{"id":3144,"date":"2020-09-01T17:00:56","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T00:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/?p=3144"},"modified":"2021-07-07T12:12:52","modified_gmt":"2021-07-07T19:12:52","slug":"beyond-the-bottle-beer-and-survival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beermonthclub.com\/blog\/beyond-the-bottle-beer-and-survival\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the Bottle: Beer and Survival"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sonoma<\/a>In recent months I\u2019ve been checking in on how breweries here in Sonoma County have been handling COVID-19 complications, including California\u2019s statewide closure of indoor dining on July 13th<\/sup>. With that pitch-perfect 2020 timing: we now have wildfire season upon us. Here in Petaluma (20-ish minutes south of Sonoma County\u2019s biggest city, Santa Rosa) we\u2019ve only seen ash and smoke thus far, but there are 500+ fires and 750,000+ acres burned statewide. Hazy skies. Scary-ass sunsets. Regularly checking our local air-quality numbers. Got our bug-out bags repacked. My wife just sent me over a Google spreadsheet of our \u201cWhat would we grab in 20 minutes?\u201d list. The house is prepped, in case friends need to evacuate here again.<\/p>\n

For our local breweries, which had been finding COVID-19 workarounds like outdoor beer gardens, it means one more step backwards. All of the Santa Rosa breweries I mentioned last month\u2014Russian River, Moonlight, and Cooperage\u2014have had to temporarily suspend their outdoor operations due to air-quality issues, all switching to take-out only for the moment. Here\u2019s hoping air-quality levels improve soon and fire season won\u2019t be as bad as it looks.<\/p>\n

That said\u2026 this is familiar turf. We\u2019ve endured wildfires, and everything 2020\u2019s thrown so far. We had N95 masks way before COVID. We\u2019ll get through this too. Here\u2019s hoping you are holding up ok through everything. Support the small businesses you want to stay open. Stay strong. I\u2019m gonna go crack an apocalypse beer and fall asleep on our bug-out bag.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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