Beer behind this malt
—24 × 12 oz cases / year at your shareMALTING MARKET / UNITED STATES
Your territory.
Your malting opportunity.
Turn a beer market into a malt requirement. Pick the states, set the share you can supply, and see what it asks of the grain, the malthouse and the delivery schedule.
Starts with the whole US at 100% supplied share. Your scenario stays in this tab until saved.
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Build your supply territory
Click states to include or remove them.
Region presets
Choose states by name 50 states + DC
This map follows the beer audience. It estimates where demand is associated with consumers—not where breweries, malthouses or qualifying grain are located. State weights come from the existing beer-market calculator, using 2019 division research and population.
Finished malt per operating week
—Raw-grain planning equivalent
—US bushels / year · low–high loss rangeShare of the 2025 US crop
—437 million bushels · scale comparison only03
Can the malthouse supply it?
Enter finished, saleable malt capacity. The default 7 t/week is the historical 2018 maltster benchmark, not current supplier availability.
Available share allows for other contracts, downtime within operating weeks and losses not already included in the saleable-output rating. Avoid counting the same allowance twice.
Modeled demand / available output—
Available output / year—
Annual capacity balance—
Nameplate needed / week—
Territory share capacity could serve—
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Plan the grain behind it
The page’s 8–19% malting-loss range comes from sixteen cultivars in one lab study. Replace it when your own yield is known.
14% and 5% are editable example assumptions, not measurements of your grain or malt.
Annual raw-grain requirement—
Bushel equivalents use 56 lb/bu, the page’s purchasing baseline. A small share of the national crop does not establish suitable cultivar, lot quality or local availability.
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FINISHED-MALT HANDLINGMake the volume tangible
Super-sacks
—Bulk-shipment equivalents
—Production batches
—Sacks use 2,000 lb; shipment equivalents use the historical brewery’s 45,000 lb maximum intake. These are planning equivalents, not freight quotes or scheduled loads. The 5 t finished-output batch is an editable scenario, not a specification from the historical equipment quote. Batch count does not design the steeping, germination or kiln cycle.
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OPTIONALPrice only what you can quote
The article sizes pounds. Enter your own malt selling price to see gross malt sales at this demand level.
GROSS MALT SALES AT MODELED DEMANDNo quote entered
Not beer retail value, profit or guaranteed sales.
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Your territory, state by state
Select a state on the map or by name to start a territory.
| State / district | Target cases / year | Malt / year · lb | Malt / week · metric t | Grain / year · bushels |
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Click a state name for its assumptions and calculation. State numbers are consumer-demand allocations, not brewery purchasing records. Display rounding may keep rows from summing exactly.
Take the scenario into a real conversation.
Keep the territory, inputs, capacity gap and source assumptions together.
THE MATH, IN THE OPEN
Beer demand becomes malt demand.
It doesn’t become an order.
2019 audience inputs. Bard’s 2018–2020 production figures. Your territory, supplied share, process assumptions and capacity.
Same geography as the beer-market calculator
The national health audience is 15.8 million × (2,094,000 ÷ 2,748,000). Division health weights sum to 11.6 million and are reconciled proportionally to that national total. Each division is allocated to its states by their share of July 1, 2019 population (Census Vintage 2019), including DC, Alaska and Hawaii.
State health audience × 38% craft-or-cider share × 12 servings/month × 12 months ÷ 24 = annual cases at full penetration. Apply your supplied share once. No population growth or spouse/partner multiplier is added. Total population is an allocation proxy for the adult audience, not a state-specific consumer survey.
Malt, dry-matter loss and bushels
Annual sorghum malt = annual cases at your share × entered pounds of sorghum malt per case. The page’s 4 lb figure is for Bard’s light golden, all-sorghum beer; 3.6 and 4.5 lb are other historical planning/recipe figures, not statistical confidence bounds.
Page approximation: grain = malt ÷ (1 − malting loss). Moisture-adjusted option: grain = malt × (1 − malt moisture) ÷ [(1 − loss) × (1 − grain moisture)]. All percentages become fractions. Loss is dry-matter loss; moisture is wet-basis moisture. Divide grain pounds by 56 for nominal US bushels.
The 8–19% loss range is from Beta, Rooney & Waniska (1995), across sixteen cultivars. It is not a measured yield for a particular malthouse. The 437 million bushels is the page’s 2025 US harvest figure; no state crop allocation is inferred.
Capacity, handling and optional sales
Weekly demand = annual finished malt ÷ operating weeks. Available annual output = nominal finished-malt tonnes/week × 2,204.62262185 lb/tonne × operating weeks × available share. Required weekly nameplate = weekly demand ÷ available share. At zero available share, that requirement is undefined.
Annual sacks and shipment equivalents are rounded up separately from their exact mass equivalents; one figure is not multiplied by another. Batch output is finished, saleable malt. No vessel count or batch cycle time is inferred. Optional gross malt sales = annual pounds × your quoted price per pound; this does not deduct costs or constrain demand to your line’s capacity.
Sources, scope and historical benchmarks
- How Big Is the US Gluten-Free Malt Market? — malt, grain, loss and handling assumptions.
- Existing beer-market calculator — identical state geometry, population and territory arithmetic.
- National beer-market estimate — audience assumptions.
- Beta 1995 — malting losses.
- Farmer-direct sourcing and Seed Standard 1 — turn volume into a grain specification.
- Finding a contract maltster — discuss actual capacity, minimum lots and timing.
- US Atlas / Census — map geometry inherited from the beer calculator.
Source snapshot: 29 September 2026. National results use the original calculator’s unrounded arithmetic (about 27.5 million cases); the article rounds this to 110 million pounds. The capacity benchmark uses exactly 7 metric tonnes/week; the page rounds it to 15,400 lb/week and 770,000 lb/year.
This is the sorghum-malt requirement implied by the site’s beer-market model. It does not measure the total market for every gluten-free grain, non-beer food uses, exports or present-day production capacity. Validate real accounts, qualifying grain, contamination controls, production yield, storage and freight before making a commitment.