2 Row Barley

[Jebba_the_Dog]

Rookie question here...I found from a friend who works at a local farm store that I can get 50 pounds of 2 row barley for $25. It comes from a local farmer who supplies the store. It looks just like the barley sold for home brewing. Is 2 row barley fairly the same or are there types grown that are not generally suited for brewing? Hoping it’s worthy to try!! Cheers.

 

[user 246304]

Are you planning on malting it yourself? Difficult thing to bring off, only because you likely won't know the specs going in. Either way, though, you'd need this malted - you may know that.

 

[Kent88]

Yeah, is that malted?

There are people who have tried home malting on here, I think. A quick google search of home malting might also give you some interesting results.

I hope it is already malted.

 

[Jebba_the_Dog]

Yea shoulda known the price was too good to be true. Was unaware of the difference. Back to plan A. Thanks!

 

[bleme]

I can get a 50lb bag of malted 2-row for $30 from a local brewpub.

 

[grampamark]

I'm a farmer. In this part of the world, a bushel (48 lbs) of feed barley is worth about $1.75 A bushel of malting barley is worth about $3.50. Just sayin'...

 

[Pappers_]

Yea shoulda known the price was too good to be true. Was unaware of the difference. Back to plan A. Thanks!

Don't know what your plan A is, Jebba, but depending on where you live, you might be able to get into a group buy and save some dollars in purchasing bags of malt. I usually spend around $35/50lb bag.