Blue Ox Malthouse last week opened an expanded facility that makes an essential ingredient of craft beer, using a centuries-old process called “floor malting.” The 20,000-square-foot building in ...
CONSIDERING the economic importance of floor malting in this country, it is somewhat remarkable that no work on the subject possessing any claim to thoroughness has hitherto been published. We hoped ...
In competition with 34 malthouses from seven countries, Blue Ox Malthouse in Lisbon Falls was awarded two gold medals and Best of Show at the 2025 Malt Cup Awards. Judges awarded Blue Ox with gold ...
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You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. In the brewing process, yeast does a lot of the work, but I believe the real ...
Most beer lovers these days know a great deal about hop varieties. But the malt — the barley, wheat or other grain used to brew beer — is at least as important as the other ingredients. Until recently ...
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 ...