The Stowmarket-based maltster, Muntons, has joined forces with HEINEKEN UK as part of one of the UK’s leading regenerative malting barley programmes, designed to support farmers to adopt more sustainable and resilient farming practices at scale. Farmers will be directly paid a premium on regenerative barley yields, helping to reduce the risk of changing farming […]

Muntons has been awarded a Platinum EcoVadis Sustainability Rating, placing the business in the top 1% of companies assessed worldwide by the globally recognised sustainability ratings platform. This is the seventh consecutive year Muntons has secured an EcoVadis rating at either Gold or Platinum level, with the 2026 ranking seeing the maltster move from Gold […]

Muntons is pleased to announce a new partnership with Best Way Foods, a leading supplier of professional ingredients for the food industry and distributor and importer of global brands in Ukraine. This partnership strengthens our presence in Eastern Europe and opens new doors for collaboration in both our Malted and Malted Ingredients divisions. Under our malt business, we’ll be […]

Muntons, a global leader in malt and malted ingredients, has been awarded with a Gold EcoVadis Sustainability Rating for 2025, maintaining its position among the top 5% of companies assessed worldwide. It is the sixth year running Muntons has achieved an EcoVadis rating, which is a globally recognised platform that assesses and rates business sustainability performance. […]

Muntons, the award-winning Stowmarket-based malt and malted ingredients manufacturer, has been showcased to Dr Peter Prinsley MP during a special visit. Dr Prinsley, who is the MP for Bury St Edmunds & Stowmarket, toured Muntons’ headquarters in Stowmarket to learn more about the operations and global reach of the 104-year-old maltster. During his visit, Dr […]

Firstly, we were thrilled to win the Environmental & Sustainability Award against some stiff competition, including British Sugar and Spectra Packaging. The judges praised our passion for sustainability, our vision and our continuous drive forward, and the incredible results we’ve achieved so far. We then went on to be crowned overall Suffolk Business of the Year, an […]

Want to learn more about MaltiChoc™? Enter your email address below and we’ll send you all the information you need. Muntons, Europe’s largest manufacturer of malt extract and malted ingredients, has expanded its range of its innovative cocoa replacer, MaltiChocTM. MaltiChocTM R500 has been developed as a match for reduced fat cocoa powders and works […]

Muntons, the malt and malted ingredients manufacturer is celebrating another record year having exceeded £20m in earnings (EBITDA) for the first time. The maltster held its Annual General Meeting on Saturday 17th May following the publication of its first integrated Annual Review & Sustainability Report. Shareholders heard that the company achieved £20.2m EBITDA in the […]

Muntons is supporting a new regenerative agriculture lighthouse project which is being led by the Sustainable Markets Initiative (SMI), an organisation founded and sponsored by King Charles III. The ‘Routes to Regen’ project is taking place across the East of England throughout 2025 and aims to support farmers to adopt more sustainable or regenerative farming […]

Malt, as a raw material, accounts for c.22% CO2 emissions of a litre of craft beer. Muntons’ Climate Positive Malt offers up to 30% lower carbon emissions per tonne compared to UK malt average. Climate Positive Malt launched at BeerX 2025 in Liverpool today.   Muntons, a global leader in sustainable malt production, is redefining […]

After over 34 years of service, Paul Wells, Muntons Chairman, is stepping down. Paul joined as a director in 1990 and became Chairman in 2013, overseeing decades of growth. Within that period, Muntons expanded from two to four sites (including one in Thailand), now sells in 60 countries, and nearly tripled production from 90,000 to […]

Muntons, the Suffolk-based malting company, were honoured to welcome His Majesty’s Lord Lieutenant of Suffolk, Clare, Countess of Euston, to their Stowmarket facility in Suffolk, on Thursday 20th February. Lady Clare presented the award along with a formal citation signed by King Charles and Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Muntons won the Kings Award for Sustainable […]

