Most beer lovers these days know a great deal about hop varieties. But the malt — the barley, wheat or other grain used to brew beer — is at least as important as the other ingredients. Until recently ...

There's a reason most breweries stopped malting their own grain about 100 years ago: It's really hard work. Just ask Andrea Stanley, a 34-year-old mother of three from Hadley, Mass., who partnered ...

A few years ago, Brent Manning and Brian Simpson found out that three of the country’s biggest craft breweries were going to be opening up new production facilities right in their backyard in ...

While Western Canada might be best known for its malting industry, Terry Byrne hopes some local brewers will turn to him as their go-to malt supplier. Byrne runs a grain farm with his sons, Shaun and ...

GERMANTOWN, N.Y. (AP) – Dennis Nesel converts barley to malt the way it was done hundreds of years ago, spreading the water-soaked grain on his malt house floor and turning it with a shovel as it ...

GERMANTOWN, N.Y. – Dennis Nesel converts barley to malt the way it was done hundreds of years ago, spreading the water-soaked grain on his malt house floor and turning it with a shovel as it ...

It’s no secret that in recent years northeast Ohio has become a destination for imbibers with new breweries, wineries, meaderies, and even a few cider houses cropping up each month, many of which tout ...

The malted barley at the heart of your favorite locally-brewed craft beer probably didn't come from Michigan. The grain could have been farmed in Idaho or North Dakota, then malted by a big company ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. Shelby Township-based Motorcity Malt House LLC is trying ...