The Collective: A Black-Owned Brewery and Beer Companies Are Changing the Region’s Beer Landscape

The region’s Black-owned beer companies are coming together to share their brews and support one another.

Elliott Johnson of Soul Mega Beer Company and Eamoni Tate-Collier of Urban Garden Brewing Credit: Darrow Montgomery, via Washington City Paper.

They call themselves “the collective” and in the informal group are many firsts. Montgomery County’s first and only Black-owned beer brand. The first woman-owned Black beer brand in D.C. history. The first Black-owned brewery in Charles County, which is also the only brick and mortar Black-owned brewery in Maryland and the D.C. metro region.

“And we do not wish to be the only ones,” Eugene Lott, Patuxent Brewing Company co-owner and taproom manager, tells Washington City Paper.

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