Craft Maltsters Guild

Maltsters have until September 22 to submit their malt to the 2025 Malt Cup competition! This international quality awards program is the only of its kind, and we're pleased to grow the program. This year, Malt Cup expands to include eight categories, featuring two new additions: Unique Malt and Distillers Malt. Returning Categories include Caramel Malt, Light Munich, Pilsen, Pale Malt, Vienna, and Wheat Malt. The 2025 Malt Cup is the Craft Maltsters Guild's 8th annual celebration of excellence in craft malting! Learn more about it and read the entry guidelines here: https://lnkd.in/gCpUbpV9

Happy Learn To Homebrew Day! Find craft malt from your closest local maltster: https://lnkd.in/ghgBmuv Give us a shout it your homebrew supply shop purchases malt from one of our member malthouses and you'd like to be included on this list.

Initiatives that revolve around local ingredients absolutely thrill us! Earlier this month, the Oregon Agricultural Trust launched Cheers to the Land. This campaign asks craft beverage producers to showcase Oregon-grown ingredients in their beverages. This month and next, these producers will host tap takeovers, beer releases, and beer dinners with the intention to call consumers to action to choose more traceable products. Many of the beers created for this campaign include malt from craft maltsters— including Salmon Safe malt by Mainstem Malt. Read about all of them in Oregon Live: https://lnkd.in/gM5jfxQ4 #maltinthemedia

Craft Malt Month might be over, bur we still celebrate craft malt every day! While you count down to next year's celebration, here are some easy ways to keep the conversation going... ⁠ ⁠ 1️⃣ Ask your followers to follow us!⁠ ⁠ 2️⃣ Join us as a member, or an allied trade partner. ⁠ ⁠ 3️⃣ Get Craft Malt Certified™⁠ ⁠ 4️⃣ Join us at MaltCon2025 February 27 - March 1. ⁠ ⁠ 5️⃣ Tell us about your malthouse in a #malthousemonday post!⁠ ⁠ Find more information about all of the above on craftmalting.com.

MaltCon2025 is scheduled for February 27 - March 1 in Denver, Colorado! MaltCon, the Craft Maltsters Guild’s annual conference + trade expo, brings together university, agriculture, malt, and beverage professionals from across the globe as the only conference of its kind, offering workshops and seminars specifically focused on malt research, topics, and best practices. Get ready for two full days of panels, seminars, and rapid fire sessions at the Springhill Suites Conference Center and Metro State on February 27-March1, 2025. The MaltCup awards ceremony will take place Saturday evening, March 1.  Early bird pricing is available to the first 35 registrants! Register here: https://lnkd.in/gxQVbGbw

It's #MalthouseMonday! Today's shoutout goes to Miller Malting in Cascade, Iowa. This dedicated gluten-free malthouse and regenerative farm focuses on sustainable farm practices and working with alternative grains, such as buckwheat, amaranth, and millet. Learn more about this malthouse, one of our newer members, at millermalting.com.

As we continue our series celebrating brewers and distillers who feature the Craft Malt Certified™ seal in their branding, marketing, and sales strategies, we recognize Footbridge Brewery, who feature the seal in their taproom and as a part of their website and branding. ⁠ “We’ve incorporated the Craft Malt seal into our marketing campaign, aptly named ‘Be Part of Something.’ This campaign was created to showcase the brewery’s passion for local ingredients and commitment to using 95% Maine-sourced ingredients in every beer they brew,” explains Dan Pangburn, Co-Owner of Footbridge Brewery. Read more about how Footbridge and several other certified breweries market their ingredients: https://lnkd.in/gCsHxw3s

Our next webinar, “Insights from the 2024 U.S. and Canada Barley Crop”, is coming up next week on Thursday, October 17, 2024. During this this presentation, participants will gain insights into both the U.S. and Canadian 2024 Barley Crop. We will dive into data from USDA NASS Small Grains Summary and the Western Canadian Grain Industry to learn how markets and weather impacted the crop harvested. ⁠ Our guest speakers are Ashely McFarland, Regional Vice President & Technical Director of the American Malting Barley Association, and Peter Watts, Managing Director of the Canadian Malting Barley Technical Centre. ⁠ ⁠ Register using the link attached and join us on Thursday, October 17 at 1pm ET! ⁠ https://lnkd.in/gT6gGzSr

If you're in Denver for the Great American Beer Festival, how about going for a Craft Malt Certified™ beer made with Colorado-grown and malted ingredients? You've got more than 25 breweries to choose from! https://lnkd.in/gqVmbawD

Our inaugural Craft Malt Month was a great success! 🌾 Our membership showed up on social media, with nearly 200 posts the #CraftMaltMonth hashtag. Some of our longest-standing members like Colorado Malting Company and some of our newest members like Cold Stream Malt & Grain Co.— and everyone in between— got involved in the online conversation. Many of our members hosted events, tours, and tastings across the continent, and beyond (We see you, Malteria Monferrato)! Some of them also crafted and collaborated on fundraisers to benefit the Craft Maltsters Guild. Media across North America helped us spread the word about the Craft Malt Month initiative, and the craft malt revolution at large. Craft malt was prominent at the first Virginia Brewers Conference that took place. It was also the star of the show on RadCraft's September workshop, and a tasting with the Colorado Spirits Collective. ...And so much more! If there were Craft Malt Month superlatives, these folks would get the trophies: 🏆️ 𝙼𝙾𝚂𝚃 𝙶𝙴𝙽𝙴𝚁𝙾𝚄𝚂 : Copperworks Distilling donated $10 from every bottle of their Single Cask No. 145 to the Guild during Craft Malt Month, not to mention their donation of 8 years of barrel space to the effort while this whiskey aged. 🏆️ 𝚆𝙸𝙳𝙴𝚂𝚃 𝚁𝙰𝙽𝙶𝙸𝙽𝙶 : Riverbend Malt House enacted 8 collaboration beers across 3 states in support of Craft Malt Month! 🏆️ 𝙻𝙾𝚄𝙳𝙴𝚂𝚃 & 𝙿𝚁𝙾𝚄𝙳𝙴𝚂𝚃 : Root Shoot Malting posted about Craft Malt Month on social media almost every day of the month! They also organized four collaboration beers with breweries across Colorado's Front Range. If you're headed to GABF and exploring breweries next week— ask about 'em! 🏆️ 𝙱𝙴𝚂𝚃 𝙻𝙾𝙾𝙺𝙸𝙽𝙶 : Troubadour Maltings made custom Craft Malt Month glassware! Enough said. What other superlatives would you add? Let's share some compliments in the comments! Thank you to 𝙴𝚅𝙴𝚁𝚈𝙾𝙽𝙴 who participated in Craft Malt Month! Our upcoming newsletter will share an even more detailed recap on this initiative, and we hope to see it grow in 2025! 🌾