Yes, Black People Brew Beer, Too

Pittsburgh’s beer-drinking identity is either the scruffy steel worker with drops of I.C. Light splattered across his ZZ Top beard, or the Cupertino-transplant tech wizard swilling an Imperial IPA through a not-plastic straw so as not to get froth on their salon-coifed mustache.

The truth, of course, lies somewhere in the middle, and includes a group often erased from that beer-chugging identity: African Americans.

Two black men in Pittsburgh—comedian/podcaster Day Bracey and event promoter/brewer Mike Potter—are hoping to change that picture when they launch the “Fresh Fest” this weekend, which they are billing as the first African-American beer festival in the nation.

Read more via citylab.com

#BlackBeer #Hoptomist #BeerNews #BeerSnob #CraftBeer #BlackNews