Board of Directors, 2026 Elections Call for Candidates The Board of Directors is seeking nominees ready to help lead the Craft Maltsters Guild into an exciting new chapter. Our community has built incredible momentum over the past dozen years, and despite current headwinds in the craft beverage industry, craft malt and those committed to it…
Kernels: Malt in the Media Picks for Autumn 2025
Craft Malt Month brought much media attention to our industry! Learn more about our members in the articles and podcasts published about the initiative: Riverbend Malt House in Asheville, NC gets some love and well-deserved attention in the Brewery Underground podcasts (see episodes 98 and 99). Listen in to learn how Brent Manning co-founded Riverbend,…
Field To Bench: Notes from Maltsters on the 2025 Avalon Barley Harvest
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…
Kernels: Malt in the Media Picks for Summer 2025
It was a busy summer for our membership, and it showed in malt in the media mentions. To keep up with the latest, read– or listen— on! New Winter Malting Barley Barley breeding always has a long-term horizon, and we are excited to read in Spectrum Local News that the folks at Cornell University have…
Craft Malt Month 2025 To Celebrate North American Grain Farmers, Craft Maltsters, and Truly Local Brewers & Distillers
As a new generation of agriculturally minded craft breweries and distilleries continues to engage with the role they play in food systems, they drive demand for local, higher quality, and storied ingredients. Craft Malt Month is a celebration of this grassroots movement toward more resilient and sustainable grain supply chains that make better tasting beer…