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Barley Zine!

We're excited to bring you a barley zine, edited and illustrated by Katie Gourley, in collaboration with Oregon State researchers Pat Hayes, Brigid Meints, Jordyn Bunting and recipe testers Adrian Hale and Lane Selman! This spring 2020 edition contains a wealth of barley information and inspiration, including history, definitions of barley-related terms, and recipes for creating your own grain salad as well as breads, crackers desserts and beverages using our favorite grain!

Click here or on the picture to download the Spring 2020 Barley Zine!

Organic Barley Producer Survey Results

Researchers surveyed organic barley producers in order to find out how many acres they are growing, what varieties they grow, what markets they are growing barley for, whether they receive a price premium for organic barley, whether they are growing or would be interested in growing multi-use naked barley, what production challenges they face, and what traits they would like to see improved.

Download the survey results here

Bulletin: Brewing Beer with 'Buck' Naked Barley: Worts and All

Joel Rea, head brewer at Corvallis Brewing Supplies reveals how he created two beers using 'Buck' naked barley, which were sampled at the 2019 Oregon State University Barley Day. Although naked barley malts have not historically played much of a role in brewing because of the importance of the hull as a natural filtering agent during lautering, breweries without mash filters, and homebrewers can use them to make delicious beers! Read and download the bulletin here.

Bulletin: Roasted Barley Tea

The Oregon Barley Project Roasted Barley Tea Initiative Phase 2: Exploring the effects of variety and method of preparation on roasted barley tea flavor. Learn about results of experiments and sensory evaluations with different naked barley genotypes conducted in 2018 with a new roasting system and different methods of brewing.

Naked Barley Bulletin #1: Roasted Barley Tea: Learn how to make this healthy and tasty drink which has been popular in Asia for thousands of years! This bulletin also describes some of the research which is being done by the NIFA OREI team to assess and discover the best-flavored varieties for barley tea. Organic roasted 'Purple Karma' naked barley from Oregon is now available in a tea blend from The Tao of Tea here!

Lesson Plans for Teachers on Plant Breeding and Barley

Barley and Beasts: An Introduction to Inherited Traits. 3rd-5th grade. 50 minutes. Oregon Agriculture in the Classroom Foundation.
Colors of Barley: An Introduction to Selective Breeding. 6th-8th grade. 60 minutes. Oregon Agriculture in the Classroom Foundation.

Journal Articles

Baker, B.P., B. Meints, P. Hayes. 2020. Organic and Naked (Hull-less) Barley: Practices, Production Costs and Benefits. eOrganic article. Available at https://eorganic.org/node/34371
Baker, B.P., B. Meints, P. Hayes. 2020. Organic barley producers' desired qualities for crop improvement. Organic Agriculture. 2020. Available at https://doi.org/10.1007/s13165-020-00299-y
Bunting, J.S.; Ross, A.S.; Meints, B.M.; Hayes, P.M.; Kunze, K.; Sorrells, M.E. Effect of Genotype and Environment on Food-Related Traits of Organic Winter Naked Barleys. Foods 2022, 11, 17, 2642. https://doi.org/10.3390/foods11172642
Chutimanitsakun, Y, A. Cuesta-Marcos, S. Chao, A. Corey, T. Filichkin, S. Fisk, M. Kolding, B. Meints, Y. Ong, J., I. Rey, A.S. Ross, and P.M. Hayes. 2013. Application of marker assisted selection and genome wide association scanning to the development of winter food barley germplasm resources. Plant Breeding. 132:563-570. Abstract available at https://doi.org/10.1111/pbr.12086
Lau, R. M. Cluskey, E. Howes, P. Hayes, and A. Ross. 2016. Sensory acceptance and satiation potential of barley flakes as a breakfast cereal replacement for oatmeal. Cereal Foods World. 61: 204-210. Abstract available at https://www.cerealsgrains.org/publications/plexus/cfw/pastissues/2016/abstracts/CFW-61-5-0204.html
Massman, C., Meints, B., Hernandez, J., Kunze, K., Hayes, P. M., Sorrells, M. E., Smith, K. P., Dawson, J. C., & Gutierrez, L. 2021. Genetic characterization of agronomic traits and grain threshability for organic naked barley in the northern United States. Crop Science, 1– 14. https://doi.org/10.1002/csc2.20686
Meints, B., A. Cuesta-Marcos, A. Ross, S. Fisk, T. Kongraksawech, J.M. Marshall, K. Murphy, and P.M. Hayes. 2015. Developing winter food barley for the Pacific Northwest of the U.S. Crop Sci. 55: 1563-1573. Abstract available at https://doi.org/10.2135/cropsci2014.10.0710
Meints B, A. Cuesta-Marcos, S. Fisk, A. Ross, P.M. Hayes. 2015. Food barley quality and germplasm utilization. In: Exploration and Utilization of Barley Genetic Germplasm. G.P. Zhang (ed.). Jones Wiley press and Zhejiang University press. Available at https://www.sciencedirect.com/book/9780128029220/exploration-identification-and-utilization-of-barley-germplasm
Meints, B. and P. Hayes. 2019. Breeding Naked Barley for Food, Feed and Malt. Plant Breeding Reviews Volume 43. Wiley. Abstract available at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9781119616801.ch4
Meints, B., Vallejos, C. and Hayes P. 2021. Multi-use naked barley: A new frontier. Journal of Cereal Science. Volume 102, November 2021, 103370. Available at https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0733521021002113?via%3Dihub

Grains Week 2021 Final Report

Grains Week 2021 Final Report. Find all the recordings and program at https://eorganic.org/node/34576. See below for the presentations on naked barley.

Webinars, Videos and Presentations

Malting and Brewing with Organic Naked Barley webinar by Brigid Meints. May 16, 2024.

Northern Brewer TV: Naked Barley Brewing Experiment with the University of Minnesota Barley Breeding Program

Food Functionality of Naked Barley Webinar by Jordyn Bunting, Research Associate, Oregon State University Food Innovation Center

Presentation about Multi-use Naked Barley at the Organic Research Forum at the Organicology Conference. February, 2019. This short presentation (18 minutes) is a great introduction to the project.