After Canada’s Hogarth Malt took home the 2024 Malt Cup, we caught up with Aaron and Alex Hogarth to learn more about their family floor malting operation. Tell us about how you got started. Aaron was a homebrewer many years ago. He got into commercial brewing and did that for a handful of years.…
Board Of Directors 2025 Elections
Call for Candidates Key parts of organizational growth and development are electing new leaders. With fresh minds come new ideas. This year, the Craft Maltsters Guild has four open Board of Director positions: one Member Malthouse seat; one Allied Trade seat; one International/Developing Malthouse seat; one Individual seat. Any member can nominate a candidate, including themselves.…
Member Highlight: Wheatland Spring Farm + Brewery
Introducing Wheatland Spring Farm + Brewery, an estate brewery in Virginia that’s using 100% craft malt. Proudly the first Craft Malt Certified™ brewery in the state, Wheatland Spring hosts the annual Land Beer Fest and leads the Hope Grows project to support barley breeding research in the Mid-Atlantic growing region of the Eastern US. Their…
Member Highlight: Thornton Distilling Company, Maker of Dead Drop Spirits
Our next member highlight takes us to Thornton, Illinois where a time-honored local brewery building now houses a distillery that’s making history by distilling European heirloom grain grown in Indiana. We asked Thornton Distillery’s Head Distiller Ari Klafter about their origin story and about his passion for peated malt. Here’s what he had to say.…
Member Highlight: Root Shoot Malting
Earlier this year Loveland, Colorado’s Root Shoot Malting nearly swept the Malt Cup awards, receiving four medals: gold in the Pilsen, Light Munich, and Vienna categories, and silver in Pale Malt. 2023 marks the second year that Root Shoot took home the traveling Malt Cup for overall Best in Show for their Genie Pilsen malt. …
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