Tally's Beer Archive

Agriculture & Ingredients

Barley growers

Beer is mostly barley, and almost nobody records which barley. This archive can tell you who owns a brewery, when it opened and what happened when it closed — and for all but a handful of records, it cannot tell you what was in the mash or who grew it.

7
Breweries with a grain note
5
Grow their own
2
Regional grain
31
Farms & malthouses named
72
Barley varieties
0.1%
Of the archive

This is a gap, and it is stated on purpose

7 records out of 11,002, and 31 farms named. This page said for a long time that the archive held no barley variety at all — that is no longer true, and the 72 below are why: 14 named cultivars with their breeders, their registration dates and the maltsters using them, and 65 varieties the American Malting Barley Association recommended to maltsters and brewers between 1959 and 1995, each with the years it was on the list. Most of those carry no breeder yet, because the list does not say, and the record says UNKNOWN rather than guess. What is still missing is scale. A few dozen records is not a layer, and we would rather build the rest with the people who breed and malt the grain than invent it and correct thousands of records later. If you know where a brewery's malt comes from, that is exactly the sort of thing the archive wants sent to it.

The barley itself

Named cultivars, with who bred them and when the rights were granted, and — for the American lists — the years each one was recommended. A variety belongs to no single brewery — it is grown by many farms and malted by many maltsters, which is exactly what makes a pint traceable back to a plant-breeding programme.

  • AAC Connect

    Two-row malting barley

    Bred by Bill Legge / Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada at Brandon, Manitoba

    PBR granted 2017

    CMBTC recommended malting barley varieties: 2025-2026

    Established Canadian malting variety

    Used by Red Shed Malting / Hamill Farms · 2021 Hamill Farms crop · Hamill Farms (historical) · Red Shed Malting (historical)

  • AAC Prairie

    CFIA registration No. 9474, registered 2021-11-26 (National Registration; Barley, two-row, Spring; experimental line TR17255, BM0850-029)

    CMBTC varieties in development: 2025-2026

  • AAC Synergy

    Two-row malting barley

    Bred by Bill Legge / Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada at Brandon, Manitoba

    PBR granted 2013

    CMBTC recommended malting barley varieties: 2025-2026

    Canadian malting variety

    Used by Lenz Farms / Siding 14 supply context · Lenz trials; Siding 14 documented use · Hamill Farms (historical)

  • AB BrewNet

    Two-row malting barley

    Bred by Patricia Juskiw / Alberta Agriculture FCDC at Lacombe

    Cross made 2006; PBR granted 2022

    Good malting quality; good lodging resistance; Canadian malting class listing

    Used by Red Shed Malting · Olds College Brewery — Brew Ha Ha · Red Shed Malting (historical)

  • AB Dram

    Two-row malting barley

    Bred by Patricia Juskiw / Alberta Agriculture FCDC at Lacombe

    Cross made 2003; PBR granted 2023

    CMBTC registered non-GN barley varieties (distilling and brewing): 2025-2026

    CFIA states good malting quality

    Used by Hamill Farms (historical) · Red Shed Malting (current)

  • AB Foothills

    Two-row malting barley

    Bred by Yadeta Kabeta / Olds College-FCDC / WCI at Lacombe

    Co-op testing 2020-2022; rights granted 2025

    CMBTC varieties in development: 2025-2026

    Registered malting-barley line developed for western conditions

  • AC Metcalfe

    Two-row malting barley

    Bred by AAFC legacy variety at Canada

    legacy

    Benchmark Canadian malting variety

    Used by Siding 14; Kettle Ridge historical crop · Documented historic use

  • Advance

    Six-row malting barley

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — Western six-row: 1982-1985

  • Andre

    Two-row malting barley

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — two-row: 1984-1990

  • Atlas 46

    Six-row malting barley

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — Western six-row: 1959-1971

  • Azure

    Six-row malting barley

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — Midwest six-row: 1983-

  • B1202

    Two-row malting barley

    CFIA registration No. 5043, registered 2000-01-18 (National Registration; Barley, two-row, Spring; experimental line TR934, 2081-4038)

