Friday Beer Review: Rock The Mike: The Freeman Brainefit
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As you hopefully read here over the last few weeks, we held a benefit for Flying Dog employee Mike Freeman, who has GBM (Glioblastoma multiforme) – an advanced and particularly nasty form of Brain Cancer. Mike is a staple of the local Denver punk scene, as the frontman of Gina Go Faster. Called Rock The Mike: The Freeman Brainefit, we organized a huge party with a single goal: to raise as much money possible for Mike. And we were pretty damn successful, raising over $19,000 to support Mike in his fight.
Did any of you come? I hope so, i was a great time that helped out someone in need in our community. If not, you missed a great opportunity to help.
Employees of Flying Dog, both current and past, joined together to give a lot of time to this event. We solicited our Craft Brewer friends at Breckenridge and Great Divide to donate beer and their time. And they came through. Together we poured about 30 kegs of beer to the hundreds of people who showed up and we all donated our tips for the evening to Mike. The night was pretty amazing. A bunch of local punk bands played throughout the night.
But the thing I found the most compelling was how local breweries came together to help out one of our own in need. The Colorado Craft Beer community is a very special one. We may be 50+ companies all pushing our own product, but the Craft Beer Fraternity (for the most part) all get along with each other and can play nicely. We all understand the commitment that we all put into our companies and our beer. We’re honored to have such great friends in other breweries (plus it’s nice to be able to do beer trades with these guys, but I digress). What other industries can say that?
Apple and Microsoft? Fat Chance.
Republicans and Democrats? As if.
The Design Community? No, generally designers shit on other designers’ work.
The Denver Egotist’s mission is to help Denver suck less, not just the Denver design community. It sucks what Mike Freeman is going through, but through my hard work and the hard work of his friends, we made Denver suck a little less last Saturday, too.
Having helped out someone who needed help was a powerful experience. I would ask you people to think about helping out people in need, too. Whether it’s volunteering your time at a food bank, donating money to your favorite charity, dropping loose change in the “Hickenlooper Homeless Parking Meters” or just helping an old lady cross the street, do your part to make this community we live in suck just a little less.
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