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Denver Bicycle Cafe to debut new tap handle that will always donate part of sales to charity

10/21/2015

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For the month of November, the Denver Bicycle Cafe will donate $1 to Trips for Kids Denver/Metro for every pint of Mockery Brewing’s Rakau IPA that is poured from the new Confluence Tap Handle.
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The Confluence Tap Handle program is a collaboration managed by Confluence, a corporate social responsibility firm, to further the community engagement practices of restaurants and craft beverage makers. Confluence’s vision is to have an identifiable brand where customers who see the Confluence Tap Handle will know that a portion of sales always goes to charity and that a different craft beverage will be served each month.

To celebrate the first installation of a Confluence Tap Handle, the Denver Bicycle Cafe will host a launch party on Thursday, November 5, from 6-8pm. The event is free to enter.

​The Denver Bicycle Cafe is enthusiastic about hosting the first Confluence Tap Handle. “The Denver Bicycle Cafe is all about the bicyclist and the community. We love to connect with our neighbors and the greater Denver residents,” said Denver Bicycle Cafe co-owner Jessica Caouette. “As a community organization we love to reinvest our efforts into our local nonprofits. We host events and fundraisers to give back and feel spurred on by our friends to continue those efforts. ”

One of those friends is Mockery Brewing, located on the northwest side of the River North Art District. “We have benefited immensely from sharing this beautiful city with all of our customers and neighbors and want nothing more than to see it thrive,” said Mockery Brewing owner Zach Rabun. “We are excited to be a part of the Confluence Charity Tap Handle program.  Anytime we can use our beer to help charitable causes, it is a win-win!”

The Denver Bicycle Cafe selected one of its favorite charities, Trips for Kids Denver/Metro, to be the beneficiary of the month-long program. Trips for Kids Denver/Metro is a nonprofit dedicated to giving lower-income, diverse youth the opportunity to experience and learn about the natural beauty of Colorado from the seat of a mountain bike. In 2015, Trips for Kids Denver/Metro has served 3,000 youth through their four programs: Ride Program; Earn-a-Bike program; its community bike shop: the Lucky Bikes Re-Cyclery; and its newest program, Youth-at-Work.

Confluence is excited to create a collaboration through the Tap Handle that can make a meaningful donation to charities and bring exposure to some of the newer breweries in the Denver area. “By working together as a community, we can all help one another succeed,” said Confluence founder Brian Phipps. “We hope that we can have at least one Confluence Tap Handle in each community that can not only be seen as a resource for charities, but an opportunity for craft beverage makers and restaurants to connect more deeply to their community.”

To learn more about the Confluence Tap Handle and the participating organizations, please visit www.ConfluenceTap.com.

For more event information about the Launch Party on Thursday, November 5, please go to the event site at https://www.facebook.com/events/100412983651169/.

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Guest Article | A quick guide to budgeting your brewery's donations

10/14/2015

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Last week, we contributed an article to Craft Brewing Business that's not just for breweries. Check out the article that simplifies the budgeting for donations into these five steps:
  • Determine who you want to give to.
  • Decide what kinds of resources you can leverage.
  • Budget
  • Donate!
  • Long-term planning

Budgeting donations is an important aspect of your business that needs more attention than just approving when requests are submitted.
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Crowdsourcing solutions for corporate social responsibility challenges

10/6/2015

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Occasionally your business gets in a bit of a rut. New ideas might be hard to come by. Perhaps any new ideas that do come through just do not work. At these times an outsider, usually a consulting firm, comes in to help. Well, has your business ever tried crowdsource the problem?
Reaching out to the masses and soliciting their support is another option that organizations have utilized more and more the last few years. Crowdsourcing helps a company solve some of its biggest issues. Crowdsourcing gives opportunities to other businesses in a different industry to contribute as well as creative individuals to bring alternative ideas.

Crowdsourcing

"the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from a large group of people and especially from the online community rather than from traditional employees or suppliers."
Merriam-Webster
​First, the Carlsberg Group​ is looking for ideas to improve its environmental impact with its "Cheers to Green Ideas" campaign. The initiative is looking for solutions to in three high-impact areas: eco-friendly packaging, recycling, and less water & energy consumption when brewing.
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Guest Article | Goose Island "Grit & Grain" Premiere

10/5/2015

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 During the Great American Beer Fest two weeks ago, we attended an event hosted by Goose Island Beer Co. where they premiered their film "Grit & Grain." The film shares the story about how their well-known Bourbon County Stout is made - from the cutting down of white oak trees in the Ozarks to make the bourbon barrels all the way to the tasting the finished product.

Although not a significant amount of the story involves sustainability practices, the film does show two important aspects to the process:
  • How the forests are properly managed by the forestry companies to keep the forest growing, not diminishing.
  • The repurpose use of the bourbon barrels for beer. Bourbon barrels may only be used one time, according to the definition and practice of making bourbon. Bourbon County Stout adds a second-life for the barrels.

​Please check out our review of the event and movie on PorchDrinking.com.

To see the movie, Goose Island is releasing the film in nine chapters every Friday on YouTube. The first two chapters are out now and catch watch in the player below.
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