AMBA Recommended Malting Barley Varieties for 2019

Each year, the American Malting Barley Association (AMBA) releases its list of recommended malting barley varieties to US growers. AMBA is a nonprofit trade association of 76 brewing, distilling and malting companies that are end users of US malting barley. The list is meant to inform US producers which malting barley varieties the industry intends to use in the…

AMBA: A Focus on Malting Barley Markets

Barley remains an important feed grain, but recent years have seen a much higher portion of the crop going for malting. Coinciding with the rise of malting barley as the dominant use has been an increase in the processes and products made from malt. A diverse number of malt products can be made from a single variety of barley…

Cereal – A weekly blurb about Winter Malting Barley (1 of 4)

What does Winter Barley have in common with male craft brewers? Both sprout beards, and you need both to make beer (female craft brewers being exempt from sprouting beards of course). And yet, with all of this in common, the two know little about one another. As winter is settling in and Winter Malting Barley is going…