This past week, we proudly participated in the Craft Maltsters Guild first annual Craft Malt Week. Here at Lantern, we feel strongly that brewing with craft malt is the key to brewing beer that maintains its integrity to craft ideals, which is at its essence is beer brewed for the needs of people, not the need for profit. We wanted to combine our thoughts from this week here and offer one brewery’s perspective on what Craft Malt means in the larger context.
Though the attention given to other ingredients sometimes overshadows malt’s role, malt is and always will be the most important ingredient in beer. Learning where the malt comes from tells you almost everything you need to know about where the beer comes from. Great tasting beer starts with great tasting malt, but if that malt lacks integrity, the resulting beer will lack integrity as well.
Craft malt is the key to bringing integrity back to craft brewing, not only restoring honesty in claims to the craft ideal but also allowing for local character and flavor to be brought to the glass. The craft brewing industry is on the brink of becoming irrelevant, producing more and more commodified and homogenized “craft” beer brewed with no character, no sense of place, no meaning, and no purpose. Craft malt can set craft brewing on a better path.
Read MoreLantern Brewing is proud to partner with Johnson & Gunstone Shellfish!
We are their North Seattle pick-up location for their Community Supported Shellfish (CSS) Program, a subscription of fresh oysters and clams delivered fresh from J&G farm.
To join, browse the online store and purchase the CSS share that best meets your household needs. CSS Members receive an additional 10% in store credits for joining to use on shellfish and merchandise. Once you join, you will then be able to use your credits throughout the season to order exactly what you want each delivery.
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We are excited to announce that with the sponsorship of Skagit Valley Malting, Lantern Brewing has been recognized by the Craft Maltsters Guild as a Certified Craft Malt Brewery.
From our inception we have focused on creating unique beer from the best local ingredients, and that mission has always put malt front and center. Being a Certified Craft Malt Brewery is about furthering our commitment to buying local, sustainable ingredients. It’s about ensuring our beer, though made to honor the traditions of Belgian and French styles, is connected to the diverse cultures of Cascadia.