Victory Malt (Aroma & flavor malt) 25°L

This roasted malt is similar to biscuit malt, but gives the beer a more nutty taste. Victory adds orange highlights to your beer. Use 5 to 15 % to add a fuller flavor and aroma to ales, porters and full flavored, dark lagers where a bigger malt character is desired without crystal malt sweetness.

Thames Valley Ale Yeast

Pitching/Fermentation : The yeast has a light malt character, low fruitiness, low esters and is clean and well balanced.

Notes : This strain produces classic British bitters with a rich, complex flavor profile.

Best Styles : Brown Porter, Dry Stout, Düsseldorf Altbier, Extra Special/Strong Bitter (English Pale Ale), Foreign Extra Stout, Northern English Brown Ale, Robust Porter, Special/Best/Premium Bitter, Standard/Ordinary Bitter

Vanguard hops

Despite exhibiting some similarities to Hallertau Mittelfrüh, surely as a result of their close lineage, this unusual profile gives Vanguard a pronounced woody and herbal character atop a definitive spiciness. The spicy quality is suggested to be particularly evident when Vanguard is used as an early addition.

Vanguard was the final Hallertau-derived variety to come out of the USDA’s hop breeding program and were released to the brewing world in 1997 after a long 15 years of development and testing. They are grown principally in the US and are considered great for adding a European-style aroma component to German-style beers.