We grOW this beer.
which isn’t done much anymore.
Both commodity agriculture and the beverage industry have scaled up so much that the distance between farming and beer ‘manufacturing' has grown ever bigger. We wanted to bring it back in — soil sustained, land-based, handled by a few sets of hands— beer at village-scale.
Chimacum is our village...Drive down through Center Valley and you travel from the ‘corner store’ to our organic grain fields in a mile and half, and from there it’s another mile to our home farm and the Grainery maltroom and barn brewery. The whole operation is viewable on that 3.5 mile journey. And if you live near by, you’ll see Keith passing by on the tractor in spring, then rolling back and forth on the combine in late summer, then loading the truck in the autumn to bring the grains to Sam, who will spend the rest of the year getting them malted and brewed.
And the outcome of this seasonal series of agricultural acts?
We get to drink our fields!
And to share this Grainery beer with you, knowing where it came from, who made it and how.
Grainery maltster and brewer Sam Dressler grew up in these parts and has been an avid brewer for decades, honing his love of beer at woodsy, logging-road campfire keggers. Sam’s glad to be malting and brewing for a living, and carrying these locally grown grains through the process from the field to the maltroom to the tanks to you!
Beer share subscriptions coming soon!
Interested in kegs for your establishment?
Email the brewer at: beer@chimacumgrain.com
We plant.
We harvest.
We malt.
We mash.
We brew.
We bottle.
Why Beer Here?
Beer goes way way back. Ancient cultures around the world gathered and fermented grains and praised the god/desses who made the land fruitful and the beer nourishing. Mesopotamians left evidence of their beermaking back in the 5th millennium before the common era and archeology shows that similarly beery traditions arose around the world — so much so that some folks believe that the convergence of beer making and bread baking were the formative ’technologies’ of human civilizations.
For us at the Grainery, beer is one more wonderful way to share the goodness that grows from the green and gold fields of Chimacum. It’s nothing less than magical to stand in a sunbathed barley field in summer and realize that the land is drinkable!
This is a micro-farm-brewery operation, with the intention of giving people on the Peninsula and around Puget Sound an opportunity to taste fine craft beers produced from organically grown grains in an unusually integrated, farm-grounded brewing model.
Beer share subscriptions coming soon!
Questions or comments?
Email the brewer at beer@chimacumgrain.com
