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Craft Malt Conference – 2021

The art of creating good malt out of bad barley has not yet been discovered. Robert Free, 1888 (UK Barley Breeder) Craft Malt Conference - Summary Wow! What an exciting few days for the craft malt community! Three solid days of technical…
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Using a CoA for Malting and Brewing – Pt. 2

Inside the Matrix....Beta Glucan and Arabinoxylan 𝛃-glucan is a glucose polymer that is found in the cell walls of the endosperm. 𝛃-glucan along with another non-starch carbohydrate called arabinoxylan (or pentosan) comprise more than…
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Favorite (Lager) Beers of 2020

The beer community has been asking (begging?) since 2015 for more and different craft lagers to enter the market. Looking back at 2020, I think we got there! Was it COVID that pushed the industry to make the final leap? The ability to store…
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Using a CoA for Malting and Brewing – Pt. 1

Planning for a successful batch of malt or brew day starts with a Certificate of Analysis (CoA for short) which provides a tremendous amount of information about the malt you will be working with. In the early days, these laboratory analyses…
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Smoke Sessions – 2020

I’ll be honest, I was not a fan of smoke beers. To me, they all came in one flavor….campfire. I could pick it out of whatever I was drinking and just couldn’t get past it. Never did I go back for a second pint.   With that as…
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Exploring the Terrior of Southern Barley

It all comes back to geology - Brian Simpson   When Brian and I worked together as environmental consultants, that quote was a common refrain. Brian, being a geologist, always took smug satisfaction in the fact that his chosen…
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Collabs for a Cause

Over the past 6 months, we've worked with several of our customers across the Southeast to brew beers that give back to those in the service industry that have been impacted by COVID-19. A small gesture that we hope demonstrates our support…
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Capturing the taste of home with contract malting

We’ve heard it since the beginning…..it can’t be local enough! - Brent Manning   We’ve offered locally-sourced malt for almost a decade now. While this practice marks a notable improvement in the carbon footprint associated…
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HARVEST UPDATE – 2020

  Each crop year is distinctive and offers a teaching moment. Our intake process remains the same, the results are always different. In previous years, we’ve seen warm, dry springs drive rapid growth and early harvests. Mother…
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