In real estate parlance, the mantra is “location.” In the food and beverage industry, the trending buzzword is “local.” For Delaware farmers considering growing a new, alternative crop — malt barley — ...

BURLINGTON, Wash. (AP) — Microbreweries and home-brewers across the nation may soon be looking to Skagit Valley for one all-important ingredient needed for their varieties of beer: malt. Thanks to a ...

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 ...

Beer is an alcoholic beverage made from barley, water, hops, and yeast. Brewing is a complex process where the ingredients are combined and fermented to become alcoholic. Even small changes in the ...

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 ...

MOORHEAD, Minn. - Alan Slater retired Thursday, Feb. 28, as director of Midwest Malting Barley Operations for Anheuser-Busch Companies, Inc. He's been with the company for 34 years. In his current ...