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 […]

2022 Global Brewing Supply Award winners, Muntons, launched their Premium Alcohol Free Malt Extract back in March 2021 with the goal of helping all brewers easily produce 0% ABV beers that didn’t just taste good as alcohol-free beers, but tasted great as beers in their own right. Now it is more important than ever to […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

It's World Milk Day! And we have our Alcohol-free Milk Stout Recipe... - 0% Milk Stout! Made from a dilution of Muntons Alcohol free Malt Extract at 4.3KG/HL as the base. We then added 1KG of Roasted malt extract for colour and roast flavour as well as some coffee beans, lactose and cocoa nibs. The […]

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

Muntons, one of the country’s leading suppliers of brewing and distilling malts and malted ingredients, has officially launched its new Premium Alcohol Free Malt Extract. Originally revealed at this year’s SIBA BeerX Online, the alcohol-free liquid extract is now available to commercial brewers both in the UK and abroad. The maltster, which is based in […]

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 […]

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

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 […]

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 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. […]