Australian Barleys: Identification of Varieties, Grain Defects and Foreign Seeds

This handbook provides a basis for checking the range of quality factors that can be judged by on-the-spot examination. When barley is being received at the silo or the malt-house, it is impractical and unnecessary to use the range of precise laboratory methods devised for quality testing, although these can be used to decide about border-line samples or to resolve disputes.

Instead, an approximate indication of many quality factors can be obtained by visual examination to determine: