The Black Beer Experience Bridges the Divide Between Breweries and the Black Community
February 22, 2021
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Shani Glapion loves the experience of drinking beer, from the first citrusy sip of a West Coast India Pale Ale down to the conversational buzz of a brewery.
Though the 35-year-old Nashville resident is now a cicerone-certified beer server the first step to becoming a master of beer, or master cicerone Glapion didn’t always know so much about beer. At first, it was just a way for her to spend time with her wife. The couple started using Groupon in 2013 to find tickets to brewery tours, which quickly became a hobby of theirs.