In the brewing process, yeast does a lot of the work, but I believe the real superhero of any beer is the malted grains. In the case of most beer, that’s usually malted barley, and sometimes malted ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. That pint of beer poured at a local brewery like Heist, Triple C or Legion in Charlotte likely was made with barley grown in ...

Here’s a tasty tale of what happens when brewers partner up with a genius baker and a forward-thinking grain farmer. The Grain Shed in Spokane, Wash., has created a vertically integrated system that ...

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 ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Gluten-free beer drinkers are an expanding segment of the craft-beer market — and a small craft maltster in Wellington is helping breweries quench their ...

Microscopic signatures of malting could help reveal which prehistoric people had a taste for beer. Malting, the first step in brewing beer, erodes cell walls in an outer layer of a grain seed, called ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. That pint of beer poured at a local brewery like Heist, Triple C or Legion in Charlotte likely was made with barley grown in ...