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Gluten-Free Recipes and Yeasts, Oh My!

  Looking for inspiration for your next gluten-free brew? Check out the recipes below that utilize Grouse malt and versatile gluten-free liquid yeast options the Gluten-Free Home Brewing currently has to offer. These yeasts come from Propagate Labs in Golden, CO. This month we’re focused on bringing attention to popular beer styles that not only utilize

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Caramel Millet Malts

Grouse Malt House began making Crystal Millet Malt early on in our existence. This started as an artisanal, small-batch process that required quite the premium given the labor involved in its creation.   Over the years, Grouse’s production capacity expanded, as did our knowledge and understanding of specialty malt creation. In mid-2019, we transitioned away

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The Vienna Roasts are Here!

  Grouse Malt House is here to make sure you can make amazing gluten-free beer. So, as part of our ongoing commitment to expand our profile of delicious roasted malts, we began experimenting with and introducing to you our beautiful roasted Vienna Millet Malts. They are made in the same color ranges as our traditional

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Introducing the Dark Munich Millet

About the Malt: Our Munich malt is a fantastic way to take your base malt flavor to another level but our customers and brewing minded team members asked: what if we went a step further? Enter, Dark Munich Millet Malt. This malt is a darker kilned Munich Malt (not roasted) with an 8-10 SRM, light

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Showcase – Porter Recipe

Often, we hear from brewers who are very interested in using our ingredients but are wary of how to use an ingredient that is largely foreign to them. At Grouse, we have developed recipes that can be used as a starting point for new and existing customers. Today we want to showcase a Porter recipe, a

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The Road to the CBC

With the Craft Brewers Conference just around the corner*, and hosted a mere hour away from our location, we are happy to officially announce that we will be hosting a booth at the conference. This is Grouse’s first time having a booth (4264) at the Craft Brewers Conference and Brew Expo America and we look forward to engaging

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Welcome Aboard Goose, Our Newest Upgrade!

In the planning phase of the Grouse start-up, we were faced with a conundrum. Tackle just one thing- malting, which seemed like a big enough feat at the time – or tackle both malting and roasting so that our customers could have a variety of malt and roast options available to make the gauntlet of

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Kilning Experimentation

Since installing our first germination kiln vessel (GKV) in 2017, we’ve been wanting to experiment and push the limits of our kilning capabilities. At the moment, our darkest kilned brand is our Red Wing malt, with a color of 30 – 40 SRM. We knew we could get a darker product, and in May we

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Cosmic Celiac Connection

To celebrate the end of Celiac Awareness Month we thought we would share a littlestory about how Celiac has affected the members of Grouse, and how it inspired our origin story! 12 years ago Grouse’s founder Twila Soles was a grad student at CSU and struck up aconversation with a classmate who was recently diagnosed

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Optimization of Extract and Fermentability of Grouse Malt

Over the past decade, we’ve pushed the limits of flavor and color and now have over 20 malted and roasted millet and buckwheat products for your brewing pleasure. We have also gained an understanding of how to best use Grouse malt when brewing. For example – Don’t pretend non-traditional malts are a direct replacement for barley malt; do utilize exogenous enzymes! While there are still a significant number of variables to explore, we want to communicate some of the insights

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