Over 300 Breweries Are Making a Beer With the Exact Same Name to Help Hospitality Workers

[Celerity]

https://www.thrillist.com/news/nation/all-together-ipa-area-brewers-coronavirus



The list of unknowns in the hospitality industry is long. Unfortunately, it doesn't look like things will get clearer soon. Nonetheless, the community around the industry has shown a lot of love in recent weeks from finding ways to support each other on a local level to larger projects like the one recently created by Brooklyn's Other Half Brewing Co.

The brewery came up with a recipe for what it calls All Together IPA, a global collaboration that has been taken up by more than 300 breweries globally. Every brewery is using the same recipe (or tiny twists on it) and selling the beer to raise money for workers and causes local to each brewery.

"Everyone is affected, whether you're a hostess, server, or hotel worker," Other Half co-founder Andrew Burman told Thrillist by phone. "We wanted to do something that was local and supported the people that were there [in the community]. We didn't want to say that you were giving to a national charity. If a small brewer needed this to keep the lights on or pay an employee for a couple of weeks longer, that's what it's for. If a homebrewer wanted to brew it just to shoot the shit with his friends and make life easier for a couple of days, that's great."



Any brewer can grab the recipe, brew it, and package it with a twist on a similar label designed by Stout Collective. Other Half just asks that "a portion of the proceeds go to supporting hospitality professionals in each brewery's own community. The rest should be donated to keeping the brewery in business to weather this storm." It was almost instantly taken up by breweries across the globe with more and more signing up still.

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[customerserviceguy]

1. This isn't a new concept

It happened after the California wildfires, too. The craft brew community is a tight-knit, compassionate group of people.

[marble falls]

2. Great! I hope some makes it to Marble Falls! IPA, its not just for breakfast anymore!

[BlueTexasMan]

5. Beer

Maybe Real Ale in Blanco will pick it up. They're pretty hip folks!

[marble falls]

6. I drink a lot (relatively speaking) of Blanco's finest. Commisar is about my favorite ...

the only sticker on my car is a Real Ale sticker. Blanco's about 30 miles straight down 281 from me, a hop, skip and jump in Texas terms. Got a couple of really good restaurants, too. The Blue Bird has a couple of sour beers they sell by the glass I really love.

After the Trumpvirus has run its course, we ought to meet up. Real Ale has a nice tasting room.

I'm a cheap date - one or two bottles and I am done.

[SeattleVet]

3. Thanks!

I've forwarded the info about this to our brewer and board (I'm a member/owner of a Co-Op brewery here in Seattle).

We have a good community presence, and this is something that looks like it's a great fit for us, and something that can help our neighborhood restaurants, and the brewery staff.

[Celerity]

4. YW! and thanks for passing it on! I have forwarded it to some micro-breweries here in the Nordics