date:Apr 16, 2013
investigate the best growing methods.
We wanted to find out how the variety performed, what the malt was like and how the beer tasted, said Dr. Chris Ridout who leads the project.
Dr Ridout and his team revived the variety from seed in JICs Genetic Resources Unit and started to evaluate its performance. In collaboration with Brewlab and the University of Sunderland, the scientists discovered that Chevallier had valuable disease resistance that can prevent contamination of grain with mycotoxin