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 [...]
Grain Testing Process We offer FREE quality testing to anyone interested in using their grain for food & beverage end markets. To have your grain evaluated for malting or milling quality, please send a representative 1 pound sample (~ 1 quart ziplock bag) addressed to: DEER CREEK MALTHOUSE Analytical Services 1629 E. Street Rd. [...]
Sam Kincaid, Chef/Co-owner of Cadence Restaurant It was through a fellow malt-loving baker that Sam Kincaid first came into contact with Deer Creek Malthouse several years ago. At the time, Sam’s friend Alex Bois (former head baker of High Street on Market; current owner/baker at Lost Bread Co.) had beensearching for ways to improve [...]
Malting Barley in Pennsylvania Although malting barley production and malt houses were common in colonial Pennsylvania, large adjunct beer drove malting barley from the East Coast farther west. Feed barley production has continued to the present, however malting barley is predominantly grown in the western United States, Canada, and Europe. Since 2012, we have [...]
Keystone Pale Keystone Pale is the result of more than 4 years of learning, growing, and carefully listening to feedback from the many craft food and beverage artisans who have tried our traditional floor-malted ingredients. Determined not to sacrifice quality and flavor for less labor intensive (and less costly) production methods, but eager to better [...]
From Philly.com Why PA's New Bloody Butcher Bourbon is so Bloody Good As Pennsylvania’s craft distilling industry matures, we’ve finally begun to see more aged whiskies emerge from their barrels with the ability to capture a genuine taste of local terroir. Bloody Butcher Bourbon, the latest issue from the New Liberty Distillery in Kensington, is one [...]
From Philly.com PA Dutch Malt Whiskey is a First of Many Aged Whiskeys to Come from Kensington's New Liberty Distillery "Everybody thinks I've been doing nothing for the past two years," says Robert Cassell, the master distiller who left Philadelphia Distilling (where he was cofounder and gin master behind Bluecoat) in 2014 to launch [...]
