Not many organizations represent the concept of community more than our nonprofit for May, the Worcester Community Skateshop. Check out our Q&A with some of the WCS’s founders about how the organization uses skateboarding as a way to help the city’s youth - and we hope you’ll consider adding a donation with your next curbside or home delivery purchase.
Read MoreSafe Homes provides support to LGBTQ youth who need it, ensuring that they are safe, protected, nurtured, and validated. As you’ll read below, the services they provide to these young people literally saves lives.
While the taproom is closed during the COVID-19 crisis, customers can donate to Safe Homes online at https://www.redemptionrock.beer/beercurbside.
Read MoreIn February, we’re delighted to once again be supporting the Regional Environmental Council (REC) as our nonprofit of the month - and we’re particularly excited to support REC again it does a STAGGERING amount of work in Worcester.
Read MoreIn January, we’re supporting The CASA Project, which helps thousands of foster children in the Worcester County courts system get the legal assistance and advocacy they need. This is an enormous undertaking carried out by The CASA Project’s small team and hundreds of dedicated volunteers, and it changes the lives of literally hundreds of kids each year.
Read MoreAbby’s House, our nonprofit in December, has been serving the Worcester community for more than 40 years, and they’ve provided shelter and affordable, supportive housing to more than 14,000 women and children in need. It’s a bona fide Worcester institution, and one of the first nonprofits that came to mind when we decided to donate our tips to charity.
Read MoreAlright Pilgrims, not gonna beat around the bush on this one - this is our Thanksgiving Beer. This is the beer we want you to drink on and around Thanksgiving.
Read MoreOur November non-profit helps helpers help even more by filling a critical, and often overlooked, need: transportation.
Read MoreLaura is a life-long artist and former public school art teacher, and is currently the executive director of the Creative Hub. Creative Hub Worcester is a nonprofit organization that aims to provide affordable and accessible opportunities in the Arts to our community with special attention to at-risk and underserved youth.
Read on to learn more about Laura’s journey as an artist, and her crowler can art.
Read MoreAh, pumpkin beer - the on again/off again darling of the craft beer world. For a single category to encompass such whimsy, nostalgia, spite, and ambiguity is no small accomplishment, especially considering some (including ours!) aren’t even brewed with pumpkin.
Read MoreWe know that it isn’t enough to smile and say “all are welcome” - increasing diversity and being more inclusive needs to be an intentional and proactive effort focused on identifying and removing barriers. And it needs to be authentic, not resorting to pandering or tokenism. We don’t know the exact recipe to make this happen, but we thought a good place to start would be trying to increase the representation of women and minorities on our own team.
So when we started hiring our taproom staff last year, we tried something new to us: blind hiring.
Read MoreLiving In Freedom Together (LIFT) is a survivor-led organization comprised of survivors of commercial sexual exploitation (CSE) and allies sensitive to the needs of this vulnerable and marginalized population. Its mission is to end prostitution by creating exit ramps for individuals in prostitution, targeting demand, and changing social norms regarding prostitution and prostituted individuals.
Read MoreUltimate Frisbie Hoar, a collaboration beer (our first!) with Cambridge Brewing Company, is a double IPA (our first!) that we made for The Great Mass Collab fest earlier this month. But the tale of this beer starts years ago, back in the brewery’s early planning days.
Read MoreACE works to help African refugee and immigrant youths that arrive in Worcester with significant gaps in their education. ACE empowers these students to close that gap by providing educational resources, mentorship, and leadership development. Over the years, they’ve helped hundreds of students successfully continue their education. That’s awesome and admirable work.
Read MoreAs a registered Benefit Corporation (and just generally as people), we take our impact on the environment seriously - and our taproom composting system is just one of the practices we’ve put in place to limit our waste.
Read MoreWARL was founded in 1912 by a group of women determined to save overworked and abused farm horses. Today, the organization is dedicated to protecting, caring for, and loving pets throughout Central Massachusetts.
Read MoreUnleash your inner child at Redemption Rock!
This month, we’re supporting the Worcester Youth Center (WYC) with our tipping for charity program. And not only are we donating 100% of our tips in June to WYC, but on June 23, we’re hosting the Worcester Youth Center 25th Anniversary Fundraiser in our taproom.
Read MoreThe Trees, a maple sap altbier, is brewed wih fresh maple sap from the good folks at Pure BS Maple Shack in Auburn, Mass.
FAIR WARNING: it doesn’t taste like pancakes! Here’s why:
Read MoreMay is Mental Health Awareness Month, which makes SHINE the perfect non-profit for us to support this month. Throughout May, 100% of our tips will be collected and donated in support of SHINE.
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