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — two-row: 1993-

  • B1602

    Six-row malting barley

    CFIA registration No. 3417, registered 1991-04-12 (National Registration; Barley, six-row, Spring; experimental line BT-922, 6B82-2870)

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — Midwest six-row: 1993-

  • B1603

    Six-row malting barley

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — Midwest six-row: 1991-

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — Western six-row: 1991-1992

  • B2601

    Six-row malting barley

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — Western six-row: 1993-

  • Barbless

    Six-row malting barley

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — Midwest six-row: Pre 1959

  • Beacon

    Six-row malting barley

    CFIA registration No. 2082, registered 1981-03-16 (Cancelled; Barley, six-row, Spring; experimental line CI15480, NDB140, BT903)

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — Midwest six-row: 1974-1982

  • Betzes

    Two-row malting barley

    CFIA registration No. 783, registered 1960-03-03 (Cancelled; Barley, two-row, Spring)

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — two-row: 1959-1983

  • Bill Coors 100

    CFIA registration No. 9160, registered 2020-11-06 (National Registration; Barley, two-row, Spring; experimental line PoP08-150-031, Moravian 150)

    CMBTC additional malting varieties (contracting options): 2025-2026

  • Blazer

    Six-row malting barley

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — Western six-row: 1976-1981

  • Bonanza

    Six-row malting barley

    CFIA registration No. 1210, registered 1970-01-08 (National Registration; Barley, six-row, Spring; experimental line BT 308)

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — Midwest six-row: 1974-1983

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — Western six-row: 1978-1979

  • CDC Bow

    Two-row malting barley

    Bred by Aaron Beattie / University of Saskatchewan Crop Development Centre at Saskatoon

    PBR granted 2016

    Good malting quality; strong straw

    Used by Lenz Farms; Hamill/Red Shed historical featured variety · Lenz trials / CMBTC farm profile · Red Shed Malting (historical)

  • CDC Churchill

    Two-row malting barley

    Bred by Aaron Beattie / University of Saskatchewan Crop Development Centre at Saskatoon

    PBR granted 2021

    CMBTC recommended malting barley varieties: 2025-2026

    Good malting quality; low-protein craft profile

    Used by Red Shed Malting / Hamill Farms · 2021 Hamill Farms crop · Hamill Farms (current) · Red Shed Malting (current)

  • CDC Copeland

    Two-row malting barley

    Bred by University of Saskatchewan Crop Development Centre at Saskatchewan

    established legacy variety

    CMBTC recommended malting barley varieties: 2025-2026

    Long-established Canadian malting variety

    Used by Hogarth Malt / Kettle Ridge; Siding 14 supply context · Kettle Ridge mainstay; Siding 14 documented use

  • CDC Fraser

    Two-row malting barley

    Bred by Aaron Beattie / University of Saskatchewan Crop Development Centre at Saskatoon

    PBR granted 2018

    CMBTC recommended malting barley varieties: 2025-2026

    Two-row malt variety

    Used by Lenz Farms · Lenz variety trials

  • CDC Goldstar

    CFIA registration No. 8201, registered 2017-03-24 (National Registration; Barley, two-row, Spring; experimental line TR13812, SM105054)

    CMBTC additional malting varieties (contracting options): 2025-2026

  • Chinook

    Two-row malting barley

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — two-row: 1995-

  • Clark

    Two-row malting barley

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — two-row: 1984-1991

  • Conquest

    Six-row malting barley

    CFIA registration No. 960, registered 1965-02-22 (Cancelled; Barley, six-row, Spring)

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — Midwest six-row: 1969-1977

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — Western six-row: 1977

  • Crest

    Two-row malting barley

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — two-row: 1992-

  • Crystal

    Two-row malting barley

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — two-row: 1990-

  • Dickson

    Six-row malting barley

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — Midwest six-row: 1968-1979

  • Excel

    Six-row malting barley

    CFIA registration No. 4801, registered 1998-08-19 (National Registration; Barley, six-row, Spring; experimental line M52, PI 54207)

