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RahrBSG is the exclusive distributor of Weyermann® Barke® malts to brewers in North America. This heirloom barley once enjoyed the highest reputation among German brewers and was the most widely used barley variety. Barke® brings an intense malt flavor, full-body and helps promote conditions for improved head retention. 
 

The crack of the bat. The roar of the crowd. The smell of hot dogs and popcorn wafting on the breeze. Add a cold crisp beer to enjoy while cheering on the home team and you can’t lose.   Summertime means baseball, and baseball means beer! For those of us in Minnesota (home base to […]

Way back in 1879, the same year Edison invented the light bulb in New Jersey, Johann Baptist Weyermann pitched a tent and fired up a malt-roasting drum in Bamberg, Germany. The world’s been a brighter place ever since. What was true 143 years ago remains true today: Great beer comes from great ingredients. With their […]

Good day, Friends and Fermentation Enthusiasts. This year’s Craft Brewers Conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, is bound to be unforgettable. To ensure the best damn booth experience a beer conference attendee ever encountered, Brewers Jake Thompson and Sean Tynan of the Rahr Technical Center have put together an absolute banger of a beer lineup for […]

Coca-Cola was first sold in bottles in Vicksburg, Mississippi, on March 12, 1894. Just nine days later on March 21 of the same year, the Spaten Brewery of Munich, Germany, debuted something quite different: The world’s first Helles lager.   Today Coca-Cola claims to sell over 1.9 billion servings of their dark soft drink each day. […]

While the crisp, cool days of fall seem a world away, the truth is it’s never too soon to think about Oktoberfest beers. In fact, German-Style Märzen – or Märzenbier (literally March beer) – are traditionally brewed in the spring or early summer and given a lengthy lager treatment for optimal malt-driven drinking pleasure in […]

For Northbound Smokehouse & Brewpub, 2024 was truly the Year of the Bock. The Minneapolis brewery’s rich and robust doppelbock – crafted using 100% Weyermann® malts – dominated on both the local and global stages, winning the top prize in Dark Lagers category at the Minnesota Craft Brewers Guild’s MN Brewers Cup in March. A […]

Bad Weather Brewing Company of St. Paul, MN has built a reputation on their flavorful ales like flagships Ominous (a double brown ale) and Windvane (a red IPA). Recently, though, they’ve added a series of German lagers to their lineup that…

GABF medal winners tell us how it feels to win with Weyermann®.

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Producing non-alcoholic beer (NAB) has become a winning strategy for craft breweries of all sizes. But’s the best way to go about it? In this article, we provide resources and take a deeper dive into the method of using the maltose-negative yeast strain Fermentis SafBrew™ LA-01 to produce NAB, complete with experience-based advice from the […]

Although religious devotion to beer may seem like a modern phenomenon unique to millennials and the craft movement, beer and religion have been connected as long as well…beer and religion. Whether in celebration or condemnation, beer has always played a role in humanity’s spiritual life. In fact, some of the earliest brewers were monks and […]