Stepping Up: Newport Craft brewing up donations from sales to help hospitality workers

James Bessette

04/22/2020

NEWPORT CRAFT BREWING & Distilling Co. will have a portion of its beer and spirits sales benefiting the Rhode Island Hospitality Employee Relief Fund to help hospitality workers who have been displaced due to the COVID-19 pandemic. CEO Brendan O'Donnell, pictured, said the current impact on the hospitality industry as a result of the pandemic has been 'devastating.' / COURTESY NEWPORT CRAFT BREWING & DISTILLING CO. — NEWPORT CRAFT BREWING & Distilling Co. is allocating a portion of its beer and spirits sales to benefit the Rhode Island Hospitality Employee Relief Fund to help hospitality workers who have been displaced due to the COVID-19 pandemic. CEO Brendan O'Donnell, pictured, said the current impact on the hospitality industry as a result of the pandemic has been 'devastating.' / COURTESY NEWPORT CRAFT BREWING & DISTILLING CO.

NEWPORT – Virtually every city and town across the globe is facing its share of challenges in having to indefinitely shut down its respective economies in order to stop the ongoing spread of COVID-19. For the municipality known as the “City by the Sea,” its livelihood – and the livelihoods of all of the hospitality…