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!–paging_filter–pWhen someone says “single malt” in conversation at the bar, the vast majority of people tend to think of single malt Scotch whiskey made on a romantic craggy landscape in Scotland.

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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 ...

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That pint of beer poured at a local brewery like Heist, Triple C or Legion in Charlotte likely was made with barley grown in fields less than an hour away. Since 2018, Carolina Malt House in Cleveland ...