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 ...

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 ...

"There used to be a lot of barley grown in the state," Craig said. "It all went away." Much like beer and breweries for a good portion of the 20 th century, 99 percent of the malt market is controlled ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 18th-century England, it was not uncommon to ride up to a parish, say, Shrewsbury in Shropshire, and find a handful of domestic brewers. Had you asked any of them, they would have pointed you in ...

This story was originally published Nov. 14. Alberta might not have the hop prowess of our western neighbours in B.C., but as the craft beer scene rapidly expands under new provincial rules, ...