NKY brewery gets in on canning water for Harvey victims
Braxton Brewing Co. sending water to Texas, Louisiana
Braxton Brewing Co. sending water to Texas, Louisiana
Braxton Brewing Co. is putting production on pause to help those in need down south.
The Covington-based brewery said on Thursday, it will use its canning line to can water instead of beer to support Hurricane Harvey flood relief efforts.
"We've always tried to use Braxton as a vehicle for doing good, so we made a few calls to local companies who helped us re-label existing can inventory, pause production and fill (the cans) with filtered drinking water," Jake Rouse, co-founder and CEO of Braxton Brewing Company said in a news release.
Braxton said it will be filling 1,000 cases of 12 oz. cans.
The cans will then be sent to Houston and Louisiana.
Second Harvest Foodbank, in Lafayette, Louisiana, will be distributing the canned water throughout Houston and Louisiana on the brewery's behalf.
On Thursday, Braxton also asks patrons to join them as they donate $1 from each pint and collect relief items.
Braxton joins a list of other breweries across the nation canning water for relief efforts, including the Miller Coors Brewery in Trenton, which started the process at the beginning of summer in partnership with the American Red Cross.