Malting Barley: Introduction

Malting barley is our passion. We own Maris Otter, the most revered malting barley variety in the world, and Warminster Maltings Ltd, the oldest working maltings in Britain. With our direct link to more than 250 brewer customers, we benefit from a much more informed insight into the malting barley market, which in turn provides our farmer suppliers with a distinct advantage.

“Predictably the strong market for malting barley last year has precipitated a big crop right across Europe in 2008, and a turnaround in values. Rising energy costs have already begun to point to another big crop in 2009. Managing supply to maintain premiums will be a critical role for us over the next 12 months, and farmers need to be mindful of just how important this is.”

Jonathan Arnold