Chinese brewers return to quality malting barley.According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Reuters, Chinese brewers This is a list of member brewers of the Brewers Association. Numbered
n. 1. Grain, usually barley, that has been allowed to sprout, used chiefly in brewing and distilling. 2. An alcoholic beverage, such as beer or ale, brewed from malt. 3. See malted milk. v. barley barley, annual cereal plant (Hordeum vulgare and sometimes other species) of the family Gramineae (grass family), cultivated by humans probably as early as any cereal. , after an experiment that had many Chinese breweries mixing in cheap feed barley. Chinese brewers had been trying to avoid higher barley prices by blending in the animal feed barley. This tactic had allowed Chinese brewers to produce cheaper beer, but the recent crop of feed barley has been so poor that the practice couldn't continue. "Everybody keeps saying 'the Chinese will buy anything, it doesn't matter'. It has been true in the past ... But last year that just went all to pot," Australian grain trade Ole Houe told Reuters. "The quality was so bad and there was not enough high quality to mix it with. Even grain that was bought very early last year, it's been in port now for six months." China is now purchasing malting barley from Canada, Europe, and Australia. |
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