Quench your thirst and do some good

Posted on December 14, 2018
Obed and Isaac’s Microbrewery contributing to wildfire relief (Photo Flickr/Damien Pollet)

 

By Dave Dahl

SPRINGFIELD – Help disaster victims? I’ll drink to that!

Beer sales help California wildfire victims, through a program Sierra Nevada is organizing through the nation’s microbreweries, including Obed and Isaac’s, which Karen Conn and her family run microbreweries in Springfield and Peoria.

“Sierra Nevada reached out to the brewers across the United States brewers and said they wanted to get behind doing a fund raiser for the Camp Fire relief fund,” Conn tells WJBC News. “In order to do that, they ask that brewers sign on, buy the product, follow the recipe, use their name, and donate 100 percent of the proceeds back to the fund to help those rebuild in California.”

You can see a list of where “Resilience” is on tap at www.sierranevada.com.

Dave Dahl can be reached at [email protected]

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