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Bottles of various sorts of German beer are displayed on a stand to mark 500 years of the so-called Reinheitsgebot (purity law), during the Green Week international food, agriculture and horticulture fair in Berlin in January. The Reinheitsgebot was introduced in Bavaria in 1516 to limit ingredients used in beer production to hops, barley and water.

German beer purity in question over herbicide tests

The brewers’ association questions the test results’ scientific integrity

By Caroline Copley March 16, 2016

AGerman environmental group said Feb. 25 it has found traces of the widely used herbicide glyphosate in Germany’s 14 most popular beers, a potential blow to the country’s reputation for “pure” brewing. Industry and government immediately sought to play down the report from the Munich Environmental Institute. The Brauer-Bund beer association said the findings, which

In early September the Warwaruks purchased a 15,000-square-foot building in Neepawa for the future home of the estate brewery.

Country Crossroads, Local news

Encompassing the taste of the Prairies

After a few years of processing Farmery outside of Manitoba’s borders,  the Warwaruk brothers will soon be completing the entire beer-making process at home

By Jennifer Paige October 7, 2015

Chris and Lawrence Warwaruk are one step closer to their goal of bringing the country’s first estate brewery to Manitoba after purchasing a building for the future brewery site earlier this month. The sibling entrepreneurs purchased a 15,000-square-foot building in Neepawa, a few kilometres from the existing Farmery farm in early September. “We have a

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Beer from bread that never became a sandwich

A Brussels brewery is making beer out of stale bread to reduce waste

By Robert-jan Bartunek April 27, 2015

A small Brussels-based brewery has embarked on a project to make beer from leftover bread, harking back to antiquity, when bread, rather than barley, was the main ingredient. The idea for brewing with bread came when 31-year-old Frenchman Sebastien Morvan talked to a friend about food waste, specifically the bread thrown away because supermarkets, eager

Now in her sixth year growing hops on her Rosser-area acreage, Sandra Gowan’s  225 hops plants are now well established on their tall trellis. PHOTO: LORRAINE STEVENSON

Country Crossroads, Crops

VIDEO: Manitoba hops crop a growing concern

A Manitoba hops grower is hoping to find a way of mechanizing her harvest

By Lorraine Stevenson September 3, 2014

You’ll catch a fragrant whiff of potpourri if you stroll through Sandra Gowan’s hop yard during harvest. This is her sixth year growing the aromatic beer-making ingredient on her Rosser-area acreage, and in late August, their aroma hangs in the air. “When the hops are getting ready to be harvested, and you walk up and

Opinion

The Evolution Of On-Farm Fuel Storage

November 10, 2011

Manitoba Agricultural Museum release In the summer of 2010, while looking through a scrap pile on a western Manitoba farm for Rumely silo filler parts, a Manitoba Agricultural Museum volunteer made a much more interesting find steel oil barrels. While many readers might be thinking, Steel barrels! Do these people have nothing better to do?

Cereals, Crops

Recommended Malting Barley Varieties For 2012

November 10, 2011

The Recommended Malting Barley Varieties List for 2012- 13 has been released by the Canadian Malting Barley Technical Centre, which is made up of members of the grain-handling, malting and brewing industries. The CMBTC said the recommendations are based on the varieties expected to be selected by grain and malting companies for both domestic and

Cereals, Country Crossroads

Brothers Capitalize On Specialty Brews With Local Flavour

By Lorraine Stevenson October 20, 2011

Now they re coming back to rural Manitoba, this time with plans to start up the first estate brewery in Canada. An estate brewery differs from other breweries by producing its own ingredients. We re farmers at heart, and we just sort of wanted to get back to the land, said Lawrence, who has just

Cereals, News

Brewers And Maltsters Fund Barley Research

September 22, 2011

he Brewing and Malting Barley Research Institute (BMBRI) has announced a total of $92,000 in funding for five projects this year. BMBRI represents brewing and malting companies from Canada and across North America. We recognize that barley acreage has fallen over the past several years, and our members want to contribute to research what will

Crops

Australian Beer Hopes To Boldly Go Into Space

By Pauline Askin May 26, 2011

Wherever man has ventured, beer has followed. Now, two Australian entrepreneurs hope that will include space. Looking ahead to a future of growing space tourism, they have developed a full-bodied brew they believe can stand up to the trials of imbibing in space, including swelling tongues that diminish the sense of taste. “It’s going to

Cereals, Crops

Elite Barley Producers Share Ideas

March 10, 2011

The “Elite Barley, Canadian Malting Barley Grower Recognition Program,” recently named the 10 farmers selected by industry as top producers for the year. The goal of the program is to promote grower best management practices for malting barley, and showcase the value that malt and malt barley bring to western Canadian agriculture and the Canadian

Daily Network News

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Alberta harvest wrapping up: report

U.S. agricultural trade in a widening deficit, study shows

Tag Archives Brewing

German beer purity in question over herbicide tests

Encompassing the taste of the Prairies

Beer from bread that never became a sandwich

VIDEO: Manitoba hops crop a growing concern

The Evolution Of On-Farm Fuel Storage

Recommended Malting Barley Varieties For 2012

Brewers And Maltsters Fund Barley Research

Australian Beer Hopes To Boldly Go Into Space

Elite Barley Producers Share Ideas

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