https://padlet.com/hmpbrad6/karasdvkofz8aerx Wah Gwaan Brewing Company en-us 2021-09-18 01:24:16 UTC 2026-03-05 18:33:09 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.net/icons/png/1f1ef-1f1f2.png hmpbrad6 https://padlet.com/hmpbrad6/karasdvkofz8aerx/wish/1749844992 Owner - Harsha

Location - Arvada, CO, United States]]> 2021-09-18 01:34:41 UTC https://padlet.com/hmpbrad6/karasdvkofz8aerx/wish/1749844992 hmpbrad6 https://padlet.com/hmpbrad6/karasdvkofz8aerx/wish/1749846876 Harsha, a Jamaican-American, and her fiancé Jesse set up their company 'Wah Gwaan Brewing Company' for the purpose of bringing Jamaican beer and culture to the community of Colorado, where they currently live. ]]> 2021-09-18 01:36:52 UTC https://padlet.com/hmpbrad6/karasdvkofz8aerx/wish/1749846876 hmpbrad6 https://padlet.com/hmpbrad6/karasdvkofz8aerx/wish/1749848907 Loan Terms

• Length: 42 months
• Repayment Schedule: Monthly
• Disbursed Date: September 28, 2020
• Funding Model: Fixed
• Currency exchange loss: N/A
• Endorsed by Trustee: Colorado Lending Source
• Is borrower paying interest: No
• Risk rating: Unrated

13% of the loan has been repaid

Date retrieved from KIVA website

]]> 2021-09-18 01:39:07 UTC https://padlet.com/hmpbrad6/karasdvkofz8aerx/wish/1749848907 hmpbrad6 https://padlet.com/hmpbrad6/karasdvkofz8aerx/wish/1749850907 The Purpose of the loan for the 'Wah Gwaan Brewing Company,' is to be able to generate enough funds, in order to be able to purchase brewery equipment and produce their unique Jamaican beer.]]> 2021-09-18 01:41:16 UTC https://padlet.com/hmpbrad6/karasdvkofz8aerx/wish/1749850907 hmpbrad6 https://padlet.com/hmpbrad6/karasdvkofz8aerx/wish/1749853244 The 'Wah Gwaan Brewing Company' has the potential to meet the people category of the triple bottom line. They express a willingness to become a strong partner to their local community. More specifically targeting Jamaican immigrants and Jamaican-Americans, offering a place that feels a bit like home for them. 

The 'Wah Gwaan Brewing company' has offered the chance for local businesses to come in decorate their brewery, by allowing artists to draw large canvases on their wall. This portray the facts that the 'Wah Gwaan Brewing company,' wants to help out in the community by offering local artists the chance for work. A lot of brewing companies, usually would do there own interior design, so this shows the willingness of the brewery to give job opportunities to the local community.

Furthermore, the 'Wah Gwaan Brewing Company' has been engaged in promoting local businesses, especially food trucks, by holding events for them to come set up by their brewery. This is a great ay for local business to gain brand exposure. The 'Wah Gwaan Brewing Company' also offers events such as Canvas and Cocktail night, which offers a social event for the community to be able to come and socialise.

By the 'Wah Gwaan Brewing Company' offering their unique Jamaican beer and cuisine, it brings that idea of diversity into the community, by offering a piece of Jamaican culture to the people of Colorado.

The 'Wah Gwaan Brewing Company' are showing a clear desire to give back to the community and create a strong connection within, while also adding that diversity element as well. ]]> 2021-09-18 01:43:52 UTC https://padlet.com/hmpbrad6/karasdvkofz8aerx/wish/1749853244 hmpbrad6 https://padlet.com/hmpbrad6/karasdvkofz8aerx/wish/1749854893 The 'Wah Gwaan Brewing Company' is already showing a strong desire to give back to the community. A clear CSR initiative of the Brewing Company is to be a strong partner with the community. There are more potential ways, that they could achieve this.

