CCNB Workshop : Regional malts for a regional beer

[jamie_savoie]

Grand-Falls CCNB is making this workshop Febuary 18th in Edmundston
The agenda is attached
For those interested coming, feel free to crash at my place

[paulmaybee]

I might just take you up on that Jamie.  Maybe combine it with a brew day?

[paulmaybee]

got my ticket!

[jamie_savoie]

I don't think we'll have time for a brewday (maybe the day after?) but most def a sampling session 

[paulmaybee]

Yeah, maybe the day after?  Sampling session for sure thought!

[jamie_savoie]

from the organizers:

There will be a panel discussion in the after-noon please send us your malt related questions

If any of you have some questions that you want me to ask let me know

[pliny]

just curious, was this a good day?

Informative? Was it worth it?

[jamie_savoie]

Yep, really informative and a good investment of my time and money, meet new people and made some good contacts

It won't make me brew better beer per se, but it was really fun and informative speaking and hearing people from the industry besides brewers.  There're was farmers, maltster, brewing engineer from Belgium, chemist, biologist, and biochemist and brewers (Grimross, Petit Sault, one from La Pocatière)

Dany from MaltBroue is looking at "franchising" his malthouse or his malting setup and there's one malting barley producer from the st-john valley looking at getting into malting with Dany's setup.  There's also talk of one in PEI and maybe a few in Quebec as well in the future but nothing confirmed yet

And looks like the grains producer (from around here anyway) will get more into growing malting barley instead of just feed barley or else.  It'll be the "rotation crop" for some of the potatoes growers
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The goal is no less to have local grown barley, malted here in the Maritimes without shipping it all over the places and brewed locally so that we can truly say that's it's a 100% local beer 

Exciting times for the brewing industry in NB

[Scott]

that's awesome Jamie

[Two Wheeler]

I wonder if Moosehead and Molson would buy up most of the stock, or if it would be too expensive for them?

[jamie_savoie]

I don't think it'll be a product that interests them. 1- it'll be a bit more expensive then G&P (or else) and 2- it'll be a malt with more flavour (as compared to 2-row) for their bland product lol
But I can tell you that Grimross and Petit Sault (and more) intend to use their product.  And a bunch of micros from Quebec already use maltbroue crystals (and now the pale malt). Petit Sault next pale ale will be made 100% with Maltbroue malt.  I also just did a pale ale with it and it's pretty good stuff

[paulmaybee]

I also have some malts from them if anyone (in F'ton area) is interested in trying a small amount of them, let me know!  I just made a pale ale with their base malt, but it's still in the 2ndary so no feedback yet.