#101 Bevan Fawcett - Floor Malting, Heritage Barley, Maris Otter & Selling English Malt to America

Podcast: The Curious Bartender Podcast · Tristan Stephenson

Opublikowano: 2026-11-02

Bevan Fawcett is an eight-generation maltster, and this episode was recorded on the floor maltings at Thomas Fawcett & Sons in Castleford, West Yorkshire. Fawcett’s has made malt on the same site since 1809, and it still germinates barley by hand on stone floors alongside Saladin boxes and modern germinating kilning vessels. We talk about why malt is the quiet bass player next to hops, how Fawcett’s keeps heritage varieties like Maris Otter, Golden Promise and Halcyon alive, and what it takes to persuade farmers to grow a barley that yields less. We break down what a maltster tests for...