German malting barley - premium quality not appreciated?
Brewers often refer to malt as the "soul of beer". But the collapse of prices for malting barley and malt, extending over many years, raises doubt about whether maltsters and brewers appreciate their most important raw material. Prices for malting barley have meanwhile dropped to a level where producers are seriously considering changing to economically more interesting alternatives.
In their own interest, maltsters and brewers should not close their eyes to a foreseeable possible drastic reduction of acreage under cultivation with high-value spring malting barley - as well as to the associated price increases and quality compromises.
The German Malting Barley Society sees the successes of past years as being jeopardised. Based on its statutes ("...
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