The Craft Beer World Is Facing a Me Too Reckoning
Bonnie Stiernberg, provided by
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When brewer and production manager Brienne Allan of Notch Brewing in Salem, MA, put out a call on her personal Instagram account last week for women in the craft beer world to share stories of the sexism they’ve experienced in the industry, she had no idea that she’d receive not hundreds but
thousands of messages chronicling everything from misogyny and sexual harassment and toxic workplace cultures to sexual assault.
Allan has spent the past week posting all of the stories and allegations to her Instagram Stories in an attempt to raise awareness of what’s clearly a systemic problem, and as a result, some prominent figures in the craft beer scene have come under fire.