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.…