new malt for brewers on Landline

[Ducatiboy stu]

Good article on ABC Landline about the new barley variety. Interview with Tim Cooper and the breed researchers from Carlsburg. You can catch it on re-runs latter in the week or on iView.

Well worth watching

 

[Bribie G]

Coverage also on ABC News Site.

"Aliens turned my toddler into Kim Kardashian lookalike" link on Murdoch Sites.

 

[real_beer]

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The farmer Mark Branson's closing comments is what impressed me the most, his smile, personality, and enthusiasm made a huge positive impression on me. Too me it's people with attitudes like his that offer the key to unlocking Australia's huge positive potential possibilities in the years ahead. Political leaders everywhere have become so negative I think they've become incapable of offering any positive leadership, thinking, or results. Maybe we as individuals just need to focus more on what Australia might be better for us having lived here and get on with making it better ourselves as individuals while we can.

I personally believe politicians these days should be called 'de-motivators' as they've become such negative & depressing entities. We're living in the best place in the world so lets start appreciating it enjoy the ride into the future with new creative idea's that other countries wished they'd thought of first.

Anyway my main point is that people like Mark Branson are what really make me feel what a great country Australia is. A positive attitude, down to earth character, great smile, and likes beer

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

Back at 4:30 on ABC news 24

 

[lukec]

We'll said, we really are he best country in the world yet not enough of us appreciate at it. Less time bitching and moaning, more time doing and enjoying

:icon_offtopic:
The farmer Mark Branson's closing comments is what impressed me the most, his smile, personality, and enthusiasm made a huge positive impression on me. Too me it's people with attitudes like his that offer the key to unlocking Australia's huge positive potential possibilities in the years ahead. Political leaders everywhere have become so negative I think they've become incapable of offering any positive leadership, thinking, or results. Maybe we as individuals just need to focus more on what Australia might be better for us having lived here and get on with making it better ourselves as individuals while we can.

I personally believe politicians these days should be called 'de-motivators' as they've become such negative & depressing entities. We're living in the best place in the world so lets start appreciating it enjoy the ride into the future with new creative idea's that other countries wished they'd thought of first.

Anyway my main point is that people like Mark Branson are what really make me feel what a great country Australia is. A positive attitude, down to earth character, great smile, and likes beer

 

[mr_wibble]

How come barley is grown down around Adelaide?

Pardon my ignorance, but those paddocks looked dry as the proverbial dead-dingoes-elbow.

I still would like to grow some myself, but living on the coastal strip, I was put off by the nay-sayers on here saying how it'd be impossible.

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

Its the ideal climate. Wheat & Barley are semi arid crops. They need dry summers for grain set. Humid areas like the coast cause damage from moulds etc.

 

[superstock]

The UK is 9th in the world in barley production. Can hardly be called semi arid and no point is more than 113 Klms from the sea.

Its the ideal climate. Wheat & Barley are semi arid crops. They need dry summers for grain set. Humid areas like the coast cause damage from moulds etc.

 

[Ducatiboy stu]

Was reffering to modern varieties.

 

[Bribie G]

In the UK I grew up in a barley growing area, Northumberland. In the UK most barley is grown along the East Coast that is in the rain shadow of the Pennines. Although it's the coldest part of the UK, the North East is surprisingly dry. I don't recall much rain when I was a kid, when I moved to Cardiff (in the West) I was surprised at the driving rain every few days. Also it was a common meme that it was always raining in Manchester (West of the Pennines) and indeed that's when the cotton industry was set up there, as the humid air prevented the threads from breaking as they got spun.

That's also why in Australia but nowhere else in the world, cotton goods are still referred to as "Manchester" and why you have the Broncos, the Blues etc as Rugby league was the native game of the cotton workers of the North West.

Next..........

h34r:

 

[Forever Wort]

Very interesting, thanks for the link. I will keep an eye on this as it develops. Australia could not only be the food bowl of Asia, but the beer pitcher too.

 

[superstock]

How come barley is grown down around Adelaide?

Pardon my ignorance, but those paddocks looked dry as the proverbial dead-dingoes-elbow.

I still would like to grow some myself, but living on the coastal strip, I was put off by the nay-sayers on here saying how it'd be impossible.

Google growing barley.

 

[Bribie G]

Google growing barley.

Are they? Is there anything that Google isn't trying to get into nowadays.

 

[Forever Wort]

I don't eat Google Barley as it stores too much information about my digestive tract in the cloud.