It’s looking like Covid days in the taproom with boxes of orders filling tables! We’re down to “Wish I Could Turn You Back into a Stranger” and the last few cases of “Zzzlumber.” All other bottles and cans are now sold out.
Just for clarification. The taproom will NOT be open for in person sales on Friday and Saturday. We will be open the noted hours for Oakville order pickup only. We have no remaining merch or other beer available.
Grab your Zzzlumber or Stranger online now!
Oakville close out sale!
We still have a number of Oakville bottles and cans that we’d love to find homes.
This week we will run a 50% off online sale for these 8 beauties. Pickup for ALL orders will be on:
• Friday 5/8 from 4-7pm
• Saturday 5/9 from 11am-2pm
The taproom won’t be open outside of those hours.
Orders need to be placed by end of day Friday.
Cans must be purchased as a 4 pack.
Find the link to the store in our bio.
STOCK UP NOW!!
Words can’t express what proc means to me. Proc was family for us. It was a home. It was more than a place that we would just gather on Wednesday nights. It was an escape from the common, and the mundane. It was a place where we could share our passion and truly feel welcomed. I will greatly miss proc and the procfam. Thank you for years of truly memorable nights and days that we will all never forget. #procforever
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After the last two days of lines out the door for basically 10 hours straight, we’re devastated to announce that TODAY, Sunday 5/3, is going to be our last day open.
We really thought we would be able to be open for a couple weeks but the love and support has been overwhelming and you’re clearing us out quicker than ever imagined.
We will be opening at noon. We ask that you be patient with our staff as beers sell out or kegs kick and our menus aren’t updated immediately.
We are low on cans. There are no IPAs left to go but we do have some on draft still. We have a number of Oakville bottles left so stock up!
Remaining merch is on the shelves. Please don’t ask if we have anything else or if you can buy something from behind the bar. We’re also selling the original metal beer name signs we used when we first opened in Warwick. Ask a server for more info.
The @villain_crew will be in the lot and @rockettruck and @abcd_brothers_kitchen will be feeding you.
Thank you for everything.
Let’s do this one last time!!!
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It’s almost impossible to capture what Proc means to me. What started as a 2 day a week bar-back job on Fridays and Saturdays to satisfy my parents demands to “get a job” and “get out of the house,” quickly turned into something special. PROC was never just a job; it’s a family, a home, and honestly one of the most fun and rewarding adventures I could’ve asked for. We grew together, learned together, cried together, laughed together, and survived the chaos. Some of my proudest moments and favorite memories live within the walls of PROC.
The brewery might be closed. The beer might have runout, but the memories will live forever.
So here is one last reel. My love letter to PROC and to all the great people who made it happen.
Love always,
VG
For one last time:
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Yesterday, @proclamationale announced it is closing its doors. When I read the news this morning, I went back to something I wrote on Dave’s birthday, just a few weeks after he passed away in December 2020. Five years later, it still says everything I need to say. This one’s for Dave, for Lori, for Harper, the Proc team, past and present and for everyone who ever walked into Proc and felt something.
I first learned about Proc back in 2014 through my good friend Kris Waters, a local RI’er who was always telling me about his local brewery and sending me some of their beers.
I first met Dave back in 2015 at @beeradvocate Extreme Beer Festival. I was walking around trying as many beers as I could when I passed by the Proc booth and started talking to him. He was puzzled about how much I knew about his brewery, being from NYC and all. At the end of the festival I told the Alström brothers about three breweries that blew my mind, Proc was one of them.
Since that day, I became friends with Dave and we stayed in touch through social media and text messages. A year later he and Lori hired me to take pictures at the original location in West Kingstown, RI. It was my first paid gig at a brewery and for that I will be forever grateful.
I was fortunate enough to see how much Proc grew, to see Dave translate his vision alongside his rocks, Lori and Harper. I would always joke with him about his nonchalant demeanor, his laid back personality, outlandish ideas, embracing being a goofball yet serious and professional when he needed to be.
I am so glad to have met you mate, you are one of those people that leaves a mark and I am a better person because of you. I will miss seeing you at festivals, visiting you in the Kingdom of Warwick, but most of all I will miss our random late night phone calls where we would talk about everything and nothing, life, dreams, vent out.
Lori, thank you for your strength and keeping the dream alive for so long. I am here if you ever need anything.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
Wow. Wow. Wow.
