Roasted, unmalted barley grain has a full, roasted aroma. Excellent for stouts and other dark beers.

Briess 2-Row Chocolate is a roasted malt made from 2-row barley. It has the flavor of rich, roasted coffee and cocoa and produces a brown color. It is typically used lightly and in darker beer styles like porters, stouts, brown ales and dunkels.

Simpsons Chocolate malt is often regarded as a one of kind specialty malt. It’s highly roasted, although less than the Black Malt. At small percentages, Simpsons Chocolate malt delivers brown colors and toasty flavor notes. When used more generously, it imparts rich, dark colors while lending a subtle burnt toast dryness and hints of bittersweet chocolate flavor.

Dingemans Chocolate malt is roasted at high temperatures and afterwards rapidly cooled when the desired color is achieved. As a result, this malt gives the beer a roasty, chocolate aroma and dark color. Due to Dingemans’ unique production methods, their roasted malts are less astringent.   

Simpsons Export Pale Chocolate is a moderately roasted specialty malt that occupies a warm, flavorful space between Brown Malt and Chocolate Malt. Simpsons Pale Chocolate is notably milder than the standard Chocolate Malt, but it still imparts a strong dark character. Whether you’re adjusting color with a small addition or building up a substantial malt backbone, Pale Chocolate is an excellent choice for Porters, Brown Ales, and Stouts.

Export Pale Brown is a lighter take on our traditional Brown Malt, kilned to a color range of 36-45.3°L. It offers the familiar biscuity, nutty, and lightly toasted qualities of Brown Malt, but with a more restrained roast character and a cleaner finish. Compared to Brown Malt (161.8 – 225.6°L), Export Pale Brown offers far less acrid bitterness or intense dry roast, making it more versatile in a wider variety of styles where balance is key. 

Expect warm cereal tones, subtle coffee, and hints of dry cocoa, with less assertiveness on the palate than darker roasted malts. It brings a pleasant depth to Brown Ales, Milds, Porters and even Amber Lagers when used at 5–15%, depending on the desired intensity. Export Pale Brown is ideal where toasty malt complexity is desired without overpowering darker, more robust flavors. 

Simpsons Black Malt ramps up the dark color and roasted flavors. Roasted at higher temperatures vs. the Chocolate malt, and made from malted barley, this sets it apart from Roasted Barley – this means Simpsons Black malt imparts almost tart, sharp roasted flavor and deep black color, while contributing a smoother and less dry flavor vs. Roasted Barley. Small percentages can result in deep amber and red hues, while larger percentages contribute coal-black opaqueness.

Roasty aroma and dark color with low astringency for stouts, bocks, and other dark beer styles.

Made from the finest German quality wheat. Gently roasted this malt has a high color intensity and aroma.

Sensory: intensive dark chocolate notes, mild-roasted aromatic; coffee and bread notes

Special malt for top-fermented beer styles, typically for:

• Porter; Baltic Porter, American Porter, Chocolate Porter, Imperial Porter

• Stout; Irish Extra Stout, Foreign Extra Stout, Imperial Stout, Russian Imperial Stout

• Belgian Strong Ale; Quadrupel

• German Ale; Altbier

• IPA; Black IPA

• Wheat Beer; Dunkles Weizen, Weizenbock

Weyermann® CARAFA® Special Type 3 is a dark-roasted specialty malt made from high-quality spring barley.  Where malt-based bitterness is not desired, Weyermann® CARAFA® Special Type 3 is a perfect fit.  As the de-husked version of CARAFA®, it produces rich color, body, flavor and aroma without the harsh flavors and astringency typical of dark-colored grains.

Weyermann® CARAFA® Special Type 2 is a dark-roasted specialty malt made from high-quality spring barley. Where malt-based bitterness is not desired, Weyermann® CARAFA® Special Type 2 is a  perfect fit.  As the de-husked version of CARAFA®, it produces rich color, body, flavor and aroma without the harsh flavors and astringency typical of dark-colored grains.

Weyermann® CARAFA® Special Type 1 is a dark-roasted specialty malt made from high-quality spring barley. Where malt-based bitterness is not desired, Weyermann® CARAFA® Special Type 1 is a  perfect fit.  As the de-husked version of CARAFA®, it produces rich color, body, flavor and aroma without the harsh flavors and astringency typical of dark-colored grains.