Lagunitas De-Commodified Barley Production–Updates
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Published: March 5, 2012
| Updated: July 4, 2025
The twitter feed below may be hard to follow in reverse, but Lagunitas Brewing held a meeting today to start direct purchase of barley to de-commodify the grain purchasing prices. Lagunitas followed Anchor Brewing’s lead and did a similar direct-buy with hops previously, but this is fairly new territory with grains. This fair-price fair-trade policy will benefit both the brewery AND farmer and I suspect we’ll see more and more of this arrangement in the future. 
And some updates again from Twitter today (3/6/2012): 
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