Gone are the days...
... when Australia’s maltsters were sitting on their hands. However, fresh are the memories of the 80s’ calamity when Australia’s maltsters witnessed a decline in exports. As Lesley MacLeod, Barrett Burston Malting Co. pointed out in her presentation at the IOB Asia Pacific Section’s conference in Singapore, Australia’s maltsters had a 32% share of the Japanese malt market in 1981 and only 19% in 1996.
The 80s witnessed a change in brewing parameters - alcohol content, adjunct choice, malt usage etc. - which the maltsters were unable to comply with immediately, having stuck to their barley varieties for too long. Since then, the industry has taken a keen interest in barley breeding so that it can better keep up with market changes. The same applies to pesticides. (BIL).
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