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — Midwest six-row: 1990-

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — Western six-row: 1991

  • Firlbecks III

    Two-row malting barley

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — two-row: 1966-1979

  • Glenn

    Six-row malting barley

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — Midwest six-row: 1980-1986

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — Western six-row: 1982-1985

  • Hanna

    Two-row malting barley

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — two-row: 1959-1972

  • Hannchen

    Two-row malting barley

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — two-row: 1959-1977

  • Harrington

    Two-row malting barley

    CFIA registration No. 2126, registered 1981-05-13 (National Registration; Barley, two-row, Spring; experimental line TR444)

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — two-row: 1989-

  • Heines Hanna

    Two-row malting barley

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — two-row: 1959-1963

  • Karl

    Six-row malting barley

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — Western six-row: 1975-1981

  • Karla

    Six-row malting barley

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — Western six-row: 1983-1990

  • Kimberly

    Two-row malting barley

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — two-row: 1978-1984

  • Kindred

    Six-row malting barley

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — Midwest six-row: Pre 1959-1965

  • Klages

    Two-row malting barley

    CFIA registration No. 1731, registered 1977-02-25 (Cancelled; Barley, two-row, Spring; experimental line TR905)

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — two-row: 1974-

  • Kris

    Two-row malting barley

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — two-row: 1983-1984

  • Larker

    Six-row malting barley

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — Midwest six-row: 1963-1984

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — Western six-row: 1968-1984

  • Legacy

    CFIA registration No. 5484, registered 2002-05-04 (National Registration; Barley, six-row, Spring; experimental line BT950, 6B93-2978)

    CMBTC additional malting varieties (contracting options): 2025-2026

  • Lowe

    Two-row malting barley

    Bred by Field Crop Development Centre at Lacombe

    Registered 2016

    Craft-brewing-oriented malting quality plus Fusarium head blight resistance

    Used by Red Shed Malting · Olds College Brewery — Lowe Down one-off · Hamill Farms (historical) · Red Shed Malting (historical)

  • Manker

    Six-row malting barley

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — Midwest six-row: 1976-1983

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — Western six-row: 1979-1984

  • Montcalm

    Six-row malting barley

    CFIA registration No. 439, registered 1945-04-05 (Cancelled; Barley, six-row, Spring)

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — Midwest six-row: Pre 1959-1963

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — Western six-row: 1959-1963

  • Moravian

    Two-row malting barley

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — two-row: 1962-1974

  • Moravian III

    Two-row malting barley

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — two-row: 1975-

  • Morex

    Six-row malting barley

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — Midwest six-row: 1979-

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — Western six-row: 1980-

  • Newdale / AC Newdale

    Two-row malting barley

    Bred by Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada at Brandon, Manitoba

    PBR granted 2003; rights ended 2021

    Established malting variety

    Used by Siding 14 supply context · Documented Siding 14 ingredient use · Hamill Farms (historical) · 24-2 Draft Horses (historical) · Red Shed Malting (historical)

  • O.A.C. 21

    Six-row malting barley

    CFIA registration No. 10131, registered 2024-02-02 (National Registration; Barley, six-row, Spring; experimental line OAC 21)

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — Midwest six-row: Pre 1959-1961

  • Oderbrucker

    Six-row malting barley

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — Midwest six-row: Pre 1959-1962

  • Park

    Six-row malting barley

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — Midwest six-row: 1978-1983

  • Parkland

    Six-row malting barley

    CFIA registration No. 677, registered 1956-03-01 (Cancelled; Barley, six-row, Spring)

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — Midwest six-row: 1960-1968

  • Piroline

    Two-row malting barley

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — two-row: 1966-1986

  • Premier

    Two-row malting barley

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — two-row: 1985-1988

  • Robust

    Six-row malting barley

    CFIA registration No. 4800, registered 1998-08-19 (National Registration; Barley, six-row, Spring; experimental line M36, PI 476976)

