barley
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But the federal government didn’t even recognize American single malt—whiskey made from 100% malted barley produced at one U.S. distillery—as a spirits category until 2025.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 16, 2026
Corn remained supported by strong demand and tighter supplies in Brazil and the U.S., while sorghum and barley increased mainly due to spillover effects.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
But it's not just wheat flour, or barley that can fuel fermentation, all sorts of substances are suitable - in biology those fermentation hosts are known as substrates.
From BBC ● Jun. 4, 2026
People appear to have shifted back toward more traditional crops such as wheat and barley during the later stages of the Late Bronze Age.
From Science Daily ● May 19, 2026
He brought them a large plate full of jumokbap, small fist-sized rice balls mixed with barley, seaweed, salt, sesame oil, and toasted sesame seeds, sitting on a white cloth to prevent sticking.
From "Finding Junie Kim" by Ellen Oh
Radiation has been used to breed high-yield barleys, leaf-spot-resistant peanuts; radioisotope tracers have shown the way to more effective use of fertilizers.
From Time Magazine Archive
Some of those related beans and barleys were indeed domesticated independently in the Americas or China, far from the early site of domestication in the Fertile Crescent.
From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond
A long series of natural hybrids of wheat, barley, and oats are also described and discussed by Rimpau, as well as artificial crosses—some very remarkable—of barleys, but they must be passed over here.
From Disease in Plants by Ward, H. Marshall
Beddoes had mastered the 'Open, Sesame' at an age when most poets are still mouthing ineffectual wheats and barleys.
From Books and Characters French and English by Strachey, Giles Lytton
Their yield is small compared with native barleys, although this may improve when they are fully acclimatised.
From Notes on Agriculture in Cyprus and Its Products by Bevan, William
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