Craft beer boom drives revival in barley demand
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A BATCH of barley that lay forgotten for almost 100 years in storage at a farm in Portland, Oregon, has found new life - thanks to the booming demand for craft beer.
It turns out the barley makes a malt that is much in demand from Oregon's growing legion of craft brewers and is among a wave of ancient varieties revived by the likes of GrainCorp Ltd, the giant Australian crop handler that also ranks as the world's fourth-biggest malting company.
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