We Are Beer has announced a collaboration with Brave Noise across all of its UK festivals throughout 2022.

Bristol Craft Beer Festival

Brave Noise is a global collaborative effort to provide inclusive and safe environments for women, BIPOC, and LGBTQIA+ individuals throughout the beer industry.

The Brave Noise beer is a summery, sessionable beer, perfect for drinking across this year’s We Are Beer festivals. It has been brewed in the UK by Lost and Grounded.

A celebration of brewing culture, We Are Beer’s festivals include events in Bristol, Manchester, Birmingham, Glasgow, and London. The latter celebrates its tenth anniversay this year.

Brienne Allen, Ren Navarro, and Ash Eilot, from the Brave Noise team, will be attending this year’s London festival. The core mission of the festivals is celebrating the creativity, diversity, and dynamism of modern brewing culture, keeping beer exciting, inspiring, and outward looking. They aim to bring new people into modern beer culture.

The Brave Noise collaboration was inspired by those who have shared stories about gender discrimination, racism, sexual assault, and sexual harassment within the brewing industry.

More than 70% of women in the UK say they have experienced some kind of sexual harassment in public. By joining the Brave Noise initiative, alcohol-related companies must post their code of conduct publicly, commit to long-term safe and discrimination-free workspaces, and donate a majority of proceeds to a non-profit that reflects the Brave Noise
mission.

We Are Beer has published its code of conduct, and harassment and discrimination policies, on its website. It promotes the Everyone’s Welcome Initiative, which We Are Beer has implemented since 2018.

Long-term changes

Greg Wells, founder of We Are Beer, said: “We have been so inspired by the Brave Noise Organisation and their important message, advocating for safe spaces and inclusive environments by requesting breweries be transparent with their policies and commit to long-term changes.

“We will be promoting this message of inclusivity to all 30,000-plus attendees coming to all our We Are Beer festivals across the UK this summer, with the US Brave Noise team even joining us on site at London Craft Beer Festival’s ten-year anniversary.”

Brienne Allan, brewer, and co-founder of Brave Noise, added: “Accountability, transparency, and action. That’s what we want to see through the Brave Noise collab and initiative.

“It’s great to see We Are Beer festivals stepping up to create safe spaces at their upcoming events. We need to see more folks around the globe taking the initiative to create safe spaces at fests.”