Craft Malt in a Can - same great malt taste without the alcohol NOW AVAILABLE! We're excited to share a brand new malty beverage with you at your local farmers' market and through our online shop at barleyteatime.com. A nod to Korean Boricha and Japanese Mugicha, Barley Tea, our stateside variation of roasted barley tea, [...]
PA Pride 4.0 Collaboration Brew In a continued effort to link the Pennsylvania craft beer community with local agriculture, breweries throughout the Commonwealth are excited to announce the newest installment in the ongoing PA Pride series. The previous releases included: The original “PA Pride” Hazy Pale Ale. Released in November 2020, the inaugural PA Pride brew was named after the love [...]
Collaborative Spelt Lager Brew in the News We're thrilled to be featured alongside our friends at Tröegs Independent Brewing in a recent episode of Poured in PA! Rewinding back to March, the segment centers around Scratch 430, a collaborative brew developed for the 2021 Grain & Malt Symposium. Poured in PA interviews Deer Creek owner/founder [...]
Pastiera is a traditional Neapolitan Easter dessert with a mythological origin story: the Neopolitans offered the city’s most precious ingredients--ricotta, citrus, spring eggs, milk and whole grains--to the mermaid Pertenope, who chose the Gulf of Naples as her home, to thank her for her beautiful voice. The mermaid mixed the offerings together and created the [...]
Now enjoy PSL in a malty cake recipe! Here’s a great opportunity to support your favorite local maltster, farmer, and coffee roaster at the same time! Ingredients: Dry ingredients 1/3 c Pale Wheat Malt 1/3 c Pale Oat Malt 2/3 c AP Flour 2/3 tsp Baking soda 1/4 tsp Baking Powder 1/2 tsp Black Peppercorn [...]
Stone Fruit Galette This French-style pastry is similar to a tart or a pie with dough wrapped over a filling made from fruit, sugar, and crème fraiche. Made with all local organic grain and malt flour! Yields 8 servings Ingredients: Pale Wheat Pate Brisee 2 ¾ c (350g) organic all-purpose flour ¾ c (100g) pale wheat [...]
Our Promise to You The past few months have been challenging and emotional to say the least. As we approach barley harvest I can't help but reflect on the journey. A journey that, to date, has kept everyone on the Deer Creek team employed and healthy despite a global pandemic that has rocked the [...]
Malty Dog Biscuits April 20th, 2020, Monday. Week 5 of fully remote work from home. Between local farmers markets and home delivery service we're good on most basic groceries but our dog Ziggy has run out of snacks. Unacceptable! I'm no canine nutritionist, but my experience tells me that most human foods are not [...]
We can do better Pennsylvania For several years now, Pennsylvania has boasted some of the highest sales and production statistics among all craft breweries. In 2018 there were 354 licensed breweries (ranked 6th) that produced approximately 3.7M barrels of beer (ranked 1st) and created an estimated 6.3B in economic impact (ranked 2nd). That's an [...]
Malting Barley Quality Specifications Malt is an important ingredient in beer that provides a source of starch and enzymes necessary to produce fermentable sugars which yeast then turn into alcohol. Malt also provides color, flavor, an foam compounds which contribute to the final character of beer. Malt is also used to produce spirits and [...]
