LINC Malt

Pils pays the bills.

Fresh batches of Francin, Baronesse, Genie and Lyon Pilsner malts jamming up the docket just like we like it.

Tooling around SoCal for a week…the centerpiece being a solid brewday and some terrific hospitality (and lager) from the folks at .

What went into the tank (on its journey to becoming a big-boy double westie) started with a vision by of a series of fundraiser collabs, brewed up and down the coast.

Friendships going way back to childhood, as well as new ones (we were introduced to Old Standby just this winter) came together for this brew, and credit is due to Ryan for seeing the potential in that. Props to and for donating raw materials, and especially to our homies and partners at for kicking in on the Genie malt used.

We’re stoked to see how this beer comes out, and to help support the partner nonprofit, .

Friends of friends. We’re coming up on six years of making malt…and it feels clear the party is just getting started. These past months, we’ve had our eye on reconnecting with maltsters dear (and far…far away from Spokane). It has been a total treat.

That more friends, new and old, would come out of the woodwork in the process shouldn’t have been a surprise. Yesterday, packaged our multi-malthouse, multi-brewery collab with colorful Coloradans , and western WA wonders, .

But, real talk: the actual magic was a month ago when a brewday morphed into a rolling tour of some of Seattle’s best, biggest, smallest, caskiest, lageriest, and hospitality-est beer makers. It was a treat. For certain Spokanites and Denverites, it ended with a crab feast. It felt like a sign of good things to come. Call us sentimental, but this friends of friends biz is where it’s at.