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Crossroads brewery’s new craft beer part of worldwide effort to benefit industry workers
A Crossroads craft brewery is joining a new worldwide beer collaboration to help raise funds for industry employees affected by the COVID-19 shutdown.
James Stutsman, co-founder of City Barrel Brewery + Kitchen, said he supports the shelter-in-place order, but added it has had a devastating effect on his 20 employees, who were laid off so they could apply for unemployment.
He wants to do more to support the workers — who have become “friends and family” — and make sure they have a job to come back to.
So he’s joined a worldwide beer collaboration called All Together. The collaboration includes breweries from across the country, as well as in Argentina, Canada, Ireland, Italy, Sweden, New Zealand and the United Kingdom.
Beer drinkers sign up to get a newsletter that will inform them when one of the beers will be available in their area.
City Barrel is teaming up with Other Half Brewing Co. in Brooklyn, New York, on an All Together IPA that is scheduled to be released on April 22. It plans to donate 50 percent of the proceeds from the sale of its All Together beer to its laid off employees.
City Barrel was founded in 2019 at 1740 Holmes St.