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Massachusetts is known around the world as a bastion of educational excellence. It is also a noted spot for great beer.
In an effort to combine the two (and to contue the work they started in 2019 when they combined forces for theHop Forward Career Fair), Mass Bay Brewing Co. (the folks behind Harpoon beer and City Roots cider) and the Mass Brewers Guild are teaming up to launch HopForwardEquality.com, a new website that serves as a hub for trainings and other supportive resources to help Bay State breweries develop their diversity, equity, and inclusion work.
Presently, only about 12 of the Bay State’s 130-odd breweries are minority-owned and over 80% of craft beer consumers are white. Hop Forward hopes to change those numbers by attracting and encouraging diverse candidates and developing broader talent pools in the industry.
With partners that include Boston Pride, the City of Boston’s Office of Diversity, and the Boston YWCA, the Hop Forward site will also feature Roxbury native Colin Knight’s behind-the-scenes brewery tour show “Black Brew Dialogues” and other curated content and hopes to become a central hub for beer industry education and support.
Despite the Bay State’s proud history of progressive policies and revolutionary creativity, when it comes to beer and equality, most of us have much to learn, Thanks to Mass Bay Brewing and the Mass Brewer’s Guild, we now have a place to go!