What Do You Get When You Cross Employee Ownership and Craft Beer?
Executive Director
Two employee-owned breweries, Deschutes and Harpoon, are releasing EHOP, a beer celebrating employee ownership and independently owned craft brewing. In its press release, Deschutes Brewery said the beer celebrates employee ownership as a growing answer to news about craft breweries being acquired and incorporated into conglomerates. Each brewery will release its own version of the beer, both brewed using a common recipe and using hops grown by their own employees. Descriptions (and suggestions for finding the beer) are online from Harpoon and from Deschutes. In its article on the Great American Beer Festival in Denver, just wrapping up now, the Denver Business Journal noted that three of the five largest craft breweries in Colorado, New Belgium Brewing, Left Hand Brewing, and Odell Brewing, are all employee-owned.
