PROXIMITY NEWS

Craft breweries are responsible for a catalog of expenses to produce a top-quality brew that keeps customers coming back. Many expenses, including ingredients costs, equipment and maintenance, real estate, packaging, and distribution, are difficult to reduce. However, implementing a few efficient business tactics such as sourcing local ingredients or reducing… Read more

We are in the middle of our winter barley harvest in the Mid-Atlantic.  The spring barley is in the early stages of the growing season.  We thought it would be a good time to share our Mid-Year Malting Barley Market Report. Mid-Atlantic Region: The Mid-Atlantic malting barley planting season began… Read more

  Our love of beer goes back more than seven thousand years, and fermenting grains like barley is famously touted as an early sign of humanity’s agricultural beginnings. Supply chains historically have incentivized the production and output capacity of farms, not the practices utilized to produce these products.  American farmers… Read more

Welcome to Proximity Malt’s official rollout of our newest product line, ReGenMalt™. After years of learning, and engaging with our suppliers and customers, we’re excited to share this game-changing product with you. ReGenMalt™: Founded on sustainability, Proximity Malt is dedicated to fostering a resilient, environmentally conscious supply chain.  Our close… Read more

When examining sustainability, finding ways to enhance our practices and processes is crucial. We have often heard that you can’t improve what you don’t measure, but how do you measure sustainability in malt? Measuring Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions across the supply chain One approach to assessing sustainability involves measuring direct… Read more

Proximity Malt was built on the premise of building a secure, sustainable supply chain.  Dale West, our CEO, often states when talking about our commitment to improving the barley-to-brewer supply chain, “We knew that there was a better mousetrap.  The traditional malted barley supply chain- with touchpoints at ports, train… Read more

This year’s barley harvest is finally in the bin, with quality results looking good for our growing regions.  Read on to learn more about Colorado barley, Maryland and Delaware barley, and our new varieties, or click here to see a video summary by Dale West, CEO of Proximity Malt.  … Read more

Producing a full range of premium specialty malts—from base to black, and a wide selection of crystals, in between—is central to Proximity’s mission as a leader in domestically produced, sustainable malt. Along with sourcing sustainable grains locally, our commitment to a resilient supply chain for our customers began with an… Read more

Avalon Malting Barley – Maryland, USA Harvest: By any measure, this year’s Mid-Atlantic winter barley crop was a success. Proximity Malt expanded its winter barley program, increasing acres, varieties, and grower-partners across the Delmarva peninsula (Delaware, Maryland, and VA) and into the Carolinas. The region’s winter barley harvest is complete…. Read more

PART OF THE SUSTAINABILITY PUZZLE Proximity’s Mid-Atlantic wheat malt is made from soft winter wheat grown in the Delmarva Peninsula and thereby local to our Laurel, DE malthouse–it’s a sustainability powerhouse! It’s easy to see that sourcing grain locally drives miles out of our supply chain and thereby reduces our GHG… Read more