Steve Hindy, Brooklyn Brewery’s co-founder and president, received a special honor at last week’s Craft Brewers Conference in Chicago. He was celebrated with the F.X. Matt Defense of the Small Brewing Industry Award for 2010, as presented by the Brewer’s Association. That’s right. Steve’s a defender! Read all about it below.
Also from the BA, comes the 2010 list of top 50 Craft Breweries. Brooklyn clocks in at number 17. See the whole list here.
Brewers Association honors Brooklyn Brewery’s Steve Hindy at World Beer Cup 2010 in Chicago
From Examiner.com
By William Loob
The Brewers Association, the trade group that represents the interests of craft brewers, honored Steve Hindy, co-founder and president of Brooklyn Brewery with the F.X. Matt Defense of the Small Brewing Industry Award for 2010. Hindy accepted the award last week at the Craft Brewers Conference, in Chicago. The F.X. Matt Award recognizes people distinguished service to the craft beer industry. Hindy has played an active role in regulatory issues throughout his career atBrooklyn Brewery. Among his efforts to benefit the industry, the association noted his testimony before Congress on the effect of state franchise laws on small brewers.
At the end of the conference, Hindy also got to see one of the Brooklyn Brewery entries, Local 2, win the bronze medal in its category in the World Beer Cup competition. He took a moment to share his thoughts with Examiner.com about this year’s conference and the state of the craft beer business today.
Conference attendance was an indicator of the overall health of the craft beer business, he says. “It was the most exciting conference to date. We had 3,400 attending, last year it was about 2,200, and the keynote speaker was a member of Congress,” he says. (That Congressman is Peter DeFazio (D-OR), who was a co-founder of the House Small Brewers Caucus in 2007.) “The enthusiasm for craft beer is starting to take hold in America.”
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