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Malt Insider: Using COAs to Your Advantage

The stats that come with your malt can be a challenge to decipher, but cracking that code can lead to better, more consistent beer. From brewers and maltsters who know the scores, here are tips on how to make the best use of them in your brewery.

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Barley evaluation at the maltings. Photo: Courtesy Country Malt Group.
Barley evaluation at the maltings. Photo: Courtesy Country Malt Group.

Appropriately, for the owner of a brewery named Triptych, Anthony Benjamin sees his beer lineup through a threefold lens: flagship, seasonal, and terroir-driven. The particular category affects how he approaches malt—specifically, how he approaches the malt’s certificate of analysis (COA).

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