About seven years ago, Bay Area native Dan Kurzrock was attending college at UCLA, where he also began homebrewing beer on a weekly basis. “And for every 5-gallon batch, I had about 25 pounds of grain ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Malt vinegar is a type of vinegar predominantly made from malted barley. Other grains, such as rye or wheat, can also be used to ...

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To bourbon and scotch drinkers, malt is everything. In the beer world, it takes a kindly backseat to hops in San Diego IPAs, but shines front and center in brown ales, stouts and porters. So what is ...

The Scottish may not have invented whisky — the distillation process was likely introduced to Scotland by spirit-making monks who migrated from mainland Europe in the 1200s — but you could argue they ...

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 ...

When beer lovers in the Inland Northwest order a pint at a local craft brewery, they might not realize the grains used to make what's inside their glass were probably not only grown nearby but also ...

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 ...

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 ...