State of Beer Episode Three: Hardships in Brewing

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We all love the experience of that first sip of a new beer, the comfort of the last sip of your favorite. The feeling of enjoying live music, a game night, and dinner from a food truck at your favorite brewery. For a while in Northern Colorado, it seemed there was a new brewery every other week, and there was no end in sight. You could try a new place every week and take months to circle back to the beginning, but is brewing in Northern Colorado always a breeze? 

As we all know, the year that was 2020, the sizeable shift that occurred in one could say almost every aspect of our lives, our culture, and the brewing industry was no different. Overnight, the entire culture of the craft beer scene, the community, the camaraderie, and the tap rooms all shuttered, and it was a race to see how local brewers could adjust to meet the new needs of their community. Well, they did in many different and creative ways, they kept going, they adjusted, we all adjusted. 

As everything has reopened over the last 5 years, things didn’t just snap back to 2019 times, and breweries continue to find new challenges, new things that are needed, new tastes, new hardships, and as we all do, they adjust, they keep going, they get creative . . . let’s take a glimpse into the hardships of brewing.