Initial harvest results confirm significant regional differences
The German Brewing Barley Association published first harvest results for 2026.
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Record Heat, Cool Heads: Rheinhessen’s Brewing Barley Brings Field and Malthouse Together
Barley experts in Rheinhessen are heading out for the brewing barley tour and the Alexis Barley Field Day, which will conclude at the Wallertheim malt house.
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Crop Report #1: Why this year’s spring barley is withstanding dry weather and frost
The German Malting Barley Association published the first crop report for sping barley 2026. Based on seed sales and early estimates by Germany’s state malting barley associations, the Braugersten-Gemeinschaft (German Malting Barley Association) estimates that this year’s spring barley acreage is roughly 320,000 hectares, of which some 307,000 hectares were planted specifically with malting-quality barley….
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New malting barley variety added to the range
Following nationwide malting and brewing trials on a practical scale as part of the Berlin program, the variety committee of the Braugersten-Gemeinschaft e.V. (Malting Barley Association) has issued processing recommendations for the varieties “Excalibur” (Saatzucht Ackermann) and “LG Baryton” (Limagrain). For BESTMALZ malts, this means the following: “The ‘Excalibur’ variety is believed to have great…
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How was the Harvest of German High-quality Malting Barley in 2025?
Spring sowing conditions for the 2025 malting barley crop were excellent. Subsequently, however, the weather turned extremely variable with a severe drought in April, a cool May, and above-average rainfall in June, followed by a brief heat wave and persistent rains in July. These weather fluctuations had very different regional effects on crop development, mostly…
