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Former O’Connor Brewing Co. employee Gayle Summerlin has an immediate answer about the company’s place in the Hampton Roads craft beer scene. “We were the OG, right?” Summerlin said. Summerlin, who handled Hampton Roads retail sales for O’Connor from September 2021 to November 2022, said an O’Connor brew was the first legal beer she had at age 21. The company, which started in 2010, was the ...

For years, brewery leaders participated in and allowed worker mistreatment to occur, former workers say.