June 6, 2020 Business Update

Hello everyone. Liz here. We want to provide you all with an update so everyone knows everything is ok. We’d like to explain why growler sales didn’t take place on Wednesday and why the brewery may be operating under certain conditions in the short and long term.

My body formed blood clots up and down my left leg this past week, and I did a short stint in the hospital. The baby and I are both fine and I do not have coronavirus. A coronavirus test was administrated before admission to the hospital. I have had a couple of underlying conditions (one diagnosed yesterday at Riverside) that make me more prone to clotting specifically in my left leg. Being pregnant also puts women at higher risk for clotting to begin with.

We have a great team of doctors that we were linked up with while at Riverside and we’re grateful and relieved to feel so confident that a skilled team of doctors now have this under control. I have had some minor and major issues with my left leg most of my life but there is a silver lining to this whole fiasco over the past few days - they think they can actually fix mostly what is wrong after the baby is delivered in October. Had this not happened, we would not have been linked up with this team of doctors. Riverside hospital is an incredible institution.

As for now, I have to stay on medication and wait for my body to slowly dissolve the clots. There is a slight chance I could need surgery to remove the clots, but this is unlikely. At this point walking is difficult, but I am getting better everyday. So we cannot really say what our operations at the brewery will look like over the next few weeks. We really hope to do a growler sale on Wednesday, but that will entirely depend on where things are in the coming days. We’re waiting on my body to recover at this point and focused on healing.

In regards to longer term plans for the brewery, we will be taking decisions one step at a time as we feel we have adequate information available as to whether the pandemic is waxing or waning. Given the pregnancy, my underlying conditions and research starting to suggest that coronavirus may manifest as a vascular disease, we will continue to be VERY cautious - as my vascular health is currently poor. We do plan to continue online ordering for curbside growler pickup. Our next progression in reopening would be the possibility of adding reservation only patio seating and selling to go beers a couple nights per week for DORA consumption. Unfortunately, indoor seating at the pub could be quite a ways off to be completely honest.

We feel transparency and honesty is important at this time, it’s something we are all craving right now in light of the difficult times our society is experiencing. We want justice and transparency in reformation for people of color and systemic racism. We want transparency from our leaders in regards to the coronavirus. There will hopefully be yet another silver lining to these situations as well - and hopefully that silver lining will be massive reform on many different levels of our systems.

Lastly, Donald would like to apologize if he saw anyone at the protest on Wednesday and seemed short with you, ignored you or just generally seemed pissed off. His mind wasn’t in a healthy place and in retrospect he probably should’ve stayed home that night.

Thank you all for taking the time to read this. And most of all, thank you for always being so supportive of the pub and our family.