BURLINGTON — Four years after embarking on a mission to raise the value of locally grown grain, the team at Skagit Valley Malting Co. is nearly ready to move into production. The enterprise is aiming ...

Last month, the Maine Brewers Guild’s Technical Committee hosted From Kiln to Kettle at Blue Ox Malthouse in Lisbon Falls.

BURLINGTON — Skagit Valley Malting founder Wayne Carpenter ducked his head inside one of two sprawling metal silos that are under construction on a 10-acre lot at the Port of Skagit’s Bayview Business ...

Queen City Malting will prepare grains like barley, wheat and oats to be used by breweries and distilleries. To meet the growing needs of Buffalo-area brewers, along comes Queen City Malting. The ...

Microscopic signatures of malting could help reveal which prehistoric people had a taste for beer. Malting, the first step in brewing beer, erodes cell walls in an outer layer of a grain seed, called ...

Without malt, there wouldn’t be any beer. It’s as simple as that. Since malt provides beer with its color and provides a sweetness that is balanced by the bitterness of hops, it is an ingredient that ...

In late August I posted about the Barrel Factory: A Maker’s Market coming to the Old First Ward (see here). At the time I mentioned that the 110-year old building was landing a distillery. Now an ...

Malting, the processing of cereal grains into malt, generates rootlets as a side-stream product, which is currently mostly utilized as animal feed. However, this leftover material has not only a high ...