Of course, shelter-in-place orders reduce the amount of foot-traffic to businesses that rely on people coming to your business.
Business is down and when you are a small local business, you often don't have the luxury of a whole lot of margin to get past a long period of reduced sales.
This is true of restaurants and similar businesses, and of course includes the small local brewery.
Here in Denver, over this past weekend, there was a "Shelter-in-Place Beer Festival" to try to help out these small breweries.
All proceeds from ticket sales, merchandise sales, and sponsorships will go to affected Colorado craft breweries staff.
I decided to participate. I ordered 2 "tickets" and a couple of tee-shirts. I also headed over to one of my local breweries, Green Mountain Brewing Company and picked up a couple crowlers and a growler of beer.
My participation won't save any breweries, but hopefully it helps out some.
