Beer News: Brewery Raises Money For Paralyzed Carjacking Victim / 5000-Year-Old Brewery Discovered

American Craft Beer|February 17th, 2021|

Courtesy Werk Force Brewing / Facebook

A Beer For Kim

A mother of two who was paralyzed during a carjacking is now getting some help from a Werk Force Brewing, a southwest Chicagoland brewery that brewed a beer to help fund her recuperation.

Kim Webring, 47-year-old mom of two young boys, was eating outside a Wendy’s in Aurora, Illinois last month when she was carjacked. And one of the suspects pulled her out of the car and shot her in the back, severing her spine.

Kim is a fan of Werk Force Brewing, which inspired the team to take action and raise some beer money.

“The next morning, we came in the brewery, got the guys brewing the beer, put the news out we were doing anything we can to take care of her,” Nick Cata of Werk Force Brewing told Fox 32.

A Beer for Kim is a West Coast IPA, her favorite style. It includes a link to her GoFundMe page which has already raised more than $200,000.

Customers stood in line today to buy “A Beer for Kim,” with all the proceeds being donated to the paralyzed mom. By mid-afternoon Friday, all 40 cases of Kim’s beer had sold out, with one exception….

“We have some set aside specifically for her too. So she will have her share,” said Cata.

Words To Drink By

““Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” – Mark Twain, American writer and entrepreneur

Courtesy: EGYPTIAN MINISTRY OF ANTIQUITIES

World’s oldest Brewery Discovered in Egypt

“Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed what could be the world’s oldest known beer factory, dating back about 5,000 years,” according to the BBC.

A joint Egyptian-American team discovered the brewery in Abydos, an ancient burial ground in the desert. The brewery consisted of eight large areas, containing about 40 earthenware pots arranged in two rows, according to the secretary general of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities, Mostafa Waziry.

The brewery “may have been built in this place specifically to supply the royal rituals that were taking place inside the funeral facilities of the kings of Egypt,” said archaeologist and mission co-head Matthew Adams of New York University. “The brewery could have been producing as much as 22,400 liters of beer at a time.”