Thank you so much for the incredible outpouring of love and support yesterday, both on social media and in person. Y’all are blowing us right out of inventory, so while I was hoping to be able to stay open for a couple of weeks, I don’t think that will be possible at this rate. If you want to ensure you get to enjoy a pour or maybe some take home beer, we highly suggest you get here this weekend. We will give updates after tomorrow if we have anything left to open at all next week.
We’re also opening up the option to bring in growlers to be filled. We do not have any available to fill so you must bring in your own. All beers will be $14 for a 32oz growler fill and $25 for a 64oz growler fill. Growlers must be clean (as Dave used to say, we don’t want to clean your schwaggy growlers) and you must have your own cap.
Open 12-10pm with @matildari feeding you from 2-8pm (or sell out)
Let’s keep the celebration going!!!
The first pic I can find from my time at Proc, most likely the first night the sign was working.
I was driving all the way from Cape Cod each day to help with the build out and then move a carload of stuff into the apt back then. I spent my first week on a scissor lift painting that big green wall behind the bar.
I spent years hiding in the back and doing what I could to keep things moving. Working the occasional event, but hiding from cameras almost the whole time. But I have so many stories and memories.
I would not be who I am today without my time here and being a part of the procfam. Proc gave me the space to become visible to myself and others when I came out as trans in 2021. I could not have done it without everyone's support there.
To our friends at Proclamation Ale Company, and to the entire Proc Fam, we’re holding you close right now.
It’s hard to put into words what this means for such a small, tightly woven beer community. Proclamation wasn’t just an early player. It was a place that showed people what Rhode Island beer could be, and what it could feel like.
Back when this whole thing was still taking shape, Dave and Matt were figuring things out side by side, just a few miles apart. Long nights, both up brewing while most of the world slept, phones lighting up with texts because they knew the other one was still up too. Different buildings, same hours, same belief that something special could be built here. That kind of shared beginning sticks with you.
Before a lot of what we know today existed, Proc was already building something bigger than beer. A culture of curiosity. Of quality without ego. Taprooms that felt like living rooms, where everyone was welcome.
Beyond the brewery, Dave helped change the landscape. His commitment to improving Rhode Island’s beer laws opened doors for all of us. The ability to walk out of a brewery with more beer in hand didn’t happen by accident. Dave fought for that. Every brewery in this state benefits from that work.
Dave’s vision didn’t just build a brewery. It helped shape a community. And Lori’s strength in carrying that vision forward, through circumstances most of us can’t begin to understand, is something that deserves more than words. It deserves recognition, respect, and a whole lot of gratitude.
This is more than a closing. It’s the end of a chapter that helped write the rest of our stories.
To everyone at Proc, past and present, thank you. For the beer, and for the standard you set.
To the Proc regulars, the lifers, we see you. That community doesn’t disappear. It carries on.
Our doors are open to you. Always.
If you can, go raise a glass at Proclamation. Be part of that send-off.
Rhode Island beer is better because of Proclamation Ale.
With love and respect,
Tilted Barn Brewery 🍻
With the heaviest of hearts, we are announcing something we hoped we’d never have to:
Proc will be closing its doors.
From the outside, it may have looked like we were happily thriving, but behind closed doors we have been silently battling a number of hardships. Along with losing our founder—and my husband—suddenly in December 2020, we spent the past six years defending ourselves against a lawsuit from a minority partner. This costly legal battle limited our financial options while draining resources that could have been reinvested into the business—resources that might have helped us better withstand lingering post-COVID challenges and industry shifts driven by changes in the economy, as well as evolving drinking and social habits.
Every single day, the entire Proclamation team worked incredibly hard to keep pushing forward, searching for clearer paths. But eventually, there comes a time when you have to accept there are no more paths. This is that time.
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Thank you for showing up on day one, and for continuing to show up for 12 years. I never imagined this would have taken on the life it did when Dave first came to me with this dream.
Until we close our taproom for good, we ask that you come by one more time (or a few more) and help give Proc—and Dave—a proper send-off. We’ll be open during normal hours until we run out of inventory or simply can’t go on any longer… whichever comes first. Please stay tuned for updates as they come.
Thank you for everything,
Lori
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Today we’re open 12-10pm with @cousinsmainelobster slinging from 12-8pm.
We will be playing Fight Club on the big screen at 7:30pm. See your faces soon!
