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THE COUNTRY’S 1st COMBINATION OF MICROBREWERY
+ CENTER FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION
The INBC transcends how a brewery serves a community by being the first in the country to include a center for community transformation. Through craft beer and education, the INBC is a unique model of celebration and dialogue, envisioned to joyfully address the challenges of our time and fuel social change in Missoula, Montana, and beyond.
OUR BEERS & THE PRODUCTION AREA
Imagine Nation Brewing Co. uses a 7-barrel brewing system to produce smaller, artisan batches of beer. With this system, we produce 2 house beers, 4-5 seasonal taps, and occasional higher gravity brewer’s reserve specials. We focus on selling our beer almost entirely out of the taproom in 12oz. specialty glasses and half gallon growlers.
THE INBC CENTER FOR COMMUNITY TRANSFORMATION
In addition to being a place for relaxation and celebration, Imagine Nation Brewing Co. is meant to become a house of dialogue, learning, and understanding. In order to accomplish this, we transcend how a brewery serves a community by being the first in the country to include a separate space designated as a center for community transformation. As a nexus for people from all walks of life, we believe the vision of this intentional combination of brewery and training center will create a common ground for inspiring social change in Missoula, Montana, and beyond.
A SPACE FOR GOOD PEOPLE TO DO GOOD THINGS
We are well aware that Missoula is full of many good people who are already doing good things for the community. Therefore, we offer the Center for Community Transformation as a platform for organizations and businesses to hold their own meetings, workshops, or presentations. The room is equipped with everything community groups might to support their endeavors inside the center. If any groups should need professional facilitation for their meetings, the Imagine Nation owners would be happy to help out. Charges for rental of the space or facilitation services will be available on a sliding scale based on the resources of each respective group. Please consult the Center Rental tab for more information on how to use the space for your own projects.
INBC PROGRAMS
Dialogues
One of the roots of problems in U.S. society stem from the lack of most peoples’ ability to empathically connect with one another. We are taught from a young age to win debates, not to dialogue. The greek root of the word dialogue is dia logos, or “through the word.” For real positive social change to happen, people must understand each other and connect through the word; this does not mean that they have to agree. Part of unity is reconciling differences while honoring diversity. Therefore, one weeknight a month, we will facilitate a one-hour dialogue on different polarizing subjects during which we will guide participants through a process that helps them develop empathy, understanding, and, perhaps, links across divided lines while they share a beer together. Dialogues will be free and open to all who want to attend.
Transformational Educational Workshops
The core of our programs will be integrative trainings that help people build key skills for effecting positive change in their community. Each training will incorporate scientifically-proven experiential practices that ensure the highest levels of learning and the most effective transference of skills from the training center into the community. We will host these trainings one weekend a month. Once operational, these trainings will be two-day, six-hour intensive events and will cost on a sliding scale between $20-$100. With the purchase of the course, participants will receive coupons for two free glasses of beer (i.e. one free beer per day of instruction). Following are the titles of some of the courses that will be offered:
- Mindfulness: The Core of Social Change
- Bridging Divides: Facilitating Coexistence and Social Cohesion
- Consciousness and Conflict Transformation
- Strategic Peace building at the Community Level
- Beyond Healing: A Systemic Approach to Dealing with Life’s Challenges
- Integrative Healing: The Role of Self-Care in Positive Social Change
- Dialogue: Creating Common Ground in Polarized Societies
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HOUSE BEERS
Merging Waters River Ale (ABV: 5.5%, IBU: 25, SRM: 5)
This hybrid, golden ale was designed specifically to imbibe while enjoying our neighboring Clark Fork River. While sipping, reflect on the final paragraph of the story that put MT on the map: “In the end, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it.” This crisp ale is brewed with the finest American and English malt and touched off with noble hops to deliver a clean, refreshing partner with which to look south and contemplate Missoula’s greatest asset.
Freedom Fighter IPA (ABV: 6.8 %, IBU: 65, SRM: 8)
We originally brewed this IPA on the 67th anniversary of the day Mohandas Gandhi was assassinated. To humbly salute the giant of nonviolence and Indian independence, we packed this India Pale Ale with 6 different malts that add a nuanced backbone to the best hops Yakima has to offer. It’s big and bold like the Mahatma, but balanced to reflect his ability to reach across the political spectrum to make positive change that continues to affect millions.
BACKGROUND
Robert Rivers and Fernanda Menna Barreto Krum
The bison is the only animal known to walk towards oncoming storms. Our logo of a bison unifying the map of the world encapsulates the vision of the brewery: to approach the challenges in society in a celebratory way to be a unifying agent of constructive change in Missoula, Montana, and beyond.
For two decades, we have worked in conflict zones around the world to promote peace and healing within communities affected by violence. Based on these experiences, we developed the vision for Imagine Nation Brewing Co. (INBC) with the belief that it can make the process of change accessible and positive for as many people as possible. What we have noticed over the years in a variety of contexts is that social change is generated more effectively when a constructive entity or group exists—in this case a brewery—where individuals feel a sense of belonging while they receive support for building and implementing skills that can better the communities in which they live.
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