Community + Conservation + Craft Ingredients

Starting with malt, we’re on a mission to build regional ingredient supply chains that support family farms, rural communities, and landscape-scale conservation. Our radical approach to transparency invites food & beverage fans to travel upstream from the products they love.

We help brewers, distillers, and bakers bring the farm to their fans through premium malt.

Each of our partnering farms employs meaningful conservation practices that help restore our region's landscapes and waterways. Salmon-Safe & Organic certifications, habitat enhancement, dryland farming practices, irrigation efficiency, and low water crop rotations are some of the practices we encourage.

Our goal is always to meet family farmers where they are, uncover opportunities for more sustainable practices, and provide premium crop contracts to incentivize change. Looking forward, we’re excited to extend our offerings to include certified organic and perennial grains. We’ll also be doubling down on our commitments to the rural communities where we do business.

Products #MadeWithMainstem help protect the places we love, one field & stream at a time.

Mainstem has the fortune and lofty challenge of strengthening many complex relationships across a diversity of stakeholders.

We take that dynamic seriously, meeting the highest standards for social and environmental impact.

 
 

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