On August 29th, 2023, the President of the Brewers Association, Bob Pease, sent this email to Beer is for Everyone, as a second response to the Collective Petition letter regarding the Craft Brewers Association.
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The beer industry has a long history of using the femme body as a sales tactic. For those in power (white cis-het men) both beer and women’s bodies are objects of consumption. Whether it’s conscious or not, using the femme body makes a beer more sellable.
Where you source your gift is nearly as important as who you’re giving it to. So this holiday season, we all have the opportunity to make our holiday gift-giving mean something more. These are not things; these are not just cans of beer or t-shirts; these gifts are people, causes, non-profits, and organizations that are dedicated to crafting a better beer industry for all. One might say, for EVERYONE.
Uplifting people, non-profits, breweries, and organizations are changing the craft beer industry with their unique ability to directly support the issues, causes, and people affected. Support them this #GivingTuesday.
by Zane York Foley Policy affects our everyday lives not only as people in the craft beer industry but as Americans hoping to craft better beer in a better world. As professionals and consumers, the intersection of craft beer and voting can sometimes be ambiguous. Nonetheless, our industry is affected by real issues …
More importantly than ever, where we choose to give our business is a direct way of supporting people, causes, and initiatives we want to see thrive. Craft beer drinkers are uniquely positioned to empower those who deserve it most. With October being National Women’s Small Business Month and with our readers being so dedicated to supporting women-owned breweries – we couldn’t think of a better time to release a list of nine women-owned breweries.
While plenty of people might associate craft beer with quenching one’s thirst, we associate craft beer with much more. A brewery is a community hub where friends and family gather and neighbors meet and exchange ideas; we share craft beer over the same tables as families share dinner. We share gifts and act splendidly and live as one. Today, we hope to take that energy and use BIFE to call upon breweries to be a beacon in their communities and help the craft beer industry tackle hunger.
Here is a short recap of the panel discussion From Dream To Reality: Women Entrepreneurs Who Have Launched Their Own Beer Industry Businesses at CraftBeerCon 2022. With the input from the panelists, we discuss what further steps can be taken by both the beer industry and female and non-binary business owners and aspiring business owners to make the industry more welcoming and navigable for them.
Beer is Art is a project that engages South African youth in the booming craft beer industry in the country. The project is expansive in that it addresses several social issues: youth unemployment, youth alcoholism, and putting a new generation of South African brewers in conversation with other brewers around the globe.
In the craft beer community today, there are a number of efforts to improve diversity, equity, and inclusion, or DEI for short. One of these movements, the Inclusion Beer Project (IBP), is gathering momentum in the East Bay Area, and is being spearheaded by the Bay Area Brewer’s Guild along with several Guild members. As the IBP launched during the pandemic, the original idea of hosting in-person events was scrapped in favor of an ongoing collaborative movement, including beer releases from participating breweries.
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