By Jennifer Breckner, Craft Maltsters Guild During the last few weeks, 114 industry professionals from 24 locations across the country, such as maltsters, brewers, distillers, researchers, and Master Cicerones®, volunteered their time to perform remote sensory analysis on entries to the 2022 Malt Cup, the only competition of its kind in the world. Now in…
Interpreting the Malt Hot Steep Extract: Evaluating Chemical Trends
By Harmonie Bettenhausen, Director of Hartwick College Center for Craft Food & Beverage A couple of years ago, I sat in a friend’s garage as he waxed poetic about his homebrew. “It’s the best lager! Right? Better than any brewery.” I stared at him and thought, “what does this person mean? What do they mean…