An innovative malt grain manufacturer, headquartered in Suffolk, is accelerating progress on its sustainability goals by becoming one of the first recipients of HSBC UK’s Sustainability Improvement Facility. Muntons PLC secured an £83.8 million funding package from HSBC UK, which has allowed the business to invest further in its sustainability initiatives. The funding from HSBC […]

On Wednesday, 11th September 2024, our Management Team from the MITL site in Thailand participated in a community clean-up drive, collecting litter from nearby areas to ensure that recyclable materials were properly sorted and disposed of. The WHA Project WeCycle is an inspiring initiative dedicated to promoting sustainable waste management and recycling practices and aims […]

  What is UPF? Whilst there is no officially recognised definition of UPF, the most widely adopted method is the NOVA Classification system. This defines UPF as “…formulations of ingredients, mostly of exclusive industrial use, typically created by series of industrial techniques and processes (hence ‘ultra-processed’).” Are Muntons products UPF? Using the NOVA Food Classification […]

With the cocoa price skyrocketing in recent times, the market is desperately looking for a solution – and Muntons Maltichoc Dried Regular is a proving a sustainable alternative without impacting the quality of any product application. In recent years, we have seen that cocoa bean production is in an overall decline with cocoa prices surging […]

We are pleased to announce the appointment of Andrew Reeves as General Manager for Asia Pacific, leading the production, sales and technical operations in the region. With over two decades of experience in leadership positions within the food and beverage industry, and over 15 years’ experience in APAC markets, Andrew brings a wealth of knowledge […]

Muntons has been honoured with a prestigious King’s Award for Sustainable Development, recognising its excellence in world leading sustainability initiatives. The Suffolk-based malting company who supplies products to the into the food & soft drinks, brewing and distilling industries. The award recognises the monumental efforts taken to reduce their environmental impact both up- and downstream […]

Muntons, Northern Monk and Toast teamed up to brew a low carbon beer using regenerative grain and surplus bread to celebrate Earth Day 2024. Using regenerative barley from Muntons, and fresh, surplus bread supplied by Toast, this 5.0% Pale Ale, One for the Earth, commemorates Earth Day, an annual event to demonstrate support for environmental […]

Muntons has been honoured with the coveted Gold Award for Maltsters under c.350t per annum at the RMI Conference Brewing Supply Awards in Rome. This achievement, announced on March 7, 2024, showcases Muntons' commitment to sustainability and innovation within the global brewing supply chain.  The awards are regarded as a benchmark for excellence in the brewing […]

Muntons were announced winners of the SIBA Sustainable Business award on Wednesday 13th March at this year’s BeerX UK event. The award recognises businesses that take the ethics of environmental awareness and sustainable business operation way beyond the norm and minimise environmental impact. The award celebrated just some of the sustainability achievements from Muntons over […]

Muntons has once again been awarded the highest rating of Platinum by the world's most trusted sustainability ratings platform, EcoVadis for 2023. Having been awarded a platinum medal in 2022, Muntons is delighted to have been recognised as moving their sustainability programmes on further to achieve the highest rating once again for 2023 with even […]

  The Suntory Group, headquartered in Osaka and with a diverse global portfolio of consumer beverages including whisky, beer, gin and soft drinks, has signed up to an innovative regenerative agriculture trial with Suffolk based maltster, Muntons plc, to explore how barley can be grown in a more sustainable way to reduce Green House Gas […]

Muntons Launch PlantMalt for Clean, Plant-Based Food Full of Flavour The plant-based market is booming but the challenges of meeting consumers’ high expectations in matching meat-based counterparts is keeping innovators busy. Working with an industry expert consultant and pulling on their own extensive knowledge of malt, Muntons is launching PlantMalt to help manufacturers achieve their […]

The people and organisations helping shape the future of Suffolk have been recognised in the new edition of the Suffolk 100. First produced by Archant in 2010, the Suffolk 100 profiles those who make a difference in the county. The 2022 edition features senior business leaders from many of the county’s largest firms, which make […]

Having not had access to brewery tap rooms for much of the last two years, any intrepid craft beer lover has missed being the first to share in brewers’ innovations.  This has inspired award-winning maltster and developer of leading home brewing beer kits, Muntons, to give you a way to bring the joy of the […]

