homemaltster
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https://www.brewersassociation.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/Managing-Malting-Barley-and-Grains-Supply-Chain-Quality_Manual-1.pdf
Brewer's Association came out with a best practices guidelines for brewers not to allow their supply chain to use glyphosate, an active ingredient in Roundup. If it's sprayed on a field after the barley crop has headed (the seedhead emerges from the stalk), it can end up on the malt and in the finished beer.
As home brewers, we have so little control over our supply chain. We don't have an effective way to tell our malt producers and their growers that we don't want them to use Roundup. Just another good reason to grow and malt your own
Brewer's Association came out with a best practices guidelines for brewers not to allow their supply chain to use glyphosate, an active ingredient in Roundup. If it's sprayed on a field after the barley crop has headed (the seedhead emerges from the stalk), it can end up on the malt and in the finished beer.
As home brewers, we have so little control over our supply chain. We don't have an effective way to tell our malt producers and their growers that we don't want them to use Roundup. Just another good reason to grow and malt your own