Malting Barley Improvement for Brewing

MetaBrew: A comprehensive database of malting quality traits in brewing barley

MetaBrew is a manually curated and comprehensive repository of high quality analysis data concerning kernel, malting and brewing quality of barley cultivars. This includes meta information about the genotypic and phenotypic background (pedigree, row number, seasonal habit, environment, experiment sources). Exploration and export of the information is supported by a web application. MetaBrew is ...

The microbiology of malting and brewing.

Brewing beer involves microbial activity at every stage, from raw material production and malting to stability in the package. Most of these activities are desirable, as beer is the result of a traditional food fermentation, but others represent threats to the quality of the final product and must be controlled actively through careful management, the daily task of maltsters and brewers globall...

Evaluation of Malting Barley Potential for Atlantic Canada

Simulation of yield and quality of malting barley

A computer simulation model was developed to determine the likely response of grain yield and quality of malting barley crops to differing availability of water or nitrogen (N) and differing soil and climatic conditions. The model was validated for New Zealand conditions by comparing the results of model simulations with data from malting barley crops grown in the Manawatu. Simulations were the...

Effect of Barley yellow dwarf virus Infection on Yield and Malting Quality of Barley

Barley yellow dwarf (BYD), the most common and widespread virus disease of cereal crops worldwide (14), may be caused by any one of several Barley yellow dwarf viruses (BYDVs) of the family Luteoviridae. Transmitted by at least 25 aphid species (24), these viruses historically have been classified into two subgroups and five strains based on aphid vector specificity and efficiency (31). However...