Barley Cultivars

[evandam]

Not important, just curious what are all the different types of barley cultivars? What cultivar is most american 2 row pale?

Marris Otter
Golden Promise
Optic ?
Halcyon ?

Any others? Like I said just curious.

 

[Beerrific]

I think Harrington is the most popular cultivar (2-row) grown in the US.

 

[BigEd]

Not important, just curious what are all the different types of barley cultivars? What cultivar is most american 2 row pale?

Marris Otter
Golden Promise
Optic ?
Halcyon ?

Any others? Like I said just curious.

Those are all UK barleys. Like Beerific said most domestic 2-row is probably Harrington although there may still be some Klages in production as well.

 

[evandam]

So so far we have ....

Marris Otter (UK)
Golden Promise (UK)
Optic (UK)
Halcyon (UK)
Harrington (US)
Klages (US)

 

[Beerrific]

Here you go:
American Malting Barley Association's publication on recommended varieties to plant.

I believe that Klages has been popular in the past, but is becoming susceptible to disease and is not being planted as much.

 

[evandam]

I assume some of those are not used in brewing, but in feed. I'm only interested in the beer ones since I don't have any cows. I find this obsession is nuts. I'm sure I will have some Ph tester and water reports soon enough. I knew beer was fun.... little did I know.

 

[Beerrific]

I assume some of those are not used in brewing, but in feed. I'm only interested in the beer ones since I don't have any cows. I find this obsession is nuts. I'm sure I will have some Ph tester and water reports soon enough. I knew beer was fun.... little did I know.

All of those in that report are of malting quality, they do not use malted barley for feed and since beer production is the number one use of malted barley, I assume they are all used for beer.

 

[evandam]

All of those in that report are of malting quality, they do not use malted barley for feed and since beer production is the number one use of malted barley, I assume they are all used for beer.

yea I guess they don't malt it before they feed. Anyway. That certainly extends the list. More cultivars then I thought.

 

[Willie3]

Wonder what the other category contains?

 

[evandam]

Here is the consensus so far. Maybe if we get enough info we could start a Wiki on barley cultivars.

Feel free to update the list.

2-row
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Marris Otter (UK)
Golden Promise (UK)
Optic (UK)
Halcyon (UK)
Harrington (US)
Klages (US)
AC Metcalfe (US)
CDC Copeland (US)
Conlon (US)
Conrad (US)
Craft (US)
Merit (US)
Scarlett (US)

6-row
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Drummond (US)
Foster (US)
Lacey (US)
Legacy (US)
Robust (US)
Stander (US)
Stellar-ND (US)
Tradition (US)

 

[evandam]

I edited a bit based on avg % seeded in 2007

US 2008 Malted Barley Varieties.
http://www.ambainc.org/pub/kymbv/KYMBV.pdf

2-row
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Marris Otter (UK)
Golden Promise (UK)
Optic (UK)
Halcyon (UK)

Harrington (US) 31.1%
AC Metcalfe (US) 28.1%
Conlon (US) 16.6%
Merit (US) 12.1%
Conrad (US) 7.3%
CDC Copeland (US) 4.8%
Scarlett (US) < 0.1%
Klages (US)
Craft (US)



6-row
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Tradition (US) 35.3%
Robust (US) 19.4%
Lacey (US) 18.1%
Legacy (US) 12.0%
Stellar-ND (US) 11.5%
Drummond (US) 2.9%
Stander (US) 0.4%
Foster (US) < 0.1%