While light beers are often grouped together, the biggest brands take noticeably different approaches to ingredients and brewing. These choices affect flavor, mouthfeel, and overall drinkability, even ...

A drop in the sale of beer and too much barley in bins has resulted in uncertainty for some of the farmers who contract the crop with malting and brewing companies. The amount of barley that maltsters ...

American whiskey has long been about corn. After all, it’s the star ingredient in bourbon, the country’s beloved spirit. Yet the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB), which is responsible ...

CROOKSTON--Barley grown outside of Fisher, Minn., is finding its way into the region's craft beers. Vertical Malt, a startup business in Crookston run by Adam Wagner and his father, Tim, uses barley ...

GRAND FORKS, N.D. — No beer. No barley. “That’s the kind of situation we're in,” Mark Black, North American Malteurop barley procurement and trials manager, told farmers during a presentation about ...

BANCROFT, Idaho — Idaho grain companies have been buying loads of top-quality malting barley to blend into cattle rations, providing a market for surplus production growers have been unable to sell to ...

In real estate parlance, the mantra is “location.” In the food and beverage industry, the trending buzzword is “local.” For Delaware farmers considering growing a new, alternative crop — malt barley — ...

Beer sales in the United States declined in 2023, and that, combined with a robust supply of barley on hand, has resulted in a decreased demand for malting barley, particularly for Anheuser-Busch. An ...