Kvasny Prum. 1994; 40(2): 38-41 | DOI: 10.18832/kp1994003

1993 Barley crops.Peer-reviewed article

I. KRAUS, J. PROKEŠ, J. ŠUSTA

Altogether 158 barley samples were examined, harvested in barley's technological maturity under favourable weather conditions. The barley's were perfectly mature with low germinative power, posesed a characteristic straw odour and colour and remained microbiologically unaffected. Their chemical composition as well as starch, protein and moisture content, however, already witnessed less favourable values compared with those of the previous year' s crop. Under appropiately selected technological malting conditions, the examined barleys render very good modified malts, having satisfactory extractivity with optimal values of the relative extract at45 °C, attenuation, viscosity degree and Kolbach index, yet with lower friability, homogenity and higher DLFU extract difference compared with 1992 values. On the whole, the 1993 crop, however, seen from the maltster' s point of view, can be considered as one of the historically worst ones.(In Czech, English summary only)

Keywords: barley, crops, malt, evaluation

Published: February 1, 1994