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 ...

PULLMAN, Wash. — On a sunny September day, program manager Max Wood maneuvered a pint-size Wintersteiger Classic Plus combine across a plot of malting barley that is part of Washington State ...

Barley continues to make a modest but steady comeback, as a growing number of craft breweries has inspired the opening of the state’s first malting facilities, which is creating demand for premium ...

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 ...

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 — ...

You don’t need a history degree to get American single malt. But it wouldn’t hurt. Before the United States even went by that name, the Cherokee and other indigenous tribes made their booze out of ...

A lot of American craft distillers enter the aged-spirit business by way of bourbon or rye, two great drinks that date to our Colonial agricultural past—and that are considered whiskey in much of the ...

When people think of single malt whiskey, the first thing that comes to mind is usually scotch. That concept is changing, however, with the growing popularity of the American single malt category.

When it comes to whisky made in the U.K., scotch is obviously the first thing that comes to mind for most people. But there ...