2018 Heirloom Malt Brewing Award Application Now Open

Calling All Craft Maltsters & Brewers! Brewers are invited to submit an heirloom beer recipe featuring only 100% heirloom malts as base malts. Support adventurous brewers seeking to connect to their brewing heritage with a list of available heirloom and terroir malts. This will help them to develop new beer styles or adapt classic beer…

AMBA Recommended Malting Barley Varieties for 2018

At their December 13, 2017, meeting, the American Malting Barley Association (AMBA) Board of Directors approved a list of recommended malting barley varieties for 2018. The full list of recommended malting barley varieties for 2018 is as follows: Two-Rows AAC Synergy ABI Voyager AC Metcalfe CDC Copeland Charles* Conlon Conrad Endeavor* Expedition Explorer Harrington Hockett…

Base Malt Sensory Map Now Available!

Our Base Malt Flavor Map is now available in our new online store! The Base Malt Flavor Map, created by DraughtLab, is a new sensory tool created to assist maltsters, brewers, distillers, and others within the craft malt supply chain and allied industries in describing base malt flavors. Used as a training, flavor development, or…

Limited Seats Left For 2018 Craft Malt Conference

Register today for the 2018 Craft Malt Conference! Join the Craft Maltsters Guild in Asheville, North Carolina, for our 2018 Craft Malt Conference on February 3rd and 4th, 2018. The 2018 Craft Malt Conference features presentations on malting technology, grain handling & storage, business & brewing, barley development in the Mid-Atlantic, distilling science, and malt…

Hey – is that beer made from facultative doubled haploid malt? (3 of 4)

by Pat Hayes, OSU Barley Breeding Rock Star The answer today is most likely “no”. But it could well be a resounding “yes” in a few years. So cheers, and here’s how to be in the know when the opportunity comes. Let’s start with the word “facultative”, since it is tied directly to the looming…