Barley Is In Trouble. Can Rice Save The Beer Industry?

Barley Is In Trouble. Can Rice Save The Beer Industry?

Beer prices might soon rise as climate change threatens barley crops, but an unexpected savior is emerging from rice paddies. The post Barley Is In Trouble. Can Rice Save The Beer Industry? appeared first on Study Finds.

Hardly Anyone Dries Rice on the Road Anymore

The process that takes the grain from the fields to the table doesn’t end with the harvest. The farmer must dry it and pass it through a mill The post Hardly Anyone Dries Rice on the Road Anymore appeared first on Havana Times.

Rice Emerges as a Competitive Alternative for Malting, Potentially Boosting

image:  Beers made with malted rice are seen with a vial of malted rice at the Center for Beverage Innovation, a University of Arkansas System facility, during a 2024 study that identified several long grain rice varieties with unique brewing qualities. An agricultural economics study exploring the cost feasibility of malted rice showed brewing with malted rice instead of milled rice can lower brewery production costs by up to 12 percent. view …

As a competitive grain for malting, rice may open door to increase domestic demand

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — A new economics study shows the potential for an ancient process to develop new domestic demand for rice and offset declining exports. That process is malting, which has been around for millennia but is usually associated with another grain — barley. But rice, which is grown prolifically in Arkansas, can also be […]