Bindle-stiff Beer

Welcome to a new world. A new chapter in your life begins today. If you are sad, we will make you happy. If you are lonely, you will find friends. Yes, of course you can smoke. Here, we've got a light for you. If you're going to join us on this wild ride of life, you're going to need some supplies. That's where we come in.

This blog is for the autonomous artisan brewer that finds meaning and value in the local production of products of inebriation. We feel that autonomous brewing affirms and embodies the spirit of a cooperative worker-run economy. Bindle-stiff beer is about drinking the fruits of your own labor.

The affirmation of brewer autonomy is also the affirmation of the labor power of all brewers. One beer expresses many labors. One brew is the apotheosis of thousands of years of the refinement of capacities and tastes that we valorize by close study, duplication, and transformation at every stage of the brewing process.

For this operation we choose the name Bindle-stiff to reflect the ingenuity and talent of the hobos and the tramps of the Industrial Workers of the World. Throughout the American West, these migrant workers of the early 20th century owned nothing but their own labor power and lived by virtue of their knack to survive and to circulate among the networks of care they developed within the union. This is the spirit of our brewing effort.

Bindle-stiff beer is a worker-owned brewery. The workers make beer they like. And then they drink it. If you happen to find us, and like our beer, you are welcome to join us.

Ursa & Walter Kurtz
Brewmasters