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 ...

Specialty malts are also often added to beer to enhance the color, flavor, and smell. Jon Larson / Getty Images Do you ever order a chocolate milkshake and the waiter asks you, “Do you want that ...

Malted barley usually makes up the smallest percentage of an American whiskey’s recipe and, generally speaking, its role is more functional than flavorful. That’s because, when barley is malted, it ...

A new economic study shows the potential for an ancient process to develop new domestic demand for rice and offset declining exports. That process is malting, which has been around for millennia but ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Since 2016, Root Shoot Malting has supplied grains to breweries and distilleries that turn its locally-grown and malted barley into craft beers and spirits.

When people think about beer, hops typically get the most attention. But an ongoing local collaboration is celebrating beer's main ingredient — malted barley — for a seven-week event dubbed the Purple ...