MaltEst. 2014
Red Shed Malting
Penhold, Alberta
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The role
What they make
A family-owned craft maltster in central Alberta specialising in custom malts from local barley.
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Tally's take
Why it matters
Fourth-generation barley farmers who got tired of selling commodity grain into a system that never named them, so they built a malthouse and a roaster on the farm. This is the shortest supply chain in Alberta beer: barley, malt and brewery within sight of each other.