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Field To Bench: Virginia Heirloom Project Aims To Craft More Distilled Spirits With Heritage Grains

October 29, 2024

It started with some seed. Fifty pounds of Seashore Black Rye grain that Shelley Sackier at Reservoir Distillery in Richmond, Virginia bought from Riverbend Malt House for an heirloom rye project she’s been working on since last spring. Seashore Black Rye is an heirloom rye varietal that was revived on Edisto Island, South Carolina. Its…

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Field To Bench: Asking Grain Scientists About Terroir

December 8, 2023

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…

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

September 1, 2023

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…

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Field To Bench, And To Consumer Too: Southern Illinois University Fermentation Science Institute Provides Hands-On Experience All The Way To The Marketplace

June 5, 2023

In 2022, the Craft Maltsters Guild hosted its Advanced Class in Craft Malt Production course at the Southern Illinois University (SIU) Fermentation Science Institute in Carbondale, where participants got hands-on experience with SIU’s pilot malting system. This malting facility makes SIU’s fermentation science studies a one-of-a-kind pedagogy. As of this year, the program is undertaking…

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Field To Bench: Consumers and Collaboration Spur Progress In Barley Breeding at Cornell University

February 15, 2023

By Emily Hutto, RadCraft New York state is an established hub for agriculture with business licensing in place that supports farm breweries and distilleries that source New York-grown ingredients for their beers and spirits. Now in credit to the work that the Cornell University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences is doing in collaboration with…