New Belgium and CSUFort Collins is a community that strives to be eco-friendly. The Colorado State University campus is one of the most green University campuses in the nation. New Belgium Brewing Company is predominantly run by wind power, and the company also elects to pay higher electrical energy bills to try and force themselves forward to becoming completely wind powered.
New Belgium is also a large employer in the Fort Collins community, however, New Belgium doesn't run like every other business. At the end of 2012, the company went entirely employee owned. Many of these employees are CSU alumni, including the Media Representative for the company Bryan Simpson, as well as recent journalism graduate Zach Newton. New Belgium even takes on interns, mostly from CSU. New Belgium works closely with the CSU Microbiology program to help finance research that could be beneficial to the company. They also work with fermentation science classes when they start to do their own brewing. |
New Belgium Brewery has given the opportunity to students at Colorado State University to expand their knowledge of brewing and helps them establish creative brewing techniques. New Belgium has employed many alumni in Fort Collins since its creation.
Sarah Vanvlerah, an employee at New Belgium Brewery, pours samples of beer for the locals and tourists who came to the brewery for a free tour. Vanvlerah converses and quizzes her guests with trivia about the brewery.
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Blake Douglas, 23, discusses the process of beer brewing while hundreds of bottles are filled and packaged behind him at the New Belgium Brewery.
Kate Harris, an employee at the Ramskeller, pours a pint of Lips of Faith Oh La La beer Monday. Harris enjoys working for the on campus bar at Colorado State University.
Elizabeth Hornung, 21, enjoys a Lips of Faith Oh La La beer at the Ramskeller Monday before her four-o-clock class. Hornung regularly comes to the Skeller in times when she needs to relax and hang out with friends.