Craft Maltsters Guild Awards Scholarships For MaltCon2024

The Craft Maltsters Guild has awarded five individuals with scholarships to attend the 2024 Craft Malt Conference in Davis, California, for in-person and virtual attendance. This scholarship was created to provide online educational opportunities to individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic backgrounds, gender identities and expressions, sexual orientations, and disabilities.  The recipients of the in-person…

DEI In Action: An International Collaboration Brew For Umuganura

By Louis Livingston-Garcia Nestled in the Great Rift Valley of Central Africa, Rwanda is famous for its many hills, highly-lauded coffee beans, and mesmerizing mountain gorillas. And in Kigali, Rwanda’s capital, craft beer is pouring through draft lines at Kweza Brewery at a pace that might soon make it another point of pride.  Licensed in…

Field To Bench: Asking Grain Scientists About Terroir

While it’s generally understood— and celebrated— that the place in which ingredients are grown impacts flavor, skeptics of terroir in malt-based beverages seem to focus on the etymology of the word; especially because of its origins in winemaking.  Terroir as Webster defines it is “the combination of factors including soil, climate, and sunlight that gives…