Entries by Scott Hickman

Six Beers To Drink This Fall, Craft Malt Edition

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From pumpkin ales to Oktoberfest biers — fall is in the beer. 

Asheville’s Riverbend Malt House is a key component in producing these autumnal flavors, which won’t last long on tap across the Southeast this season. Don’t miss these fall beers made with Riverbend craft malt. 

Hillman Beer

Hillman Festbier is brewed with a combination of Riverbend Malt’s Chesapeake Pilsner, Vienna, and Light Munich malts. The result: a light,

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Fresh Craft Malt from Riverbend Malt House: Sunset Wheat


Calling all craft brewers and artisan distillers, there’s a new craft malt available from Riverbend Malt House. Sunset Wheat is here1

This new malt is rooted in the same high quality soft red winter wheat that we use for our flagship Appalachian Wheat. From there we explored a warmer kilning regime similar to a Munich-style. This technique uses large volumes of warm, moist air to develop the building blocks for color and flavor development.

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Brent Manning of Riverbend Malt House: Five Strategies Our Company Is Using To Tackle Climate Change & Become More Sustainable

After 10 years in the craft malt business, we’re reflecting on our past, and how we want to approach our future with the least environmental impact possible. The timing was perfect for Medium.com’s Authority Magazine to interview us about our sustainability mission.

Read the conversation here.

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Introducing the Riverbend Malt House 10 Year Anniversary Malt: Sunset Wheat Malt

Just in time for autumn, Riverbend Malt House welcomes a new sunset-hued malt variety into its portfolio. Sunset Wheat Malt is now available for purchase by brewers and distillers across the Southeast.

This new malt is rooted in the same high quality soft red winter wheat that we use for our flagship Appalachian Wheat. From there we explored a warmer kilning regime similar to a Munich-style. This technique uses large volumes of warm,

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Riverbend Malt House Partners Score Big in Beer Competitions This Season

Congratulations are in order to so many of our brewery customers for cleaning up at this season’s awards— including the Great American Beer Festival®, the U.S. Beer Open, the North Carolina Brewers Cup, and the National Honey Board Honey Beer Competition to boot. Thanks to these companies for their support of craft malt, and props to them for transforming our ingredients into world-class beers. 

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Beer Pick: For Oktoberfest (or dodgeball) try Arches Fest Bier this weekend

Thanks to Atlanta City Journal for picking a brew made with Riverbend malt!

Brewed with Vienna malt, Munich malt and floor-malted pilsner malt, all sourced from Riverbend Malt House in North Carolina, Arches Fest Bier is a Märzen-style lager with a whole lot of malt flavor. There’s a bit Caramunich 3, as well, which gives the beer a beautiful dark amber color, and a touch of residual sweetness,

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We Asked 11 Brewers: What’s the Best New Summer Beer?

Riverbend was named in Nikko Krommmydas’s excellent article on summer beers for VinePair: We Asked 11 Brewers: What’s the Best New Summer Beer?

“I’m a huge fan of the team at Albright Grove Brewing and Ancient Trees, a collaboration between them and Perennial Artisan Ales, is the most quaffable thing out this summer. This farmhouse saison is ticking all my boxes for a great saison. Amazing aromas of ripe,

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