Beer History Storyline
Malt
Explore the changing techniques of malting, kilning, roasting, and grain selection that made new beer colors and styles possible.
Chronological milestones
Sources and further references are available on each individual event page.
32nd century BCE
Brewers at Mijiaya Use Barley, Millet, and Tubers
500 BC
Celtic Brewers Malt Barley at Hochdorf
March 23, 1601
Jan Ostroróg Grants New Statutes to Grodzisk’s Maltsters and Brewers
July 23, 1635
Nicholas Halse Patents a Smoke-Free Malt Kiln
1642
Coke-Fired Malt Production Enables Pale Ale Brewing
1703
First Recorded Use Of The Term Pale Ale
May 31, 1802
Matthew Wood Patents a Malt-Based Beer Coloring
1813
Peter Hemings Takes Charge of Brewing and Malting at Monticello
March 28, 1817
Wheeler Patents a Method for Roasting Malt
1820
Chevallier Barley Spreads from a Suffolk Farm Selection
1833
Anselme Payen and Jean-François Persoz Isolate Diastase from Malt
July 25, 1833
Dreher and Sedlmayr Study British Brewing in London
1841
Anton Dreher Starts To Brew The First Vienna Lager
1842
Patent For A Pneumatic Dryer
October 5, 1842
First Pilsner Urquell Brewday
1846
William Tizard Describes the Production of Blown Malt
1873
Galland Introduces Pneumatic Malting Boxes
1879
Johann Baptist Weyermann Founds His Specialty Malt Business in Bamberg
1881
Charles Saladin Mechanizes Pneumatic Malting
1883
Johan Kjeldahl Introduces a New Method for Nitrogen Analysis
1887
Joseph Williams Lovibond Introduces the Tintometer
1935
Schlenkerla and Spezial Become Bamberg’s Last Traditional Rauchbier Brewers
1938
The Malt Research Institute Coordinates American Barley Improvement
1966
Maris Otter Barley Is Released
January 1, 1988
Nigeria’s Barley-Malt Import Ban Accelerates Sorghum Brewing Research
1992
Maris Otter Is Saved from Disappearance
1993
Fusarium Head Blight Devastates Northern Plains Malting Barley
October 17, 2012
An International Consortium Publishes an Ordered Barley Genome Resource