Riverbend Malt House
Brent Manning and Brian Simpson founded Riverbend in Asheville in 2010, the first craft malt house east of the Mississippi. It is now the first Certified Regenified malt house in the world.
Grain comes from family-owned farms inside roughly a 500-mile radius of Asheville. They still hand-rake grain on a traditional malting floor alongside modern germination-kiln vessels, and in 2025 they supplied more than 300 breweries and distilleries.
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Double Kiln Munich
Double Kilned Munich goes through Riverbend's kiln twice. It is made from 2-row barley grown on family-owned farms across the Southeast, and it lau...
View full detailsHull and Oats
Hull and Oats is a floor-malted oat from Riverbend, made from Brooks, an oat variety developed in North Carolina and prized for its high protein. T...
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Riverbend Honey Malt is made in the German brumaltz tradition. The germinating grain is starved of oxygen before kilning, which drives the sugar de...
View full detailsGreat Chit
Great Chit is a highly under-modified chit malt made from Southern-grown 2-row barley in North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee. Germination is cut...
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Cumberland Corn is malted corn, made by Riverbend from non-GMO food-grade yellow dent corn grown in Tennessee. Because it is malted rather than raw...
View full detailsMunich Rye
Munich Rye is Riverbend's darker rye malt, made from Wrens Abruzzi, an heirloom rye that has been grown in the South for more than 200 years. It is...
View full detailsAppalachian Wheat
Appalachian Wheat is a malted soft red winter wheat grown in the Southeast. Riverbend's malted wheat took silver in the wheat category at the 2024 ...
View full detailsCrystal 80
Riverbend Crystal 80 is the darkest malt in their portfolio, a 2-row crystal malt crystallized to 70 to 90 SRM. They added it as a deliberate step ...
View full detailsCrystal 50
Riverbend Crystal 50 is a mid-range crystal malt made from 2-row barley and crystallized by Riverbend's proprietary kilning process. At 45 to 55 SR...
View full detailsCrystal 20
Riverbend Crystal 20 is a true crystal malt made from 2-row barley by a proprietary kilning process that mimics the stages of roasting without the ...
View full detailsLight Munich
Riverbend Light Munich is a kilned specialty malt made from 2-row barley grown in North Carolina, Virginia and Tennessee. Higher kiln temperatures ...
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Riverbend Vienna is a lightly kilned specialty base malt made from regionally grown 2-row barley. It runs the same kiln schedule as their Light Mun...
View full detailsCzech Pilsner
Czech-Style Pilsner is Riverbend's under-modified base malt, built to emulate the malts of the Hana valley in the eastern Czech Republic. They get ...
View full detailsChesapeake Pilsner
Chesapeake Pilsner is a Pilsner-style base malt made from Violetta 2-row barley grown in Virginia. It came out of Riverbend's custom malt program a...
View full detailsBase Camp
Base Camp Extra Pale is Riverbend's flagship base malt, made in Asheville from a proprietary blend of regionally grown 2-row barley. Kilning runs c...
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