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Family-owned British maltster · Since 1921

Flavour from the ground up.

We turn British barley into the malts and malted ingredients behind great beer, whisky and food. And we make them in the UK’s lowest-carbon maltings.

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  • EcoVadis PlatinumTop 1% worldwide, 2026
  • King’s AwardSustainable Development, 2024
  • 60+ countriesSupplied from Suffolk, Yorkshire and Thailand

  • 1921

    Founded in Bedford. Family-owned ever since.

  • 250,000

    tonnes made a year, nearly three times our output in 1990

  • 60+

    countries supplied with our malts and ingredients

  • 59%

    less Scope 1 & 2 carbon than our 2010 baseline

What we make

What are you making?

Malt is the start of beer, whisky and countless foods. Choose yours and we’ll show you where to begin.

A pint of pale ale beside a can of One For The Earth, brewed with Muntons regenerative barley, with bread and barley

Brewers

Malt for every beer, from crisp lager to imperial stout.

Base, crystal, roasted and speciality malts, plus liquid malt extracts, for global brands and craft brewers alike. All our spring sacked malts are now Climate Positive Malt, with up to 30% less carbon than the UK average. Planning something new? Our brewers will trial it with you, or for you, in our development brewery.

  • Maris Otter®
  • Pilsner & lager
  • Crystal 110 to 400
  • Chocolate & black
  • Liquid malt extracts
  • Flakes & torrefied wheat

The Cow Bell Award, Global Brewing Supplier of the Year, 2022

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The malt range

From the palest pilsner to the blackest roast.

The same grain, kilned or roasted a little longer, gives you honey, biscuit, toffee, coffee or chocolate. Slide through our brewing range to find your flavour.

Base malt

Super Pale Ale Malt

Our lightest pale malt: the full flavour of an extra pale with two-thirds of the colour.

Brew it in IPA, bitter, golden ale, light beers

Available as Climate Positive Malt

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Distilling? Our peated malts run from lightly peated to 90+ ppm. Distilling malts Making food? Our extracts and flours go from pale to ultra-dark too. Food & drink

Sustainability

Lower-carbon malt. Proven, not promised.

Green claims are easy to make, so we publish the data. We’ve been cutting carbon from malting since 2007. Now we’re working with farmers on the biggest part of malt’s footprint: growing the barley.

  • 59%

    less Scope 1 & 2 carbon than in 2010

  • Top 1%

    EcoVadis Platinum 2026, our seventh straight year at Gold or Platinum

  • 2

    biomass energy centres, one at each UK maltings

  • 2040

    our new science-based target for net zero

Climate Positive Malt: up to 30% lower carbon.

Malt makes up around 22% of a craft beer’s carbon footprint. Our Climate Positive Malt brings regeneratively grown British barley together with our low-carbon maltings, and every spring sacked malt we make is now Climate Positive.

Malting (Scope 1 & 2)Barley farming (Scope 3)kg CO₂e per tonne of maltSource: Muntons, from publicly available data and the Euromalt barley emissions factor.
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Regenerative barley, at scale.

We started trialling regenerative farming with HEINEKEN UK in 2021. Now we’re part of its UK programme, which pays farmers a premium on regenerative barley. By 2027, around one in two pints HEINEKEN UK brews will use it. We’ve also run trials with Suntory, and we support the Sustainable Markets Initiative’s Routes to Regen project.

How we work with farmers
EcoVadis Platinum sustainability rating, top 1%, July 2026 The King’s Awards for Enterprise: Sustainable Development 2024
  • King’s Award for EnterpriseSustainable Development, 2024
  • EcoVadis PlatinumTop 1% of companies rated, 2026
  • Suffolk Business of the YearEADT Business Awards, 2025
  • SIBA Sustainable BusinessBeerX UK, 2024
  • Brewing Supply Awards GoldThird in a row, 2024
  • Global Brewing Supplier of the YearThe Cow Bell Award, 2022

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Ingredients & innovation

There’s more in malt.

