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I’m a week behind posting this bit of brewery pandemic support news, but that’s okay—it’s good news for the Columbia Gorge area around Hood River. Double Mountain Brewery established the Double Mountain Foundation to help support employees impacted by COVID-19, and seeks to expand to cover other hospitality workers in … Continue reading
Here’s kind of an amazing story on COVID-19 pandemic support with an angle I wouldn’t have foreseen: California’s Sierra Nevada Brewing is able to help a local hospital with coronavirus testing by producing viral transport medium in its lab. Here’s the press release the company issued yesterday: Sierra Nevada Brewing … Continue reading
The Session ended over a year ago, but these are unusual times, and Alistair Reece over at Fuggled proposed a special quarantine edition for old times’ sake: Yes you read that right, for a limited time only (quite possibly just this once, or maybe a few times depending on response) … Continue reading
Newport, Oregon’s Rogue Ales & Spirits pivoted its distillery into producing hand sanitizer late last month, making it available for first responders and other essentials during the COVID-19 pandemic. Rogue’s “Helping Hand Hand Sanitizer” has been donated to fire departments from Newport, Toledo, Waldport, Yachats, Depoe Bay, and Lincoln City, … Continue reading
I’ve never received PR from Lone Star Beer before, but the Texas-based company is launching a new seasonal beer, a Mexican-style lager named Rio Jade. In conjunction with that launch, the company is also kicking off its “Keep The Lights On Y’all” initiative to help support the Texas bar and … Continue reading
From the Tampa Bay area, Florida: 3 Daughters Brewing (which we got a chance to visit back in 2016 for that year’s Beer Bloggers Conference) has been giving back to the community with free hand sanitizer to the public, and free beer for Florida’s frontline heroes in the face of … Continue reading
Hopworks Urban Brewery in Portland is collaborating with the Looptworks Foundation to raise money to produce face masks by selling a special case of beer they’re calling the “Homebound Hero 24 Pack.” $5 from the sale of every case will go to Looptworks, crafting the masks for Central City Concern—details … Continue reading
During this COVID-19 pandemic we’re seeing a lot of good coming from breweries that are able to help and give back to the community (I’ve started a list of Central Oregon ones here as well as starting to share more pandemic support stories), and 10 Barrel Brewing here in Bend … Continue reading
Urban South Brewery is a New Orleans-based company that opened in 2016, and early this year, opened an R&D brewery location in Houston, Texas. The brewery has been dedicating some time and resources to pandemic relief support, with the latest announcement yesterday about the Houston location joining a global brewery collaboration, All Together, brewing beer to support hospitality professionals impacted by COVID-19.
2 Towns Ciderhouse in Corvallis has spearheaded a (mostly) local delivery service that not only includes its own cider and hard seltzer products, but has partnered with a number of other Willamette Valley businesses (or craft suppliers, as the email read) as part of that service. Not only does it help out other businesses struggling during this time but also helps to bring “a taste of normalcy” to people staying at home and safe.