Craft beer boom spurs demand for close-to-home barley malt
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GERMANTOWN, N.Y. (AP) — Dennis Nesel converts barley to malt the way it was done hundreds of years ago, spreading the water-soaked grain on his malt house floor and turning it with a shovel as it germinates to release the…