“Origin Malt, an Ohio-based company, is working with researchers, farmers, and brewers to create a more winter-ready strain of barley that would reopen the Midwest to large-scale production and create a new supply chain of regional malt.”
“The climate from Illinois to western New York is conducive to winter barley, which is harvested in April and May — if it survives the cold. So Origin Malt has teamed with scientists like Stockinger to cross-breed barley strains and develop a genetically superior malt.”
