Malting barley

Question for the folks in Canada. Do any of you know where I can get malting barley seed to plant this year. I need enough to plant 10 acres.
Chas.

brewing some beer? Seriously,any variety of barley will brew beer.

ooh, so thats why you guys have weak beer!
you need malting barley to make good pilsner beer.

Two-row and six-row barley


Two-row and six-row barley
Spikelets are arranged in triplets which alternate along the rachis. In wild barley (and other Old World species of Hordeum), only the central spikelet is fertile, while the other two are reduced. This condition is retained in certain cultivars known as two-row barleys. A pair of mutations (one dominant, the other recessive) result in fertile lateral spikelets. This produces six-row barleys. (See Cultivars).[8] Recent genetic studies have revealed a mutation in one gene, vrs1, is responsible for the transition from two-row to six-row barley.[9]
Two-row barley has a lower protein content than six-row barley and thus more fermentable sugar content. High protein barley is best suited for animal feed. Malting barley is usually lower protein[10] ('low grain nitrogen', usually produced without a late fertilizer application) which shows more uniform germination, needs shorter steeping, and has less protein in the extract that can make beer cloudy. Two-row barley is traditionally used in English ale style beers. Six-row barley is common in some American lager style beers, especially when adjuncts such as corn and rice are used, whereas two-row malted summer barley is preferred for traditional German beers.

(quoted from post at 04:18:38 01/13/12) Question for the folks in Canada. Do any of you know where I can get malting barley seed to plant this year. I need enough to plant 10 acres.
Chas.

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Assuming you have a market for it, does the buyer have a particular variety they want? I would check with some local co-ops or elevators and see if they can point you in the right direction. Are you planning on malting the barley too?

Like Cowman says,different varietys have different caracteristics.Commercial brewerys are very particular.Coors uses only'Moravian'barley,Bud has a variety they like best.Every brewery has their'favorite'.The barley must meet very stringent requirementsrotien content,color,kernel size,etc.Coors is the strictest.I used to grow barley for Coors.