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — Midwest six-row: 1984-

  • Russell

    Six-row malting barley

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — Western six-row: 1991-

  • Shabet

    Two-row malting barley

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — two-row: 1972-1984

  • Sirish

    Two-row spring malting-type barley

    Bred by Syngenta Participations AG, Basel, Switzerland (cross made at Syngenta UK Ltd, Market Stainton) at Market Stainton, UK; registered in Canada

    Cross SY409-209 × NFS 4789 made in 2009; tested in Canada as TR14928 (experimental SY411-292); Plant Breeders' Rights applied 2016-05-12, granted 2019-11-25, certificate 6092; rights holder Syngenta Crop Protection AG, Basel (CFIA, read 2026-10-09)

    Used by Red Shed Malting · Blindman Brewing — 24-2 Stock Ale · Red Shed Malting (current) · 24-2 Draft Horses (current)

  • Stander

    Six-row malting barley

    CFIA registration No. 5030, registered 1999-12-09 (National Registration; Barley, six-row, Spring; experimental line BT202)

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — Midwest six-row: 1995-

  • SY Stanza

    CFIA registration No. 10305, registered 2024-07-19 (National Registration; Barley, two-row, Spring; experimental line TR20933)

    CMBTC registered non-GN barley varieties (distilling and brewing): 2025-2026

    Used by Hamill Farms · Hamill Farms (current)

  • TR21665

    Two-row malting barley

    Bred by Western Crop Innovations at Lacombe

    Supported for registration 2024; commercialization offered 2025

    Only malting variety WCI says received support for registration in the prior two years

  • Traill

    Six-row malting barley

    CFIA registration No. 712, registered 1957-04-01 (Cancelled; Barley, six-row, Spring; experimental line C.A.N. 226)

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — Midwest six-row: Pre 1959-1976

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — Western six-row: 1961-1976

  • Trophy

    Six-row malting barley

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — Midwest six-row: 1963-1976

  • Vanguard

    Two-row malting barley

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — two-row: 1972-1983

  • White Winter/Idaho Club

    Six-row malting barley

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — Western six-row: 1959-1973

  • Winter Tennessee

    Six-row malting barley

    AMBA recommended malting barley varieties — Western six-row: 1959-1971

The farms and malthouses

Places recorded in their own right, because a field is not a brewery and the archive keeps them apart. Where a farm is not tied to a brewery, that is a finding rather than an omission.

  • Farm brewery

    Canada

    No brewery link established

  • Farm brewery

    Canada

    No brewery link established

  • Farm brewery

    Canada

    No brewery link established

  • Farm brewery

    Canada

    No brewery link established

  • Farm brewery

    11109 Plank Rd

    Spotsylvania, Virginia, USA

    Operated by 1781 Brewing Company

    1781 Brewing Company

  • Farm brewery

    13274 Sagle Rd

    Hillsboro, Virginia, USA

    Operated by Notaviva Brewing

    Notaviva Brewing

  • Farm brewery

    150 Ridgemont Rd

    Middletown, Virginia, USA

    Operated by Backroom Brewery

    Backroom Brewery

  • Farm brewery

    151 Buffington Hill Road

    Worthington, USA

    Operated by Sena Farm Brewery

    No brewery link established

  • Farm brewery

    18301 Whitehall Estate Lane

    Bluemont, Virginia, USA

    Operated by Bluemont Station Brewery & Winery

    Bluemont Station Brewery & Winery

  • Farm brewery

    18701 Foggy Bottom Road

    Bluemont, Virginia, USA

    Operated by Dirt Farm Brewing

    Dirt Farm Brewing

  • Farm brewery

    1915 County 22 Road, Bath, ON K0H 1G0

    Bath, Ontario, Canada

    Operated by MacKinnon Brothers Brewing Co.

    MacKinnon Brothers Brewing Co.

