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He did say "nearly every", but I am confident we can identify absurd racist undertones in EVERY industry if we try hard enough.
I would not even say hobby. Seems there is a long list of industry that has had such issues. The "good ol boys" club as it was known. Maybe craft beer is just the most recent example or the brewing industry slower to adapt to times than others.
Are you talking about the Black Is Beautiful series? The series made by hundreds of breweries with profits donated to African American charities. I’d love to know about the media racism having to do with that.
I’m a mug club member at three breweries. Breweries have been far more inclusive to all people - whether as a customer or as a worker. To people in the craft industry, the product is an art form.
The problems a lot of time come up in more corporate settings involving people more disconnected from the ‘crafts’. Most stories coming out are about management and owners and not a whole lot about head brewers. But everyone in the industry I’ve talked to is not surprised at all by the stories.
Yep! At this point my attitude is that people are way hypersensitive (thanks MSM) AND have found a way to possibly make an easy buck. Are there some incidents that are valid? I'm sure there are but they are drowned out by all the people who are so ready to be outraged that any slight - no matter how minor - is "A REALLY BIG DEAL".
Are you talking about the Instagram linked in the article? Because at least half of the complaints seemed to come from customers with a bad and maybe somewhat offensive sense of humor.
The Instagram is @ratmagnet. All the stories are in stories and the archived stories (not sure what they call them). I don’t know that any of them are customer complaints, so I think you are looking in the wrong place. It’s employees or former employees talking about abuse ranging from verbal, sexual and physical abuse. There are several stories of actual or attempted rape. There are also stories of pay/promotion inequality but most of the focus is on abuse by superiors.
I understand how it works. It's clear that a lot of them were customers. The one I quoted earlier for example.
Sounds like any other corporate setting now that big money has invaded some of these places. It's easy for the magazine to be woke and just blame race though.
never heard of it but if they're only focused on skin color to me, that seems pretty racist
I am not a craft beer guy. From what I have read about craft beer it has been pretty much all men starting out small, some in their garage and basements and growing the product. Have there been many women or black brewers that have started out making small batches of their own brew and growing the product into a product stores picked up?
Riptide Red (started out Brewski's, but they got sued by some beer manufacturer in Texas and changed to Riptide).
