The Grains
Our Malts
Each malt is produced on our Kaspar Schulz 10-ton automated system on the farm in Queen Creek, with full lot traceability from grain receipt through finished bag. A Certificate of Analysis is provided with every batch.
Ready to brew with them? Every malt is available in 50-lb bags — to order, email quade@homesteadmalting.com; breweries can also order in bulk or request a quote, and homebrewers have a dedicated ordering page.
Bohemian Mesa
Czech-Style Pilsen Malt | Specialty Release
Arizona-grown, Bohemian-built. A proteolytically undermodified, fully cytolytically modified pale malt engineered for Czech-style decoction brewing — with the enzymatic reserves to carry an all-malt mash through three rests and still finish clean.
Padre Kino
Heritage White Sonora Wheat Malt | Heritage Release
Arizona-grown, Sonoran-rooted. A heritage soft white wheat malt revived from the Padre Eusebio Kino expeditions of 1685 — malted on-site for the modern brewer who wants distinctive nutty-sweet wheat character with full diastatic muscle.
Arizona Heritage
Pale Malt | Flagship — lot AH0926CO26LDF in stock
Arizona-grown, protein-rich. Copeland 2-row from Lonesome Dove Farms, malted in Queen Creek into a light, bready pale (1.7 °SRM) with serious enzyme power — 154 °L diastatic power and 187 mg/L FAN. The Arizona sun grows a protein-rich barley (13.8%): more body, foam, and enzyme headroom, and a firmer endosperm that rewards a step mash.
Brew it with a beta-glucan rest: 104–113°F (40–45°C) for 15–20 minutes, then convert at 148–154°F. Single-infusion systems: add a beta-glucanase and rice hulls.
Order by email — $55 / 50-lb bag →
View lot COA + recommended mash (PDF)
Vienna
Vienna Malt | First release — malting now
Arizona-grown, kilned golden. Our first Vienna: protein-rich Arizona Copeland 2-row given a long, warm germination and a humid melanoidin rest in the kiln for a golden color (3–5 °SRM) and a bready, honeyed malt depth. Built for Vienna lagers, Märzen, and amber ales.
The first Vienna batch is on the malting floor now — reservations ship with the batch CoA.
Desert Gold
Pilsner Base Malt | Flagship — limited: last 4 bags of the current lot
Arizona-grown, kilned light. A delicately kilned 2-row barley Pilsner malt built for the lager tradition — clean, neutral, and maximally fermentable, with the enzymatic muscle to support decoction or step mashing in classic Pilsner and Helles grists.
Distiller's Malt
High-DP Base Malt | Distillery Release
Arizona-grown. High-DP. Built to carry the still. A 2-row barley malt engineered for craft distillers running high-adjunct mash bills — 174 °L diastatic power, 207 mg/L FAN, and a clean, low-β-glucan wash profile give distillers the enzyme headroom to push corn, rye, wheat, or oat ratios further without compromising conversion or fermentation.
Ute Moonstone
Raw Cracked Blue Maize | Native Heritage Release
Tribal-grown, indigo-hearted. An organic, non-GMO heritage blue maize cracked to a rough adjunct profile for craft distillers and brewers. Grown by the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe on the Towaoc, Colorado, reservation — anthocyanin-rich kernels carrying the deep indigo color and earthy-sweet maize signature that distinguishes blue corn from commodity #2 yellow.