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Fredericksburg brewery crafts limited-edition beer to encourage census participation

Beer released by Spencer Devon in Fredericksburg whose name aims to encourage participation in the 2020 census.

15/07/2020

According to the star exponent

The U.S. Census Bureau and a downtown Fredericksburg brewery want people to come to their senses about the need to fill out the 2020 Census form.

Fredericksburg’s participation rate lags behind that of other localities in the George Washington Regional Commission, and George Millsaps, partnership specialist in the Bureau’s Philadelphia regional office, said he was at a loss to figure out why and how to encourage people to comply.

“I was sitting in Spencer Devon Brewery off duty and looking at the different names they came up with for the different beers. When I saw that, I was like, those are cool names. Wouldn’t it be cool if there was a census beer, and you had some cool census name beer?” he said.

Read more at source:  star exponent

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