Back in 2022, we featured a new 2-row barley variety bred at the Eastern Virginia Agricultural Research and Extension Center on our Field To Bench series. This new barley, Avalon, represents a whole community charging toward the debut of a better-performing barley, cultivated with maltsters in mind. Now three harvests later, we asked the Craft…
Field To Bench: Virginia Heirloom Project Aims To Craft More Distilled Spirits With Heritage Grains
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…
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…
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…
Field To Bench, And To Consumer Too: Southern Illinois University Fermentation Science Institute Provides Hands-On Experience All The Way To The Marketplace
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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