Lowercase Brewing nearly didn’t survive the pandemic. In May 2020, brewer John Marti moved out of his apartment and into the brewery to save money on rent, and the brewery was forced to furlough its entire staff. Though it rebounded well enough to fully reopen, on Wednesday Lowercase announced that it was again closing its taproom, this time permanently, in order to focus on wholesaling and direct-to-consumer sales.
“The brewery is not ending, it’s just changing,” Lowercase owner Chris Smith says. “Right now, the complexity of retail isn’t worth it.”
The main problem, Smith says, is that the surrounding Georgetown neighborhood no longer draws the amount of visitors
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