskey from Leiper's Fork Distilling Company.

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Dark Rhythm Gin

Dark Rhythm Gin from Oak and Grist Distilling Company

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Italian Pilsner

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Mystik Bock

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Appalachia

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Regent’s Rye Tripel

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Riverbend Rye

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