  • Farm brewery

    20 Stetson Brothers Rd

    Colrain, Massachusetts, USA

    Operated by Stoneman Brewery

    Stoneman Brewery

  • Farm brewery

    2585 S. F T Valley Rd

    Etlan, Virginia, USA

    Operated by Shotwell Run Brewing Company

    Shotwell Run Brewing Company

  • Farm brewery

    3106 Northwest Bay Rd, Nanoose Bay, BC V9P 9E2

    Nanoose Bay, British Columbia, Canada · 2022

    Operated by Rusted Rake Brewing

    Rusted Rake Brewing

  • Farm brewery

    4100 Knolls Point Drive

    Goochland, Virginia, USA

    Operated by Lickinghole Creek Craft Brewery

    Lickinghole Creek Craft Brewery

  • Farm brewery

    4176 Swover Creek Rd

    Edinburg, Virginia, USA

    Operated by Swover Creek Farms & Brewery

    Swover Creek Farms & Brewery

  • Farm brewery

    42245 Black Hops Lane

    Leesburg, Virginia, USA

    Operated by Vanish Farmwoods Brewery

    Vanish Farmwoods Brewery

  • Farm brewery

    43271 Spinks Ferry Rd

    Leesburg, Virginia, USA

    Operated by Barnhouse Brewery

    Barnhouse Brewery

  • Farm brewery

    4567 Line 12 N, Coldwater, ON L0K 1E0

    Oro-Medonte, Ontario, Canada

    Operated by Quayle's Brewery

    Quayle's Brewery

  • Farm brewery

    508 Pine Meadow Road

    Northfield, Massachusetts, USA

    Operated by The Brewery at Four Star Farms

    The Brewery at Four Star Farms

  • Farm brewery

    5255 Higher Ground Trail

    Jeffersonton, Virginia, USA

    Operated by Death Ridge Brewery

    Death Ridge Brewery

  • Farm brewery

    60 Great Valley Lane

    Natural Bridge, Virginia, USA

    Operated by Great Valley Farm Brewery & Winery

    Great Valley Farm Brewery & Winery

  • Farm brewery

    8400 Old Church Road

    New Kent, Virginia, USA

    Operated by Talleysville Brewing Company

    Talleysville Brewing Company

  • Farm brewery

    876 County Rd 49, Prince Edward County, ON K0K 2T0

    Prince Edward County, Ontario, Canada

    Operated by Parsons Brewing Company

    Parsons Brewing Company

  • Farm brewery

    912 White Post Rd

    White Post, Virginia, USA

    Operated by Twisted Oak Farm Brewery

    Twisted Oak Farm Brewery

  • Farm brewery

    9269 Redemption Way

    Midland, Virginia, USA

    Operated by Powers Farm & Brewery

    Powers Farm & Brewery

  • Farm brewery

    9519 Critzers Shop Road

    Afton, Virginia, USA

    Operated by Blue Mountain Brewery

    Blue Mountain Brewery

  • Farm brewery

    Barka 28, 6217 Vremski Britof

    Barka, Slovenia

    Operated by Pivovarna Ambrožič

    Pivovarna Ambrožič

  • Hop farm

    Campbell Creek, east of Kamloops

    Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada · until 1972

    No brewery link established

  • Farm brewery

    Krasinec 55A, 8332 Gradac

    Metlika / Gradac, Slovenia

    Operated by Kapušin Kraft Pivovarna

    Kapušin Kraft Pivovarna

  • Hop farm

    Sunnyside area, Yakima Valley, Washington

    Sunnyside, Washington, USA

    No brewery link established

Hop farm: 2 · Grain farm: 0 · Malthouse: 0 · Farm brewery: 29. Grain buyers, seed and variety records, and water sources are not modelled at all yet.

Estate — they grow it themselves

The brewery farms the barley it brews with, on its own land. The shortest possible supply chain, and the rarest.

Regional — grown and malted nearby

Not their own field, but their own region. The distinction matters: one is farming, the other is buying well.

The discovery layer this feeds

From Field to Pint

A brewery record that connects to its beers, its owners, and then further back still: the barley variety behind the malt, who malted it, the hop variety and who bred it, the yeast strain and where it came from. Follow a pint back to a field and a plant-breeding programme.

None of that exists here yet. It is written down so that the version which does get built can be checked against what was promised — and because the researchers who could help design it are more likely to answer a clear gap than a finished-looking page. How the archive decides what to publish.