Uk Malt Malting Barley News from MAGB
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Unripe Grains

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Unripe Grains
Barley has to grow evenly during the malting process to ensure high quality malt. Unripe or damaged corns cause problems; they do not producing any usable extract (or spirit yield for distilling), and they can impair the quality of the finished malt.