Muntons is delighted to be bringing the prestigious Cow Bell Award back to their global headquarters in Stowmarket having, once again, scooped Global Brewing Supplier of the Year at the 11th World Barley, Beer and Malt conference held in Antwerp, Belgium in March. The Global Brewing Supply Awards recognise excellence in the supply of malt […]

Wioleta Butrynowska - Malt Extract Shift Leader Muntons I have worked for Muntons for 13 years now as a Shift Leader in the malt production plant and mill. Juggling shift work with family life can sometimes present its challenges but once you have the routine of a work life balance set up it becomes much […]

Muntons is delighted to be given the rating of A- for Supplier Engagement on Sustainability by the CDP.  We are extremely proud of how actively engaged we are with our supply chain championing sustainability as one of our core business values. Technical and Sustainability Director for Muntons, Nigel Davies, comments, "This is the second time […]

Celebrating International Day of Women and Girls in Science 11th February 2022 Ever wondered how our food and drinks look and taste so good? It's not magic. It's science.  Well, with a little help from the magic ingredient of malt. We talked to Ebony-Rose Grant-Knox, who works for Muntons as a Laboratory Quality Control Analyst. […]

Behind great malt, you will find great people. At Muntons we have always understood the importance of our people in delivering the best products and services to our customers. In order to ensure our production team is made up of the best in the business we support their entire career journey. As we celebrate Apprenticeships […]

Today, Thursday 3 February 2022, is Time to Talk Day. Mind and Rethink Mental Illness have co-organised the awareness day, and it’s a day about encouraging friends, families, and colleagues to talk to each other about their mental health. Muntons and Mental Health With an easy to access Employee Assistance Programme, which provides free services […]

Nigel Davies, Director of Technical and Sustainability, is to step-down from Muntons on 5th April, following a tenure of almost a quarter of a century. Leaving in the spring, Nigel will move on to focus on his consultancy and will continue to be a sustainability advisor to the 100-year-old maltster. The long-standing Director has been […]

We're delighted to announce that EcoVadis has awarded us a platinum medal in sustainability performance. This rating puts us in the top 1% of global companies assessed and further highlights us as a leader in sustainability. EcoVadis is the world's largest independent corporate social responsibility (CSR) rating agency and assesses over 85,000 businesses in 160 […]

On Wednesday 5 January, everybody at Muntons was excited to watch our few minutes of fame on BBC 2, and watch Inside the Factory - Malt Loaf, which provided the inside scoop on a national favourite, the malt loaf. In the first episode of the new series, viewers will watch as Gregg Wallace visits Soreen’s […]

CORONAVIRUS 2019-nCoV STATEMENT Update December 2021 We have put in place measures designed to take care of our team members at Muntons and our partners in the supply chain. We have aligned our guidance with the UK Government's advice to ensure that we play our part in helping contain and delay the spread of the […]

Congratulations to our own Brewing and Distilling Malt Sales Manager, Joe Fifield, who's been recognised for achieving the country's highest result in his industry exams! Joe, who supports customers across London, Southern England and Wales, completed the General Certificate of Malting (GCM) last year and achieved a credit grade. The malting industry’s trade association, the […]

Trigger Warning - the following piece talks about death by suicide and cancer.  Each year, communities around the world honour International Men’s Day on 19 November. The emphasis of the day is to showcase men who make a positive difference to society and focus on men’s health and wellbeing issues. At Muntons, we’re once again […]

Sustainability Initiative of the Year Award Muntons, the 100-year-old manufacturer and supplier of malt and malted ingredients, has won the Baking Industry Awards' newest category: the Sustainability Initiative of the Year Award (sponsored by Macphie), for its bio-energy plant at its Stowmarket site. The maltster's biomass heating system, along with the co-generation of electricity, represents Muntons' commitment […]

On World Mental Health Day 2021, we introduced team members to the first group of volunteers who've signed up to be our Wellbeing Buddies. The scheme, which is the first of its kind at Muntons, saw a recruitment drive launched during Mental Health Awareness Week in May. Since then, ten team members have kindly agreed […]

