Admiral Maltings Atlas

Admiral Maltings Atlas is a throwback to a bygone era of malting and brewing in Northern California. Atlas was introduced to California by the Spanish (it is named after the Atlas Mountains in Morocco). From the 1860s until WWII, Atlas was grown throughout the Sacramento Valley and even exported to England. It was the landrace variety that UC Davis chose as the foundation seed for the University's first malting barley varieties. In the early twentieth century, they released a number of Atlas varieties. Admiral malts are all made from grain grown on family farms in California in a sustainable manner. Atlas barley for this malt was grown on the Work Ranch in San Miguel, California.