With the rise in local craft beers and double IPAs, there's plenty of talk about hops, but discussion of malted barley is often secondary (if it's had at all). Both hops and barley have a notable ...

Malt is created when simple grains such as barley, rye or wheat are left to germinate and sprout. When this happens, the starch is converted into a simple sugar called maltose. If the grain is ...

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fermented mash of 100% malted barley produced in the United States; (Note that the barley doesn’t need to be produced in the US, just the mashing and subsequent production) (2) distillation ...