Quality Corner: 2023 Harvest Outlook

With the 2023 malting grain harvest close on the horizon for much of the continent, and already behind us in some regions, the Craft Maltsters Guild asked some of the leading North American grain research organizations for their regional perspectives on this year’s crop quality and yields. Their harvests, overall, were successful and their outlook…

Field To Bench: Alabama barley and the possibilities of plant genotyping

By Emily Hutto, Photos courtesy HudsonAlpha Institute for Technology  Jeremy Schmutz is vacationing in England sipping on a Barsham Brewery Golden Clues IPA made with Bodicea hops and local Maris Otter barley. Schmutz is the HudsonAlpha Institute for Biotechnology Faculty Investigator and co-director of the HudsonAlpha Genome Sequencing Center, one of the only centers performing…