how many grams in a tablespoon of barley?

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• How many grams in a tablespoon of barley?
  About 13.4 g of raw pearl or hulled barley per level tablespoon. That's a useful number when a bread recipe calls for a couple of tablespoons of cracked or whole barley as a topping or mix-in — two tablespoons gives you roughly 27 g, enough to scatter across a boule's surface or fold into a 500 g flour dough without throwing off hydration.
• How much barley do I add per tablespoon to homemade beer or grain blends?
  Homebrew specialty grain charts often spec malted barley by the gram, and 13.4 g per tablespoon lets you scale small test batches without breaking out a scale. For a one-gallon partial-mash, a tablespoon of crushed barley malt contributes a noticeable color and body shift. For multigrain flour blends, two tablespoons of barley flour per cup of wheat flour is a typical starting ratio.
• Can I measure barley flour by the tablespoon the same way?
  No — barley flour is much lighter than the whole grain. A tablespoon of barley flour weighs around 7-8 g because the milled flour traps air and sits loosely in the spoon, while whole kernels pack tight at 13.4 g. If a recipe specifies barley flour, weigh it; substituting tablespoon-for-tablespoon between flour and grain will leave you nearly half short.

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