Supporting local food systems matters, now more than ever. We make these rather straightforward reports as our promise to you: transparent, consistent support of farmers, foragers, and agricultural value-added business like North Carolina's three malt houses.

This is our commitment from a business-to-business perspective. So what can you do...especially right now in these uncertain times? You can support a local farm through the act of commerce. 

The Carolina Farm Stewardship Association has a Google map of area farms that allow direct, on-farm pickups. You can also support Black business and black farmers at the upcoming Black Farmers' Market on Sunday, June 14 from 1 - 4 p.m, held at the parking lot of the NC Mutual Life building -- the largest and oldest African-American life insurance company in the United States.

Support your local farm for sustenance. For you. For them. For the local economy. 

FULLSTEAM: MAY 2020 FARM REPORT

PIONEERING A SOUTHERN BEER ECONOMY

Since launching in 2010, Fullsteam has purchased nearly $550,000 in Southern-sourced ingredients -- primarily from North Carolina farms. May's Southern farm purchases -- 4.5 tons and over $8,000 in Southern ingredients -- consisted mostly of North Carolina grains for core beers and some specialty one-offs.

Fullsteam is a Certified Craft Malt Brewery, committed to sourcing 10 percent or more grains from a certified craft malt house. Learn more about this program at the Craft Maltsers Guild.

SINCE LAUNCHING IN 2010

$548,096 Southern-farmed ingredients, totaling
583,016 pounds (292 tons)

MAY 2020 DETAILS
In May 2020, Fullsteam brewed:

Spending $8,057 on 8,920 pounds of Southern-sourced:

  • Epiphany Foundation (2-Row)
  • Epiphany N.C. Triticale
  • Epiphany Wheat
  • Epiphany Braumalt 
  • Carolina Vienna Malt 
  • Carolina Gold Malt 
  • Riverbend Southern Select 
  • Riverbend Bloody Butcher Corn 
  • Local blueberries from our friends at Botanist and Barrel

NOTES

  1. Fullsteam defines "Southern" as the swath of land from Washington D.C. to Louisiana. That said, North Carolina farms, maltsters, and foragers account for the vast majority (>95%) of these Southern ingredients.
  2. For the purposes of this report, we only include grains farmed and malted in the South.
  3. To find each beer's percent local by weight, look for the "% local" designation on the beer label or its entry on our website.