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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…

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Field To Bench: Michigan State Puts Small Grains and Producers On The Map In The Mitten State

November 30, 2022

By Emily Hutto, RadCraft Our 2022 Field To Bench series has illuminated the collaboration required to execute barley research that yields useful results for producers, and our Q4 spotlight on Michigan State University (MSU) is no exception. MSU is actively researching winter malting barley, and other grains like corn, oats, and rye, in the context…

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Field To Bench: Thunder, Lightning, and GN 0 Barley at Oregon State University

August 30, 2022

By Emily Hutto, RadCraft The 2022 installments of the Field To Bench series tell stories about some of the world’s leading malt research. Next up is Oregon State University. The barley researchers at Oregon State University (OSU) have always found themselves on the cusp of something big in the craft malt world. Today, it’s GN…