OXBRIDGE is a high yielding spring malting variety with short, stiff straw and good all-round disease resistance. Oxbridge has a high specific weight and produces a very low level of screenings.
Commercial experience suggests that Oxbridge accumulates grain nitrogen at a low level – like Optic – and has particular malting characteristics which will make it highly suitable for the malt distilling industry, including full approval by the Institute of Brewing and Distilling (IBD) for malt distilling.
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Oxbridge produces grain with the best combination of specific weight and low screenings of any malting variety currently on the HGCA Recommended List.
Oxbridge has a good combination of resistance to mildew and Rhynchosporium, the two barley diseases that can cause major yield losses. In Scottish trials Oxbridge has shown a good level of resistance to abiotic leaf spotting, with associated green leaf area retention, and moderately good resistance to Ramularia.
Oxbridge has particular malting characteristics that render it highly suitable for the Scottish malt distilling industry, including a very high Hot Water Extract (HWE). It accumulates nitrogen at a similar rate to Optic. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Data from the HGCA Recommended Lists database, full data at www.hgca.com
On the 1-9 scales, high figures indicate that the variety shows the character to a high degree.