Muntons, the Stowmarket based malt and malted ingredient manufacturer, is kicking off a year of celebrations in honour of its 100th year in business. The maltster plans to mark its anniversary with a series of commemorative events to celebrate the business’ longevity. Plans include gifts and a family fun day for team members, an Olympic […]

Muntons has been presented with the Environmental Leadership Award at the 2021 Food and Drink Federation's awards, for its latest in sustainability innovation, a bio-energy plant at its Cedars Maltings headquarters in Stowmarket! The ceremony has returned to the Royal Lancaster this month (16 September) for the first time since 2019, to celebrate everything that […]

HEINEKEN UK is launching an innovative trial to explore how one of the main ingredients of beer, barley, can be grown in a more sustainable way to help reduce CO2 emissions. The trial is a collaborative effort between HEINEKEN UK, malt supplier Muntons, supply chain consultancy Future Food Solutions and Yorkshire-based barley farmers. In the […]

Want To Be Part Of Designing Muntons’ Next Homebrew Kits? Of Course You Can-Can!   Muntons, a global manufacturer and supplier of brewing and distilling malts and malted ingredients, has kicked off a competition to design the next range in its craft homebrewing kit portfolio. Due to launch in 2022, the Suffolk based maltster is […]

Monday 2 August marked the day we received the first harvest delivery day of the year at Stowmarket. A day which is important for us, our farmers and customers alike. As is the tradition since 1978, we have written the date down on a girder inside our intake building to celebrate the first crop deliveries of […]

MUNTONS LAUNCHES NEW HOMEBREW RANGE 40 YEARS AFTER FIRST HOMEBREW LINE WAS INSTALLED AT FACTORY   Muntons, one of the country’s oldest suppliers of brewing and distilling malts and malted ingredients, has launched a new range of homebrew kits. The new Muntons Flagship range focuses on craft beer enthusiasts, offering contemporary beer more typically seen […]

The grain team at our headquarters in Stowmarket has reviewed the current crop situation and released the following report.   To view full crop report Click Here

New Team Members Join Muntons Thanks to Government Kickstart Scheme The Kickstart Scheme Muntons, one of the country’s leading suppliers of brewing and distilling malts and malted ingredients, has joined forces with the Department for Work and Pensions, as a Kickstart Scheme Employer. The scheme supports 16 to 24-year-olds who've been in long-term unemployment and are […]

Andrew Leedham, our Senior Marketing Manager, joined Muntons in September 2020. With a love for beer (as well as golf and chocolate), Andrew was more than happy to roll his sleeves up and learn more about our homebrew kits, all in the name of work! So, as part of Learning at Work Week, we asked […]

When making malt extract, our evaporation process generates significant volumes of liquid condensate. To be as efficient as possible, we collect this in our water tanks and reuse it where it is most useful. Whenever our buffer tanks reach capacity, we then divert the condensate to our wastewater treatment plant (WWTP). However, by working closely […]

The grain team at our headquarters in Stowmarket has reviewed the current crop situation and released the following report.   To view full crop report Click Here

In this Master Brewers podcast episode 206, host John Bryce talks with Muntons Technical and Sustainability Director Nigel Davies about practical sustainability and the carbon footprint of barley. Nigel Davies also shares some case studies and discusses how & why every brewery should take a practical approach to sustainability. Follow this link to listen to […]

Apprenticeships aren’t just for school leavers. How Muntons is creating the leaders of the future with its apprenticeship scheme. Muntons has been running its current apprenticeship scheme, better known as the management trainee programme with the West Suffolk College, since 2017. Ellie Smith, who’s been with Muntons for 11 years, is currently completing her Institute […]

The grain team at our headquarters in Stowmarket has reviewed the year’s quality and quantity of the barley intake and we’re now able to report on our 2020 crop. To view full crop report Click here

As we wrap up our 99th year, we wanted to take some time to not only reflect on the achievements we’ve made and the obstacles we’ve faced, but also offer our gratitude and thanks to our customers. We know this has been a very tough year for many businesses throughout the industries that we support. […]

