Kate Avery is Director of Marketing & Sales at Brewery Vivant, a brewpub, restaurant, and microbrewery in Grand Rapids.  Brewery Vivant is also the winner of the Michigan Grown, Michigan Great Restaurant Full Service Award.  Listen as Kate talks about how her history background helps her tell the rich and compelling story of craft beer.

She shares about:

Brewery Vivant’s triple bottom line approach to business

How they look for the best ingredients, talk to growers, and work to understand the farmers’ growing and raising processes

The explosion of hop farms in Michigan

How the ocean can’t compare to Lake Michigan

Her path to Brewery Vivant

How people express their talent through food and drink   

Taking pride in our state’s agriculture

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