For many reasons, I want to research & find as many local sources for brewing ingredients as possible.
Local Ingredients
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Jan
Ruminations on food, drink, travel, life and reason.
Ruminations on food, drink, travel, life and reason.
For many reasons, I want to research & find as many local sources for brewing ingredients as possible.
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I can help you out there….
I believe there is a Maryland local variety of rye, so double points for sourcing that. Are there local maltsters? That was my big question. I am sure there are local growers of hops. Hops seem to have a lower bar in terms of processing than malting. I want to make good on the idea of getting spent grains to local farms, too, as feed, since we don’t compost at present.
For local yeast “wrangling” check out Bootleg Biology: http://bootlegbiology.com/
I’ll ask other local farmers. I plan on putting in hops this spring
Virginia and NC have maltsters, not sure on Maryland.
For this purpose, VA would be great. Although still would love to do something with MD rye.
There’s VA rye too
Sure but I am MD’s number one adopted son, so…
I grew up in Rockville remember 🙂
I said adopted, remember? 😉
I’d actually love to make a MD and a VA beer. Using ingredients sourced in those states
Exactly what I was thinking.
http://www.craftmalting.com/find/
Great brewers think alike?
I am currently running an experiment with the same recipe but two different 2 row bases, the winner will be used for about 20% of the beers I brew this year from a locally grown malt, all goes well and I’d like to bump that to 30-40%.
Thomas Vincent that is awesome! Let me know how it goes.
That is cool.