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Craft Beverage

Craft Malt in the Brewery

By: Erik Myers
R ecently, the Craft Maltsters Guild – the A craft maltster is defined as a maltster that is

independently owned, that produces between five
non-profit association dedicated to pro-
moting the manufacturers it defines as
uses grain grown within a 500-mile radius of the
“craft maltsters” – announced The Craft and 10,000 metric tons of malt per year, and that
Malt Certified Seal, a new initiative to promote the malt house for at least half of their grain supply.
use of craft malt by breweries. In order to qualify,
a beer or spirit The Difficulties of Using Craft Malt
must contain at Craft malt is an industry that is still very much in
least 10% of its its infancy. There are very few craft maltsters that
grist, by weight, have been around for more than a few years, and
of malt sourced even those that have been in business for a decade
from one of the or more are only recently seeing healthy and sus-
Craft Maltsters tained growth on the wave of a beer industry that
Guild’s members. favors local goods as a strong marketing stand-
point.

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