Mobile brewery producing beer from Alabama-grown barley malt

Thanks to a collaboration of experts from HudsonAlpha, Auburn University, and Alabama A&M University, a brewery in Mobile is selling and producing the first beer made with barley malt grown and produced within the Yellowhammer State. “We brewed a fresh and floral pale ale, which we call Harvest Ale,” David Nelson, brewmaster at Braided River Brewing Company, said. “The malt tastes great and is the same quality as any other malt we’ve ever used. Most of our malt is usually sourced from the Upper Midwest.” The barley, according to Nelson, isn’t the only thing found in the beer that was grown