Bats in the Beer Garden

This article originally appeared in the March/April 2025 issue of Zymurgy Magazine

By Ron Minkoff

You like bats? Do you like pouring homebrew for people who are fans of bats?

The Hogtown Brewers homebrew club down in Gainesville, Fla. goes batty each October for the opportunity to show off their brewing chops to bat fans and help raise funds for a unique nonprofit organization in their area: the Lubee Bat Conservancy. The story of how this evolved could be a guide to how other homebrew clubs can help a local nonprofit they favor raise some extra cha-ching. Philanthropy is your homebrewing supwer power!

Access the full article in the March/April 2025 Zymurgy magazine.