Oskar Blues Brewery and NAACP to host voter registration drive

PRESS RELEASE:

WHAT: Oskar Blues Brewery and Transylvania County NAACP have teamed up to host a voter registration drive at the brewery in Brevard, NC. The event will include live music from Under Great Lights and Kasey Williams, food from the Oskar Blues CHUBwagon food truck, and coffee sampling from Hotbox Roasters.

Oskar Blues beer and B. Stiff Soda will be available for purchase.

WHEN: Sunday, September 25, 2016 from 1-4 p.m.

WHY: To facilitate the voter registration process for interested parties. Why not drink a beer while being patriotic?

WHERE: Oskar Blues Brewery, 342 Mountain Industrial Dr, Brevard, NC.

CONTACT: Ellen Catlin, ellen@oskarblues.com

About Oskar Blues Brewery

Founded by Dale Katechis in 1997 in Lyons, Colorado, Oskar Blues Brewery launched the craft beer-in-a-can apocalypse with hand-canned, flagship brew Dale’s Pale Ale. Today, Oskar Blues is one of the fastest growing breweries in the country and operates breweries in Longmont, Colorado, Brevard, North Carolina, and Austin, Texas, while producing 192,000 barrels in 2015. The original canned craft brewery continues push innovation with creations like The Crowler while it distributes to 50 U.S. states, Washington, D.C., as well as parts of Canada, Sweden, Australia and the U.K.

In 2013, Oskar Blues founded the CAN’d Aid Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit public charity that offers grassroots grants to those making a difference in the areas of community, the environment, music, and more. In 2015 alone, CAN’d Aid partnered with 52 organizations and raised $2 million to date. CAN’d Aid’s “do-goodery” efforts include:
Towns – building strong communities
Tunes – for your eyeholes and earholes
Treads + Trails – get outside and get after it
Love Yur Mama – save the blue marble
To keep up with all things Oskar Blues, visit
oskarblues.com
facebook.com/OskarBluesCans
twitter.com/oskarblues
instagram.com/oskarblues/
youtube.com/oskarbluescans

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About Thomas Calder
Thomas Calder received his MFA in Fiction from the University of Houston's Creative Writing Program. His writing has appeared in Gulf Coast, the Miracle Monocle, Juked and elsewhere. His debut novel, The Wind Under the Door, is now available.

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