Field to Bench: Colorado State’s Testing Lab Is the Newest Kid on the Block

By Meghan Howes, Contributing Writer for RadCraft Based in Fort Collins, on the Colorado State University main campus, the Fermentation Science and Technology (FST) undergraduate program within the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition is home to many state-of-the-art fermentation and brewing equipment and labs including a relatively new malt quality testing lab. Katie Fromuth, the…

Craft Maltsters Guild Debuts Opportunity: 2022 Advanced Class in Craft Malt Production

PORTLAND, ME — The Craft Maltsters Guild will offer a four-day intensive workshop in the days leading up to the 2022 Craft Malt Conference in Portland, Maine (CMC 2022). Startup and experienced maltsters, as well as other parties in the malt supply chain, will gain theoretical and practical knowledge in malting technology at the 2022…

Field to Bench: The State of New York Helps Support State-of-the-Art Lab

By Meghan Howes, Contributing Writer for RadCraft In the late 1990s, when Harmonie Bettenhausen worked for Odell Brewing Company in Fort Collins, Colorado, she and founder Doug Odell often talked about the beer industry and where improvements could be made, whether it involved ingredients or equipment or fostering deeper relationships with local producers. “At that time,…

Colorado Beers Made With Craft Malt To Seek Out at the Craft Brewers Conference

Lucky for Colorado travelers headed to the 2021 Craft Brewers Conference, you’re headed to an area with one of the largest numbers of Craft Malt Certified breweries! Some of them have special releases available for this week’s events, and some of them never fail to use craft malt in their flagship recipes.  Here’s a sampling…

Field to Bench: Canada Led the Way

By Meghan Howes, Contributing Writer for RadCraft Located at the longitudinal center of North America, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the Canadian Malting Barley Technical Center (CMBTC) opened in 2000 with Yueshu Li serving as director. “I was the first employee,” Li said with a chuckle. Since then, the Centre has worked with breeders, farmers, seed companies, exporters/importers,…