Evaluation of Brazilian s malting barley potential 152 Evaluation of Brazilian s malting barley potential. Cereal Science and Technology Lab, Dept. Food Science and Technology, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Florian polis, Brazil. Brazil is the sixth beer producer world-wide with an average annual consumption of 35 liters per person. Most of the malt used in the production of Brazilian malt is imported.
Brazilian malt has a reputation of poor quality and unreliable performance.
The only avaliable data relates to yield, plague resistance, and other agronomical findings. As a first step to improve malt quality, the main commercially avaliable cultivars were characterized in terms of their physico-chemical attributes. This work compares national and Argentinian barley cultivars in terms of chemical composition, beta-glucan contents, and grain microstructure. All rights reserved.