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STUDIES OF AMERICAN BARLEYS AND MALTS. 



Comparison of high and low protein malts Continued. 



The hulls of 6-row malt form a much larger percentage of the grain 

 than do the hulls of 2-row malts, and yet the protein content of the 

 6-row barley is 1.5 per cent higher than that of the 2-row variety. 

 These two factors only emphasize how much smaller the percentage 

 of carbohydrates must be in 6-row than in 2-row barley malts. 



Malts are sometimes rejected by brewers because of a high bushel 

 weight. The following table will show that this factor is absolutely 

 useless when considered alone, for very often those malts having a 

 high bushel weight will give a larger yield of extract in the coarse 

 grist than malts of lower weight per bushel. 



Comparison of weight per bushel and yield of extract. 



As Wallerstein rt has shown, a high bushel weight of malt is no 

 more an indication of inferiority than is the low weight per bushel a 



a Communications from Laboratory and -Scientific Station for Brewing, Sec. 

 Ann. Rep., 1904. 



