{"id":5236,"date":"2023-04-03T14:22:43","date_gmt":"2023-04-03T18:22:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/riverbendmalt.com\/?p=5236"},"modified":"2023-04-03T14:22:43","modified_gmt":"2023-04-03T18:22:43","slug":"modern-farmer-how-distilling-almost-killed-then-revived-one-of-americas-heritage-crops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riverbendmalt.com\/modern-farmer-how-distilling-almost-killed-then-revived-one-of-americas-heritage-crops\/","title":{"rendered":"Modern Farmer: How Distilling Almost Killed\u2014Then Revived\u2014One Of America\u2019s Heritage Crops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5237 size-featured_large\" src=\"https:\/\/riverbendmalt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Bloody-Butcher06-scaled-e1680545685137-1500x630.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"630\" \/>Bloody Butcher Corn has a rich story that&#8217;s woven into the history of American distilling. Some recent Modern Farmer coverage of this heritage crop reveals its evolution from moonshine to near extinction to abundant use in craft distilleries.<\/p>\n<p>We were thrilled to weigh in, and we&#8217;re excited to provide <a href=\"https:\/\/riverbendmalt.com\/malt\/bloody-butcher-corn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bloody Butcher Corn<\/a> malt to many craft distillers across the Southeast region.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the article <a href=\"https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/2023\/03\/how-distilling-almost-killed-then-revived-one-of-americas-heritage-crops\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/riverbendmalt.com\/contact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">contact us<\/a> if you&#8217;d like to purchase Bloody Butcher for your next recipe.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Along the eastern seaboard, there\u2019s a growing network of folks interested in reanimating the dead\u2014or, at least, the nearly dead. \u201cThere\u2019s definitely a robust network on the eastern seaboard of people in brewing, distilling, academics and malting that are building on a lot of these storylines and getting some of these varieties back into the public\u2019s hands,\u201d says Brent Manning, certified cicerone and co-founder of Asheville, NC-based Riverbend Malt House.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-5237 size-featured_large\" src=\"https:\/\/riverbendmalt.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/Bloody-Butcher06-scaled-e1680545685137-1500x630.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"630\" \/>Bloody Butcher Corn has a rich story that&#8217;s woven into the history of American distilling. Some recent Modern Farmer coverage of this heritage crop reveals its evolution from moonshine to near extinction to abundant use in craft distilleries.<\/p>\n<p>We were thrilled to weigh in, and we&#8217;re excited to provide <a href=\"https:\/\/riverbendmalt.com\/malt\/bloody-butcher-corn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bloody Butcher Corn<\/a> malt to many craft distillers across the Southeast region.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the article <a href=\"https:\/\/modernfarmer.com\/2023\/03\/how-distilling-almost-killed-then-revived-one-of-americas-heritage-crops\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>,<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/riverbendmalt.com\/modern-farmer-how-distilling-almost-killed-then-revived-one-of-americas-heritage-crops\/\">&nbsp;&raquo;&nbsp;Read more about: Modern Farmer: How Distilling Almost Killed\u2014Then Revived\u2014One Of America\u2019s Heritage Crops &nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":5237,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5236","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverbendmalt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverbendmalt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverbendmalt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverbendmalt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverbendmalt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/riverbendmalt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverbendmalt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/riverbendmalt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverbendmalt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/riverbendmalt.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}