Bard's 2010 Malt Analysis: The Earliest Sheet in the Archive
CSV, full precision: bards-2010-malt-analysis.csv · Archive DOI: pending · Cite: Malt analysis worksheet: Bard's malted sorghum, May 21, 2010. Bard's internal production record. Republished by Gluten Free Brewer, 2026. https://glutenfreebrewer.com/research/production-data/bards-2010-malt-analysis · Full terms and version history under Reuse.
This is a working production document, not a laboratory certificate — one spreadsheet with an in-house test block and a block headed "RND RESULTS" dated May 21, 2010 for "BARD'S MALTED SORGHUM." Working documents skip the labels a certificate carries, so this page follows a strict rule: every value is published exactly as recorded, units are marked "unlabeled" where the sheet gave none, and anything interpretive is stated as interpretation, clearly separated from the data.
The dataset
In-house test block:
| Measure (as labeled) | Value |
|---|---|
| Bushel weight | 51 |
| Moisture | 6.4 |
| Protien (sic) | 10.8 |
| Soluble Protien-day1 (sic) | 1.7 |
| Soluble Protien-day2 (sic) | 2.2 |
| S/T | 0.20 |
| Alpha Amylase | 18 · 9.5 (two adjacent columns) |
| DP | 13.3 · 0 (two adjacent columns) |
| Assortment 7/64 · 6/64 · 5/64 · thru | 15.2 · 51.4 · 23.6 · 9.8 |
| Grind analysis 14 · 30 · 60 · pan | 44.4 · 35.6 · 8 · 12 |
"RND RESULTS" block (dated 5/21/2010):
| Measure (as labeled) | Value |
|---|---|
| MOIST | 6 |
| FRIABILTY (sic) | 41.4 |
| FG as is | 81% |
| ALPHA | 9.5 |
| DP | 0 |
| COLOR | 2.44 |
| TOTAL PROTEIN | 7.59 |
| SOL PROTEIN | 1.32 |
| S/T | 17.4 |
| DON | 0.1 |
| CLARITY | SL HAZY |
| FILTRATION | NORMAL |
| AROMA/FLAVOR | SOMEWHAT FLOURY, STARCHY, LIGHT, THIN |
Interpretation notes — stated as interpretation, not data
- The duplicated enzyme columns: the in-house block's second alpha/DP values (9.5 and 0) match the RND block exactly. The most natural reading is that the RND numbers were copied beside the in-house ones for comparison — but the sheet doesn't say so, so that reading is ours, not the record's.
- The two S/T entries: 0.20 in-house against 17.4 in the RND block. The in-house day-2 soluble protein over total protein (2.2 / 10.8) is 0.204 — consistent with the in-house S/T being recorded as a ratio where the RND block used percent. Again: consistent with, not proven by, the sheet.
- DON 0.1 carries no unit. Deoxynivalenol is conventionally reported in ppm (mg/kg), and 0.1 ppm would sit far below every regulatory advisory level — but the sheet does not state the unit, so the number is published unitless and the convention is noted, not assumed.
- Enzymes were already the story in 2010. The RND block's DP of 0 and alpha of 9.5 are the same fact the 2019 Hartwick panel measured as below-quantification nine years later — the enzyme deficit this site's doctrine is built on was on the brewery's own worksheets from the start.
- The sensory line is a period record — "somewhat floury, starchy, light, thin" is a rare written sensory observation on early production sorghum malt, preserved verbatim.
- What we do not know: which lot or cultivar this malt was, who produced the RND results, and the basis for several unlabeled values. Those blanks stay blank; a recovered answer would be logged as a correction, never silently filled.
Record
First published 2026-08-24 as v1.0. Corrections to date: none. This dataset is a frozen record — it changes only for corrections, and every correction is logged in this section with its date and what changed.
Where else this data lives: nowhere else public that we know of.
Reuse: download, cite, tell us
→ Download as CSV — every cell as recorded, with per-row unit-labeling status and notes.
Malt analysis worksheet: Bard's malted sorghum, May 21, 2010. Bard's internal production record. Republished by Gluten Free Brewer, 2026. https://glutenfreebrewer.com/research/production-data/bards-2010-malt-analysis
Zenodo archiving for this dataset is pending; this page will state its DOI when the deposit completes, per the research library's archive practice.
Related
- Hartwick 2019 Malt Analysis — the same enzyme facts, measured formally nine years later
- Production QA Log 2014–2017 — the production records that pick up four years after this sheet
- What Makes Good Malting Sorghum — where DON and acceptance testing fit
Source and Validation Notes
Transcribed cell-for-cell from the original workbook recovered in the Bard's archive's legacy QA records (single populated sheet; two remaining sheets empty). Original spellings ("Protien," "FRIABILTY") are preserved and marked. The document is a Bard's internal record and is Bard's to publish; the source of the "RND RESULTS" block is not identified on the sheet and is therefore not attributed to any laboratory.