Mill Green’s own barley is being malted, and they’ll be making beer out of it very soon!

Mill Green Brewery has a 14 acre field about 3 miles from the brewery, and late last summer they harvested their first crop of malting barley.

Warminster Maltings have malted the barley and although they are not the local maltsters, Mill Green say they have used them because their size made it possible to malt small batches, and they also have a good commitment to producing Organic Malt.

Mill Green Brewery will get over 10t of pale malt. For a small brewery (4.5 Barrel plant) that should keep them going for a while.

John Norton (brewery owner and grain trader) said, “‘Our 14t of Organic Westminster spring barley was a very good sample in both analysis and size.”

“The as grown sample tested 1.24% N2 and 94.5% over the 2.5mm screen/1.6% thru the 2.2mm screen.
Organic farming doesn’t force grow using artificial fertilisers so tends to produce a better sample.
It is now being malted at Warminster floor maltings, one of the few floor maltings left in the UK.
We will be using it in our Organic beers during 2010 so expect some superb beers!.”

On the same field Green Mill also have 200 hop plants (8 varieties) that should yield their first harvest later this summer, these are all organically certified.