Muntons, the UK’s leading malt product manufacturer and distributor, is set to slash its carbon emissions by 23,545 tonnes per year in an exciting new partnership which will see a 14MW biomass boiler installed at its Stowmarket site. The project is being led by AMP Clean Energy which will operate the energy and steam supply […]

Muntons, one of the country’s leading supplier of brewing and distilling malts and malted ingredients has kicked off a working from home wellbeing programme. The maltster, which is based in Stowmarket and has sites in Bridlington, the USA and Thailand, is encouraging team members to take time away from their screens by rolling out a […]

The Sugar Dilemma - There is a growing lobby of people seeking to control the amount of sugar included in a balanced human diet. Often when one component of the diet is singled out for attention those involved in nutritional or medical research take strongly entrenched views that are difficult to understand for those buying […]

On Saturday 31 October, Boris Johnson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, announced that as of Thursday 5 November, England will be placed under a second COVID-19 lockdown. These measures will last at least until Wednesday 2 December. Muntons’ manufacturing operations are not affected by these new rules and we will continue to operate safely […]

Generating energy locally... Working in conjunction with AMP Clean Energy, Muntons, the Stowmarket based malt and malted ingredient manufacturer, has signed an agreement to install a new Energy Centre at their site in Stowmarket. The new energy centre will be located in the North-West corner of their site and will include a Biomass boiler, a […]

The Coronavirus Pandemic has made 2020 an exceptionally difficult year for all of us, our families, our friends and for our businesses. We, and others in our industry, have had to make some difficult decisions to ensure that we are all protected from the covid-19 virus.  Amongst the precautions which have proved necessary has been […]

On Friday 4th September Liz Truss the Secretary of State for International Trade along with Muntons local MP Jo Churchill visited the company to meet with Mark Tyldesley, Muntons Managing Director, and Neil Pearmain, Muntons Ingredients Sales Director, to discuss concerns over possible Brexit outcomes. During the course of the visit, the Minister was given […]

Making malt is not enough for one UK maltster.  Muntons based in Stowmarket, Suffolk, have just announced that they have reached a genuine milestone having generated 10 million Kilowatt hours of electricity since opening their Anaerobic Digester (AD) plant in 2015, enough electricity to power 2,000 average sized homes every year. Muntons AD plant has […]

Muntons is proud to be the first maltster to commit to the Food Waste Reduction Roadmap coordinated in the UK by WRAP, a not for profit organisation and IGD research and training charity. Muntons, the malt and malted ingredient manufacturer based in Stowmarket, Suffolk, have long been recognised as the leader in sustainability within the […]

The measures we have put in place are designed to take care of our colleagues at Muntons and our partners in the supply chain. We have aligned our guidance with the UK government advice to ensure that we play our part in helping contain and delay the spread of the coronavirus.

In the current climate of Covid19 and national lockdown we at Muntons have been contacted by our partners in the brewing industry to support them with solutions to keep one of their most valuable employees alive. I’m of course speaking about every brewers’ house yeast, that needs to be fed with wort on a regular […]

Muntons are proudly sponsoring the 2020 National Bakery Awards! Open to all bakeries throughout the UK, both retail and wholesale, the National Bakery Awards celebrates your hard work. Those entering need to choose their best individual site within the business – be that a production bakery or retail shop – with our judges choosing the […]

Muntons the malted ingredient and malt manufacturer based in Stowmarket Suffolk and Bridlington in North Yorkshire has officially opened a new £6.4 million Peating plant in Yorkshire. The plant is situated in a remote rural area in the Yorkshire Wold around an hour from our Bridlington maltings which produces over 100,000 tonnes of malt a […]

Beer drinkers these days seem to be drinking less but drinking better, served by the growing number of craft breweries and the increasing diversity of beer styles on offer to the beer aficionado.  Amongst the raft of delicious new beers available is a steadily growing trend towards beer ‘sours’ which have proved to be particularly […]

