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

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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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