Malt brings natural sweetness, colour, flavour and texture to food and drink. Our innovation team keeps finding new jobs for it, from replacing cocoa to giving plant-based food real bite.

Broken pieces of milk chocolate

MaltiChoc™ cocoa replacer

The cocoa match, made from malt.

MaltiChoc™ swaps 1:1 for cocoa in compound chocolate, bakes, cereals, spreads and drinks, with no reformulation. It’s clean label, steadier in price than cocoa and emits up to 96% less CO₂e.

MaltiChoc™ D1000
Matches a range of cocoa powders. Ideal for brownies, cakes and biscuits.
MaltiChoc™ R500
Matches reduced-fat cocoa. Ideal for drinks, milkshakes and ice cream.

How much carbon could you save?

tonnes
50%

1,557 tonnes of CO₂e saved a year

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Based on Muntons’ figures of 32.4 kg CO₂e per kg of cocoa and 1.26 kg per kg of MaltiChoc™.

Plant-based meatballs and sausages roasted with vegetables

PlantMalt: real ingredients for plant-based food.

Clean-label, GMO-free malted grains that give meat alternatives colour, malty flavour and bite. Made from 100% sustainable malt.

  • Mill Roast 1250
  • Slow Cooked 1000
  • Slow Cooked 800
  • Kiln Stout 250
  • Cut Grain 30
  • Filter Roast 3
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What malt does for a recipe

  • Natural flavourMade from cereals, malt lifts sweet and savoury recipes alike.
  • Colour without E numbersFrom a golden crumb to our ultra-dark extracts.
  • Texture and biteMalted wheat flakes and kibbled Nuttimalt add crunch.
  • Less sugar and saltMalt enhances flavour, so recipes need less of both.
  • Faster bakesA little malt flour can cut bread roll bake times by 17%.
  • A clean labelDeclared simply as barley malt extract.
The benefits of malt

Our story

Passionate about malt since 1921.

Munton Baker-Munton started making British malt extract in a disused Bedford brewery in 1921, with the Wells brewing family as partners. More than a century on we’re still family-owned, and two members of the Wells family sit on our board.

Being independent means we can think in decades, not quarters. Our profits go back into malt: into energy-efficient kilns, a peating plant in Yorkshire, and the Muntons Academy, which is training our future Master Maltsters.

We’re proud of our heritage, but we’re equally focused on the future.

Mark Tyldesley, Chief Executive
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Munton Baker-Munton
Munton Baker-Munton, who founded the business in 1921

105 years in eleven moments

  1. 1921

    Founded in Bedford

    Munton Baker-Munton sets up in the disused Phoenix Brewery, owned by the Wells family.

  2. 1948

    Moves to Stowmarket

    We take over a 45-acre site in Suffolk. It’s still our home.

  3. 1964

    Bridlington maltings

    Built to supply northern brewers and the Scotch whisky trade.

  4. 1976

    Cedars Maltings

    Our Stowmarket maltings, named after the cedar trees around it.

  5. 2007

    Asia and sustainability

    Our Singapore office opens, and we start to lead the way on sustainable malting.

  6. 2015

    Waste into energy

    An anaerobic digester at Stowmarket cuts waste and makes electricity.

  7. 2019

    Peat, biomass and Thailand

    A peating plant and a biomass boiler in Yorkshire, and our malted ingredients plant in Thailand.

  8. 2021

    100 years

    We celebrate our centenary and start building the Stowmarket energy centre.

  9. 2024

    The King’s Award

    For Sustainable Development: the UK’s most prestigious business award.

  10. 2025

    Climate Positive Malt

    The UK’s lowest-carbon malt for craft brewers, launched at BeerX.

  11. 2026

    Top 1%, again

    EcoVadis Platinum, HEINEKEN UK’s regenerative programme and the Muntons Academy.

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Careers

Grow your career in malt.

More than 300 people make Muntons, in Suffolk, Yorkshire, the Netherlands, Singapore and Thailand. With the new Muntons Academy there’s training at every stage, from professional qualifications and leadership development to becoming a Master Maltster.

  • 300+people
  • 6sites and offices
  • 105years of malting
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