According to the customs statistics malting barley imports to the Russian Federation for the year 2012 totaled about 500.000 tons. Detailed information can be found on the BMBU website: http://barley-malt.ru/?p=3690&lang=en. Argentina was predictably the leading supplier. For example, in May Argentina delivered 71.000 tons of barley to Russia. The geography of deliveries is surprising: there […]

According to the statistics for 2012 near 123.000 t. of brewer’s malt have been imported to the Russian Federation (more details). What happened in the year of 2013? Has the volume of imported malt to Russia increased or reduced? And how are supplies of the Russian brewer’s malt developing at the export markets? In 2013 […]

The provision of the Federal law No 218 dd. 18.07.2011 entered into force from 01.01.2013 (more detailed information you can find on the website of our Union in the section “Legislation” http://barley-malt.ru/?p=2172. According to this document beer is an alcohol product containing ethyl alcohol formed during brewery fermentation. Beer is made of brewers’ malt, hops […]

In accordance with requests of foreign processing companies (malting and brewing production) from the EU countries on the possibility to procure Russian malting barley, we give the legal information below: regarding barley (including malting barley) produced on the territory of the Customs Union countries (Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan)