Blue Ox Malthouse just secured Best of Show and two Double Gold medals at the 2025 Malt Cup Awards. Let's learn how.

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It plans to introduce the traditional production method of floor malting at both distilleries for some of its products, where workers will spread out barley, the main ingredient for making whisky ...

Founded in 2013 by Joel Alex, Blue Ox is Maine's first malting operation. It uses a centuries-old floor-malting method “This recognition is validation that we can craft world-class ingredients ...

Luckily, the distillery was put to another whisky-related use: floor malting barley. There're only a handful of distilleries that floor malt their own barley, because, like the name implies ...

It is the only distillery to grow its own barley from the region’s fertile soil, employ both coppersmiths and coopers and use the floor malting process. The latter is a longstanding tradition of ...