MAINSTEM MALT

WE DO MALT
DIFFERENTLY

CRAFT MALT FOR PEOPLE & PLANET

We’re on a mission to build innovative malt supply chains in support of family farms, rural communities, and landscape-scale conservation. We start with water and strive for comprehensive sustainability. Radical supply chain transparency invites you to travel upstream from your favorite craft beer & spirits.

MARKET-BASED
CONSERVATION

Support PNW family farms and landscapes. Trace the products you love back to their unique places of origin.

Ask for beer, spirits, and baked goods Made With Mainstem.

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Alyssa and I recently had the pleasure of touring two world-class river restoration projects in NE Oregon & SE Washington. Both were made possible by the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, open-minded landowners, a mix of con

Looking for some wholesome background noise? Check out this just-released episode on Jimmy Carbone's Beer Sessions Radio podcast! Jimmy and Phil have a nice chat about the general purpose goodness that is the @craftmalting movement, diving deeper int

Portland area friends! @loyallegionoregon is hosting a tap takeover tonight (Friday, 10/18, 5-7pm) for @oregonagtrust's 3rd annual Cheers to the Land fundraiser. Go support Beaver State farmland preservation while enjoying beer, cider, and kombucha m

Copperworks Distilling recently entertained interviews with some of the grain brains behind craft malt, on the importance and future of this movement. Our CEO @tributary_to was pleased to contribute alongside Brian Estes of LINC Malt and you can find

Craft beverage fans are pretty well steeped in fresh hop season these days, but with grain harvest all but wrapped up around the Northern Hemisphere and amazing beverages like whiskey that don't even use hops, it's also a perfect time of year to cele

Thanks for the spotlight, Union Bulletin! We've been having a blast building this future in collaboration with our rural economic development partners at Port of Columbia.⁠
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Phil here! This weekend, I had the unforgettable opportunity to kayak up to the bottom of Palouse Falls with this extraordinary group of people, all working to bring economic development and outdoor recreation opportunities to Dayton, Columbia County

REAL TALK. Isn't it super fun when breweries highlight their craft malt usage on cans, even when it's an IPA??⁠
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We obviously think it's fun! Not just because of our inherent bias, but because beer is mostly water and malt, and it means that particu

Curious about our plans for the new malt house in Dayton, Washington? Well, for starters, the facility is being designed around the same 4-vessel @kasparschulz malting system that the @rootshootmalting folks operate in Loveland, Colorado. You know, t

Status update on our little "Oregon Promise" barley seed increase project in Milton-Freewater! Dry-farmed with loving care by @htreafarms, on the breaks of the Walla Walla River, this stuff is looking mighty fine 😄🤌
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So there are these huge dinosaur fish who live in the Columbia River and they can live to be over 100 years old and Ferment made a fish-friendly beer to celebrate a really famous one named Herman and you should go drink the beer. That is all, thank y

A quick moment of appreciation for some of our great friends in Olympia! If you're ever in the area, please make sure to go support Sara, Nate, Aaron, and Co @3magbrewing/@drinkselfcare... Abe, Pat, and Co @ilkbeer/@ilklodge. These folks do so much b

BREAKING NEWS!!! Port of Columbia's Director Jennie Dickinson and I just secured 5 MILLION DOLLARS $$$ in infrastructure funding from the State of Washington 🥳🌾🌎️⁠
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This investment by the Community Economic Revitalization Board lays an incredible

Are you in Walla Walla this weekend for Spring Release? Do you enjoy tasty beer, too?? Right on!!! Pay a visit to @waterbuffalobrewery on Saturday at this year's first outdoor downtown farmers market and grab some of these beautiful Trident Tripels ?

Please enjoy this exceedingly pretty view of Oregon Promise spring barley going in above the North Fork Walla Walla River with our bonafide great friends at @htreafarms, on some of the finest dryland ground in Northeast Oregon.⁠
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Here's another beautiful Earth Day collaboration, courtesy of the Earth To Beer project and Ferment Brewing in Hood River, Oregon! JUST LOOK AT THESE FACES DOING GOOD AND MAKING BEER AND FEELING REALLY GREAT ABOUT IT. Thanks for all of the love, frie