Washington Wild Brewshed Alliance Director Chris Chappell returns to Grit & Grain to explain what happens when the forests, rivers and public lands that make great beer possible suddenly need the beer industry to return the favor. The conversation moves from efforts to sell federal public lands and weaken the Roadless Rule to the nearly 90 breweries and beer businesses using their collective voice for conservation, including the Public Lands Pub Ale, No Boat Brewing’s massive Lagerhead festival and Watershed Pub’s wonderfully civic-minded Convergence series. at Watershed Pub.
Along the way, Chris makes the case that conservation doesn’t always need to feel like homework. Sometimes advocacy looks like a brewer signing a letter. Sometimes it’s a neighborhood pub gathering people around a cause. Sometimes it’s breweries pouring lager to protect clean water. And sometimes the most effective doorway into complicated public-land policy might simply be a pint and the question of where its water came from. Because beer begins long before the mash tun — upstream in forests, snowpack and watersheds — and protecting those places ultimately means protecting what eventually winds up in our glasses.
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