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Thomas Fawcett | Crushed Maris Otter Pale Ale Malt

Maris Otter is the most famous and widely celebrated British barley malt, renowned for its exceptional flavour and reliability. With its rich, biscuity, and slightly nutty profile, it forms the backbone of countless award-winning traditional ales, bitters, and IPAs. Its excellent enzymatic properties and consistent performance make it a favourite among both home brewers and professional breweries. If you want a malt that guarantees depth, character, and a true British ale experience, Maris Otter is the perfect choice.

Why Choose Dark Rock Malts and Hops?

At Dark Rock Brewing, we help you “Master Your Craft” and brew beers that rival commercial quality. Using only the freshest, highest quality malts and hops, our ingredients ensure your home brewed beers taste exceptional every time.

Drawing on years of experience as commercial brewers and suppliers to small scale breweries, we bring professional expertise to home brewers through our carefully sourced ingredients, innovative kits, and practical guidance. Our All Grain and Part Grain kits consistently receive glowing reviews—proving that with Dark Rock, you have the tools to craft beers you can be proud of.

About Thomas Fawcett Malts

Thomas Fawcett & Sons is a seventh-generation family maltster based in Castleford, West Yorkshire, producing premium malts on the same site for over 200 years. Combining traditional floor malting with modern technology, they craft more than 30 different malts in small batches to ensure consistent quality, depth of flavour, and character.

Only the finest barley varieties—such as Maris Otter, Golden Promise, Halcyon and Pearl are used, alongside malted wheat, rye, and oats, giving brewers a full spectrum of ingredients to create distinctive beers. Their specialist roasting plants produce coloured and crystal malts of all styles, trusted by some of Britain’s most iconic breweries including Theakston’s, Timothy Taylor’s, Titanic, Sam Smith’s, Butcombe, and Hobsons.

In the Midlands, Sarah Hughes and Church End breweries (both Fawcett malt users) recently won top honours at the Great British Beer Festival, a testament to the quality that runs through every sack of Fawcett malt.

When you brew with Thomas Fawcett malts, you’re using the same ingredients that have shaped award-winning beers for generations.

Traditional Floor Malting

Floor malting is a traditional method where barley is spread out on malting floors and carefully turned by hand as it germinates. This slow, hands-on process allows maltsters to closely monitor every stage, producing malts with exceptional consistency, depth of flavour, and character that larger, automated systems often cannot achieve. At Thomas Fawcett & Sons, floor malting is combined with generations of expertise and modern germinating and kilning vessels (GKV), ensuring every batch meets their exacting standards. By producing malts in small, carefully controlled batches, Fawcett can extract the full potential of each barley variety, creating malts that add richness, complexity, and distinctive taste to your beer. It’s this meticulous approach that makes Fawcett’s floor malts prized by brewers across the UK, from iconic breweries to award-winning local producers.