Hop Culture is compiling a list of queer-owned and supporting breweries here. Looking forward, Grace hopes that in-person renditions of Queer Beer Fest will serve as that “welcome open space for everyone, however you identify.” It’s hard to deny the significance of the bar and, by extension, beer in queer history.” In 1985, there were only 110 breweries of any kind in the U.S. During the ’80s and ’90s and even today (well, except for the last year), bars have been a place for queer communities to organize, mourn, celebrate, and gather. Retail dollar sales of craft beer rose 5, to 28.4 billion, accounting for 24.6 of the 115 billion U.S. The gay community credits the Stonewall Inn for being the site where the gay-rights movement kicked off, and in the late 1970s the late San Francisco city supervisor Harvey Milk worked with the Teamsters Union to boycott Coors for its discriminatory hiring practices by blocking its sale in the city and beyond.Īs Hop Culture’s event operations manager Brittany Burke writes in its sister publication, Beer Advocate, “Gay bars have also seen their fair share of tragedy, from memorials held in honor of lives cut short during the AIDS epidemic to one of the deadliest mass shootings in U.S. But safe spaces are necessary spaces for the LGBTQ+ population. Also in Oakland, Temescal Brewing offered the monthly Queer First Fridays until the pandemic hit.Ĭovid has killed off a few of the few remaining lesbian bars in the US, leaving just over an estimated two dozen standing. With more craft breweries per capita than any other state in the nation and long-established brewing companies that have become household names, Vermont is a destination where beer lovers can taste some of the best beers in the USA. The six-year-old Queers Makin’ Beers homebrew club has three chapters: Stuart, Florida Bend, Oregon Oakland, California. A queer beer fest launched in Toronto in 2011 but seems to have since folded into Toronto’s mainstream Festival of Beer. Richmond, Virginia’s Hardywood Park Craft Brewery has hosted the day-long Love on Tap festival for the Virginia Pride organization. The number of craft beer spaces designated for the LGBTQ+ population are few. “You’re not just slapping a rainbow on something but creating meaningful actions that have a tangible effect on the community.” “(Sam Adams founder) Jim Koch identifies as cis male but (Sam Adams parent company) Boston Beer has done all this amazing work because he believes in the values of inclusion,” Weitz says. Today, The Alchemist operates two breweries in Waterbury and Stowe and distributes Heady Topper and Focal Banger throughout the state, with the occasional out-of-state shipment. The efforts of these larger breweries demonstrates what it truly means to be an ally. Pop-up truck sales, long lines in Waterbury, and a booming craft beer scene led up to the opening of the 2016 Stowe Brewery and Visitor’s Center.
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