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Creating Safer Spaces in Craft Beer, Part Six — Crafting Inclusive Events for Your Community
Part six of ten.
Imagine the last beer you drank. What did it taste like? Maybe it was a bitter West Coast IPA with bold, bright notes of citrus. ...
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The Whole Truth: How Lady Justice Brewing Balances the Scales of Beer
All rise.
In 2009, Lady Justice Brewing Co-Founders Betsy Lay, Jen Cuesta, and Kate Power served in the AmeriCorps VISTA program, living at the poverty level while ...
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Brand New Vine Street Brewing Brings Beer to Historic Jazz District
Hitting all the right notes.
When Vine Street Brewing Co. celebrated its grand opening on June 30th, it became Missouri’s first Black-owned brewery, bringing beer to Kansas City’s famous jazz ...
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Creating Safer Spaces in Craft Beer, Part Five — Start a Vocational Program
Part five of ten.
Three months ago, Women of the Vine & Spirits, a global organization for the alcoholic beverage industry, released a study in tandem with Deloitte called ...
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The Complete Beer Course Celebrates a Decade With Updated Edition
One of the best beer books.
If there’s one modern beer journalist to know, it’s Josh Bernstein. He’s pioneered the shift of niche beer writing toward a broader audience, and his ...
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Denizens Brewing: Fighting for Equality in Life, Law, and Liquid
One word: trailblazing.
Denizens Brewing Co. is a trailblazing brewery. Seriously. When wife-and-wife team Julie Veratti and Emily Bruno set out to start a brewery in Silver Spring, ...
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New Documentary Chronicles Black and Brown Brewery Owners ‘One Pint at a Time’
A first-of-its-kind film on Black and Brown brewery owners.
The sounds of a brewhouse—gears whirring, water boiling, steam hissing—are intersectional. Words pop up on the screen: “Each year, the craft beer industry generates tens ...
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Creating Safer Spaces in Craft Beer, Part Four — Hire Intentionally and Train Your Team
Part four of ten.
Have you ever applied for a job in the craft beer industry? If so, where did you look? Was there anything about the job description ...
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Ten Eyck: Seven Women, One Brewery, Countless Amazing Beers
Just read this incredible story.
Seven women—four Air Force veterans, two former rugby players (one a national team vet), and one law enforcement professional—start a brewery together. Sound like a ...
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How G. Qulture x Hop Culture Created a Queer Beer Garden
Revealing the true 'nature' of beer for everyone.
Imagine you could build your own brick-and-mortar shop. What would you fill it with? What would it look like? What would you hang on the ...
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Creating Safer Spaces in Beer, Part Three — Does Every Brewery Need a Code of Conduct?
Part three of ten.
At a beer festival last May, Necromancer Assistant Brewer Nina Santiago stood in line for the bathroom when an employee from a Grist Houst Craft ...
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Taking the Path Less Traveled: ‘Foraging’ Ahead with Bow & Arrow Brewing Co.
Wild, sour beers in the heart of the American Southwest.
A couple of years ago, Bow & Arrow Brewing Co. co-founders and life partners Shyla Sheppard and Missy Begay set out searching for the elusive ...
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Queer Beer Joins Forces with Meals On Us PDX to Fight Food Insecurity
Changing lives one meal at a time.
Four weeks ago, I opened up my inbox to find this email. “Hello! My Name is Marco Antonio Guzman. I am a Mexican queer male ...
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Creating Safer Spaces in Beer, Part Two — What Does a Safe Space Look Like?
Part two of ten.
In the opening part of our series [Creating Safer Spaces in Craft Beer, Part One — Why Isn’t Craft Beer More Diverse?] we explained why ...
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Everything You Need to Know About the 2023 Queer Beer Box
Hello Squirrel Friends! Grace Weitz here, Senior Content Editor for Hop Culture. In 2020, I started Queer Beer for one simple reason: I’d never found ...
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