Celeste Beatty is making herstory and money moves by becoming the first African American Female brewery owner. Beatty is the owner of the Harlem Brewing Company. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Harlem, USA.
Beatty grew up in the South. According to Beatty many who migrated from the South to Harlem have a passion for flavor. In her interview with Insider she said, “you know, we were always competing, who had the best banana pudding, who had the best, you know, chicken, beef, you know. So, the Belgian style, Harlem style, is really about adding more layers of flavor”
Harlem Brewing Company impacts the beers flavors with high citrus, low hops, and a lot of spiciness.
In her interview, Celeste Beatty says, “The next steps for us is to get the brewpub open here in Harlem, with plans to do a few other locations, and my interest in that is to make sure that some part of the company is owned by the community. But I really think in this world that we live in, we’ve got to find a way to get people in the community not just working there, but they’ve got to have some equity in it”.
Harlem Brewing Company has won Best Brew in NYC, and has been seen on Fox News, Harlem News Group inc, and featured in Forbes, The Root, People, and Ebony Magazine.
According to Celeste, African Americans own less than 1% of all US craft breweries, and surveys suggest African Americans made up only 10% of weekly craft-beer drinkers in 2016. These low numbers are a result of the long history of discrimination in the alcohol industry in the US. From the late 1700s to the late 1800s, laws were passed across several Southern states that forbade retailers to give, sell, or deliver alcohol to any enslaved or free African Americans. In the 1920s and ’30s, white Southern prohibitionists claimed that, quote: “liquor gave Negroes the strength to repudiate their inferior status and that it also encouraged them to attack white women. Therefore, it was imperative that it should be denied them.” But black Americans have a long history of brewing beer, spanning back to Peter Hemings, who took over malting and brewing at Thomas Jefferson’s plantation, Monticello.
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