The Olander farm has been in the family since 1926. Steve Olander is a second-generation farmer who grows barley, alfalfa, corn and wheat. For a time, the 1,500-acre Loveland property, which employs ...

The latest beers from breweries like Faction, Cellarmaker, and Black Sands have a certain something in common, and it’s not the same experimental hop variety or a new strain of yeast. For the first ...

Since I’ve spent most of my life in a city, I haven’t had the chance to stand on a rolling hill in the middle of a barley field and watch massive harvesting combines cut through the 200-plus acres of ...

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 ...

YAKIMA, Wash. -- Beer is a synergistic liquid — it becomes much more than the ingredients used to brew it. Looking at what beer’s respective ingredients provide can, however, give us a deeper ...

Those are the words of Bay Area brewing legend Ron Silberstein, founder of ThirstyBear Brewpub in San Francisco and Admiral Maltings across the Bay in Alameda. Over two decades after it was founded, ...

Without malt, there wouldn’t be any beer. It’s as simple as that. Since malt provides beer with its color and provides a sweetness that is balanced by the bitterness of hops, it is an ingredient that ...

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 ...

A new method for reliably identifying the presence of beer or other malted foodstuffs in archaeological finds is described in a new study. A new method for reliably identifying the presence of beer or ...