Malting Barley On Abc

[spog]

g,day all. i caught the last 2 mins of a report on the abc program landline this morning about a malting barley named flagship. interviews were given by blokes from the soparro brewery rep (check spelling) and joe white maltings in adelaide. i understand this barley is being trialed as a more efficient and reliable strain to boost aus malting barley exports.did anyone else see this.i dont know i it will repeated later in the week.i tried the website but it is not up and running yet. www.abc.net.au/landline..cheers..spog..

 

[Voosher]

Not surprisingly it focused on benefits for the farmer... yields, export opportunities etc.
Most of the focus is on its suitability for the Japanese and Chinese markets. Not for VB and Toohey's New (hooray) more for the Oriental brews which include rice in the ferment.
A bit of a chat with someone from Joe White's.
Certainly of some interest.
Landline repeated Monday 11am.
Cheers.

 

[tangent]

i photographed some plant breeders at Roseworthy. one of them said sapporo were there working on a specific breed of barley for us to grow to sell back to them.
i think there's a big import duty on malt on Japan (Japan AHBers verify this?) that might be why all their beers are big on accentuating what little malt they use. spose the rest is rice. that might be the result of that work.

 

[bigfridge]

i think there's a big import duty on malt on Japan (Japan AHBers verify this?) that might be why all their beers are big on accentuating what little malt they use. spose the rest is rice. that might be the result of that work.

Chatting with Lacey San a few weeks ago and he confirmed that beer in japan is taxed on malt content - not alcohol content.

This is fuelling all sorts of non-barley concoctions. You would think that governments would have learnt by now.

David

 

[BoilerBoy]

As Voosher said the emphasis was on the export potential of breaking into the Asian market with a malt that complimented the rice style beers they love over there.
Purely a marketing exercise with dollar potential, but no taste

 

[Mr Bond]

Purely a marketing exercise with dollar potential, but no taste

So Whats new ?

 

[spog]

cheers for the replys/comments,i see all but one(bigfridge)? are south aussies.(recent poll....i still cant figure out which state i should be in,apart from pissed )

 

[jayse]

I'd have to disagree its purely a marketing ploy, more like keeping up with the times and continuing to improve. This whole thing is done in labs and so forth not at marketing board round table of discussion.

Call it staying one foot in front of the Jones's. 7% more yeild, mild to strong resistence to many things that other varieties are susceptable to is pretty much science not marketing. As far as handling in the brewery as far as i can see it states it handles very well but no claims of being better than some of whats already available.

One comment I found from a 100litre pilot batch at a CUB brewery was 'no undesirable flavours'. Maybe they should be using it for there beer :lol:


Jayse