Business View Magazine | Volume 8, Issue 9

104 BUSINESS VIEW MAGAZINE VOLUME 8, ISSUE 9 and creatively, with both an employee stock ownership program and hiring practices that allow for input and ownership of the product. “We are based on one city block,” explains Marcy, “and we usually have 130 employees (COVID forced us to lay off the nonproduction staff temporarily). We call everyone ‘the Brew Crew’. It doesn’t matter if you’re in accounting, or packaging, or if you’re in the lab, you are part of the Brew Crew. Our facility consists of a one- hundred-barrel brewhouse, a second 10-barrel brewhouse where we create our speciality beer, and then a little one-barrel brewhouse which is almost like a homebrew kind of an operation. That is a small-scale testing system where we invite our crew to join up with each other and create and concoct all kinds of wild and crazy beers. Then we take those beers and put them in the break room for employees to have, free of cost. It is a great test system because when free beer does not move in the break room of a