The Modern Times Beer Blog

To our fellow small business owners and operators,

We are tremendously proud of what we've built at Modern Times over the last six years. We've become a multi-state juggernaut in our industry, with production north of 68,000 barrels in 2018—over 800% of what we’d initially projected to produce in our 5th year, which is, to use a technical term, bonkers. In short, we've reached a scale that requires a new approach, and—rather than involve traditional private equity or other large investors—we’re choosing to give our fans a chance to invest in the company that they’ve done so much to help build.

WE HAVE CIDER! We’ll be sharing the first offering from this new batch of fermented radness in January’s online special release sale, but we wanted to share a bit more about our cider-making inspiration, process, and plans for the future with all of you fine denizens of the internet. We had Luke, our Barrel Program Manager & all-around good dude, write out some thoughts. Here’s his rundown:

We recently wrote a letter to our congressional representatives in the interest of continuing to make beer and also not dying. If you’d like to do the same, you can find out who to write to RIGHT HERE.

To learn more about this crucial issue, you can check out all of the badass work the Sunrise Movement is currently doing HERE.