A way in which the 'Wah Gwaan Brewing Company' can build off supporting local businesses, such as giving local food trucks exposure, is by using products from local malt and hops growers. 'This will increase the viability of Colorado's agricultural industry' (Dingwall, 2021).

Another way in which the Brewing Company could go about this, is by expressing a specific cause that they support, through their website or social media page. On their website they show a desire to create social change within the industry. They could hold events like Renegade brewing company did, by hosting an event 'called "Maxfunds Mondays" where $1 of a specific beer goes to the Maxfund animal shelter' (Phipps, 2014), but create it around social change.

Moreover, The 'Wah Gwaan Brewing Company' conveys its desire to create that strong connection with the community, but yet they don't invest any money back into the community A good example of a way 'Wah Gwaan Brewing Company' can invest back into the community is by taking an approach like Great divide Brewery, whom 'donate all of their proceedings raised from any tasters purchased in their tap rooms to a rotating list of local nonprofits' (Phipps, 2014).

Finally, the 'Wah Gwaan Brewing Company' needs to meet the needs of all their stakeholders. A stakeholder whom will be very important to them, will be their employees, so it is very important that they offer fair wages and have humane working conditions in their brewery. ]]> 2021-09-18 01:45:30 UTC https://padlet.com/hmpbrad6/karasdvkofz8aerx/wish/1749854893 hmpbrad6 https://padlet.com/hmpbrad6/karasdvkofz8aerx/wish/1749871850 The 'Wah Gwaan Brewing Company' has the potential to meet the plant category of the triple bottom line. Both Harsha's and Jesse's 15 years experience in work and education in the fields of sustainability and energy, will play a big part in potential practices that will help minimise environmental impact. They have stressed that they want to integrate sustainable practices throughout there brewery.  ]]> 2021-09-18 02:04:15 UTC https://padlet.com/hmpbrad6/karasdvkofz8aerx/wish/1749871850 hmpbrad6 https://padlet.com/hmpbrad6/karasdvkofz8aerx/wish/1749874146 It is clear that the 'Wah Gwaan Brewing Company' want to implement a sustainable approach among their brewery. However, from their website and page in KIVA, it seems that they have not implemented any sustainable approaches yet. Below are some ideas and approaches that the 'Wah Gwaan Brewing Company' could take in order to meet the planet category of the triple bottom line.]]> 2021-09-18 02:06:30 UTC https://padlet.com/hmpbrad6/karasdvkofz8aerx/wish/1749874146 hmpbrad6 https://padlet.com/hmpbrad6/karasdvkofz8aerx/wish/1749907126 The 'Wah Gwaan Brewing Company' has the potential to meet the Profit category of the triple bottom line. All companies goals are to be as profitable as possible, but when it comes to the triple bottom line, being profitable has to have no detrimental effect on the people and the planet.  

The brewing companies approach to being diverse, can have profitable outcomes through tourism. Offering a mix between Jamaican and Colorado style beer will attract different customers within the community and out of state. They will attract Jamaican-Americans, through there Jamaican beer and also Americans through offering Colorado styled beer. Tourism will be good for the local economy as it will also benefit other local businesses as well.

Furthermore, by the 'Wah Gwaan Brewing Company' hosting various food trucks on different nights, is a good way for people and profit to play hand in hand. As explained hosting the food trucks allows for these food trucks to gain some exposure, but it also bring in new potential customers for the brewing company, due to the fact that beer and food go hand in hand. Customer from both parties will want to experience both products from each company, which should hopefully build larger customer bases for both companies, which should hopefully lead to more purchases of products. More revenue generated more money that will go back into the local economy through tax.]]> 2021-09-18 02:42:37 UTC https://padlet.com/hmpbrad6/karasdvkofz8aerx/wish/1749907126 hmpbrad6 https://padlet.com/hmpbrad6/karasdvkofz8aerx/wish/1749907968 There are more potential ways of the 'