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 ...

Overall “contraction” is the biggest challenge the malting barley industry faces, said Ashley McFarland, new American Malting ...

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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Don Tse is a beverage alcohol writer covering business and innovation. In Alberta, Canada, where some of the world’s best malting ...

CROOKSTON, Minn. - 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 ...

IFA grain chair John Murphy said malting barley growers have been left behind again and will be asking when some of this ...