BIERWAX redux - How the NYC Craft Beer bar is surviving and innovating in the Covid bar shutdown

Update: 2020-06-10

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I catch up with Chris Maestro, owner of Brooklyn Craft Beer + HipHop DJ bar BIERWAX, voted #5 best beer bar in the US in the annual USA Today poll this year, to find out the innovative ways his business is surviving 2.5 months and counting into the Covid19 bar and restaurant shutdown.

Links mentioned in Podcast:

BIERWAX Beer delivery + Merch Shop ;

My April 2019 Chris interview SPOTIFY and APPLE ;

Bierwax BLM IG Post ;

Harlem Hops New York Times piece

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BIERWAX redux - How the NYC Craft Beer bar is surviving and innovating in the Covid bar shutdown

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BIERWAX redux - How the NYC Craft Beer bar is surviving and innovating in the Covid bar shutdown

BIERWAX redux - How the NYC Craft Beer bar is surviving and innovating in the Covid bar shutdown