Muntons Malt customers clean up at Scottish Beer Awards Muntons, the maltster and malted ingredient manufacturer, recently hosted a table of Scottish craft brewing customers at the annual Scottish Beer Awards held in Edinburgh’s Corn Exchange on 19th September, an event organised by KD Media, attracting over three hundred brewers and representatives at the ceremony. […]

Muntons take steps to limit impact of hard Brexit As uncertainty continues surrounding the outcome of Brexit, one local company has taken the decision to mitigate potential risks by applying for and achieving Authorised Economic Operator (AEO) status through HM Revenue and Customs. Muntons, manufacturers of malt and malted ingredients based in Stowmarket have successfully […]

Muntons the malted ingredient and malt manufacturer based in Stowmarket Suffolk has just announced a £4.5million investment in their local plant to Increase their malt extract capacity. A new 27-metre high building is being constructed on their Stowmarket site to house the new multi stage evaporator, which will demand involvement from both local design, mechanical […]

Originally constructed as a Joint Venture operation, on 22nd March 2019 Muntons completed the full purchase of their malted ingredients vacuum band drying manufacturing plant in Thailand. The plant is now wholly owned by Muntons PLC and the facility is called Muntons Ingredients (Thailand) Limited. The purchase cements our position as a global manufacturer and […]

Muntons is know the world over as a manufacturer of the highest-quality malt extract.  Mention malt extract and brewers will recognise this ingredient as something predominantly used in the food and baking industry, as a sweetener, a flavour enhancer or just for its wonderful malt flavour.   There is however a dramatic difference between malt extracts […]

Muntons toasted barley flakes are un-malted, lightly toasted, pre-gelatinised barley flakes.  Recently introduced into our range of malted and un-malted ingredients, toasted barley flakes can be used in a wide variety of brewing applications. The light toasting of the barley flakes brings an interesting complexity to the flavour and aroma of beers, whilst also adding […]

This exceptionally pale malt is ideal for brewers looking to create the palest ales possible while still retaining sufficient body to ensure a full mouthfeel.   Super pale has been created with two main point in mind:  As low a colour as possible and the ability to play really well with hops.  By using a specifically […]

Planet is Muntons new flagship spring barley variety, now replacing Propino as the most popular spring brewing variety of malting barley grown in the UK.  Planet has proved to so versatile, it has become the most widely grown cereal variety in the world. We are blessed in the UK with arguably the prime climate for […]

The craft beer movement having concentrated largely on traditional ales, porters and stouts is now showing interest in Lager.  Traditional bottom fermented lagers, matured or ‘lagered’ for weeks or months at low temperatures, develop a character and drinkability far removed from the chill filtered, highly carbonated beers traditionally sold as lager in the UK. Muntons […]

We have been making the finest malts for nearly 100 years, and during that time beer styles have come and gone.  One beer style we are particularly happy to see return is traditional British Mild.  The return to fashion of this classic beer style has meant that we could once again make a mild ale […]

We are proud to announce the launch of our new Melanoidin Wheat Malt.  This innovation in speciality malt is the result of numerous trials to achieve the perfect balance between an aromatic Maillard product and toasty biscuit notes.  These qualities make this malt an ideal choice for the brewer looking to enhance their beer style […]

It is usual for malting barley varieties to be grown for typically five to ten years, until they are superseded by newer, higher yielding and more robust varieties.   Maris Otter however is the exception. Although there have been many varieties with higher yields and extracts, none have managed to remove Maris Otter from its position […]

Cara Malt 10 is Muntons lowest colour crystal malt.  With its light colour and mild flavour, Cara Malt 10 can be added to even the lightest beer styles without affecting the core flavour profile. This malt is designed to bring body, improve mouthfeel and add character to beers, although the degree of effect will depend […]

In light of the uncertainty surrounding Brexit, we are doing all we can to mitigate any potential risks which may arise. To that end, we are currently working hard to achieve an HMRC recognised accreditation which will enable us to become an Authorised Economic Operator (AEO).  This is a status which exists across the UK […]