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What started as individual efforts by Eastern European craft brewers to brew beers supporting relief efforts in Ukraine has become a worldwide movement that’s growing daily.
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In the US it began when Milwaukee, Wisconsin-based Lakewood Brewing introduced its Putin is a Dick beer label crowlers to generate funds for Ukraine relief efforts that has grown into a movement that signs no signs of slowing.
Then global craft brewer BrewDog announced the launch of a new beer, United for Ukraine and 100% of its profits being donated to the Disasters Emergency Committee Appeal’s humanitarian efforts in Ukraine. “The last thing we can do is sit idly by” BrewDog co-Founder James Watt said about the brewery’s effort. “We stand with the people of Ukraine and have suspended shipments to Russia indefinitely.”
(Courtesy Boston Beer)
On April 22, Boston Beer, home to Samuel Adams and Dogfish Head as well as local craft beer brands Angel City Brewery and Coney Island Brewing announced plans to brew Resolve an open-source beer recipe from East Aurora, NY’s 42 North Brewing Company and Kyiv, Ukraine’s 2085 Brewery.”
Brewed to support humanitarian efforts in Ukraine, Resolve is a traditional Kellerbier designed by Matt Matuszewski from 42 North.
The yeast and hops used are up to the hosting brewery and this open-source relief beer campaign in now being supported by the following breweries…
- 42 North Brewing Co. (East Aurora, NY)
- Thin Man Brewery (Buffalo, NY)
- Britesmith Brewing (Williamsville, NY)
- Lunkenheimer Craft Brewing Co (Weedsport, NY)
- Arbroath A.D.1320 (Carmyllie, UK)
- Willimantic Brewing Company (Willimantic, CT)
- Stowe Cider (Stowe, VT)
- Reketye Brewing (Budapest, Hungary)
- Karlsson’s Brewing (Munich, Germany)
- Umanpivo (Uman, Ukraine)
- Ogle County Breweryn (Oregon, IL)
- Witch’s Hat Brewing (South Lyon, MI)
- Keel Farms (Plant City, FL)
- Brewery Hills (Wroclaw, Poland)
- Whitefield Brewery (Tipperary, Ireland)
- Bolton Landing Brewery (Bolton Landing, NY)
- Underground Microbrewery (Tbilisi, GA)
- Danville Brewing Company (Danville, CA)
- Oxford Brewing (Oxford, UK)
- Jackie O’s (Athens, Ohio)
- Great North Ale Work’s (Manchester, NH)
- Holidaily Brewing (Golden, CO)
- Shrewd Fox Brewery (Eldred, NY)
- Cape May Brewing (Cape May, NJ)
- 2085 Brewery (Kyiv, Ukraine)
- Good Measure Brewing (Northfield, VT)
- Lucy and Howe Brewing Company (Jericho, VT)
- Resurgence Brewing (Buffalo, NY)
- Drunken Rabbit Brewing (South Hadley, MA)
- Windy Brew Brewery (Strykersville, NY)
- KCBC (Brooklyn, New York)
- Taylor Brooke Brewery (Woodstock, CT)
- Geronimo Brewing (Doylestown, PA)
- Big Thompson Brewery (Loveland, C O)
- Twin Eagle Brewing (Ann Arbor, MI)
(Courtesy Anheuser-Busch)
And big beer companies are also brewing Ukraine relief beers…
On April 25 Anheuser-Busch announced that it will join AB InBev teams around the world to launch a new beer aimed at providing humanitarian relief for those impacted by the crisis in Ukraine.
Taking inspiration from beloved Ukrainian beer, the brewer will introduce a tribute to Chernigivske in select cities across the US, with its profits going to the Care Ukraine Crisis Fund.
Chernigivske, which is part of AB InBev’s global portfolio of brands, is named after the city Chernihiv and has been brewed in Ukraine since 1988.
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