barley: underappreciated grain

yah one of the last things to survive during my slow descent into meat elimination was barley and sweet potatoes cooked in the same pot as the bacon.

is this the same thing as pearl barley? if so, i have some of this in the cupboard, and like it

i'm talkin pearl barley yeah

but not limited to that either

The malting industry, so called because the barley is first converted to malt, is heavily dependent on barley for the production of beer and distilled alcohol. Over 90,000 tonnes of barley or almost 10% of the total Irish crop is used each year in the production of Guinness stout. In addition, Irish Distillers Ltd use a combination of malted and unmalted barley in their production process to produce 380 litres of pure alcohol per tonne of barley