How to support your favorite brewery on National Beer Day 2020
Today, we encourage you to grab a growler, bites and more from your favorite brewery! It’s National Beer Day and although we know you’d like to be at their tap room toasting their craft with friends, many brewing companies impacted by the coronavirus are providing alternative ways to enjoy their beer and celebrate.
How are they doing it? By filling growlers for pick up, taking online orders and even putting “Survival Taco Boxes” of all sizes together for their customers.
Also, National Beer Day just happens to coincide with #TakeoutTuesday. That makes it a great time to choose your local brewery to show your ongoing support for small businesses.
Have a favorite? Head to their website where these brewers and providers of beer and other trendy drinks have listed the unique ways they’re still serving customers, whether at curbside or in their homes, until they can open their doors again.
Here are several across California and Arizona:
8 Bit Brewing Co.
Location: Murrieta, CA
Offers: Accepts online orders of beer, merch, even food supplies. Also offers pick-ups. Check their website though, because supplies change frequently.
Details: https://shop.8bitbrewingcompany.com/collections/beer-for-pick-up
The Homebrewer
Location: San Diego, CA
Offers: The shop fills crowlers and sells other supplies for those who create their own craft beer. They accept online orders, and fill them via regular pickup or curbside service. They also ask patrons to pay ahead to avoid cash or card exchanges.
Details: https://www.thehomebrewersd.com/
Hop Secret
Location: Monrovia, CA
Offers: The tap room offers evening deliveries Tuesdays and Fridays, along with daily pickups on-site or curbside.
Details: https://www.hopsecretbrewing.com/online-ordering
Luchador Brewing Co.
Location: Chino Hills, CA
Offers: Get your survival tacos here! The taco boxes, for up to six people, contain tacos, sides and more. In addition, the Chino Hills, CA. business promised, “we’re still brewing, amigos!” They are filling crowlers and offer discounts for buying more than one.
Details: https://www.luchadorbrew.com/
Mike Hess Brewing
Locations: San Diego and Fresno (via Jack’s Urban Eats)
Offers: 6-packs, cases, merch and gift cards to-go from three San Diego locations. In addition, their Central California site partnered with another small business, Jack’s Urban Eats, to pair Mike Hess beers with food. They request at least 10 minutes notice before arriving for pickup. Some sites deliver as well.
Details: https://www.mikehessbrewing.com/
Rouleur Brewing
Location: Carlsbad, CA
Offers: Crowler orders accepted online, and filled fresh for daily pickup weekdays at Carlsbad tasting room. They also thanked their patrons and urged them to “support small business!”
Details: https://rouleurbrewing.com/to-go-beer/
Redwood Coast Cider
Locations: San Mateo and San Carlos, CA
Offers: Their Northern and Southern California locations offer curbside fills, while the company also has a 50% discount on mug club memberships (those can be used when Redwood Coast has in-house service again).
Details: https://www.facebook.com/RedwoodCoastCiderCompanyLlc/
Scale and Feather Meadery
Location: Avondale, Ariz.
Offers: Bottle, tap and merch sales for curbside pickup, via online ordering to limit physical contact. They shared this with their customers: “We look forward to reopening as soon as possible and celebrating with you all!”
Details: https://www.scaleandfeather.com/
Stone Brewery gives beer lovers a way to measure 6 feet of distance, via their Instagram account.
Stone Brewing Co.
Locations: Throughout California and Richmond, VA
Offers: Their four California tap rooms are open, serving beer in to-go cans, bottles and new growlers only, no refills. Also offering food service from three restaurant locations, with tokens to cash in later for every $10 spent now. They take calls and online orders, but can only ship in California, with IDs checked on delivery. They also pointed to their signature gargoyle logo on Instagram to urge customers to stick with them, “because if you stand with us, the Gargoyle stands for you.”
Details: https://www.stonebrewing.com/
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