There are easy topics brewery owners love to talk about to promote themselves. And then there are other, much stickier issues most avoid addressing: gentrification, racism and sexism in the industry; labor; etc...
Sam Gilbert, who co-founded Oakland’s Temescal Brewing about three years ago in the neighborhood with which it shares a name, doesn’t shy away from such difficult conversations. Oakland’s changing, and it’s well past time to talk about it.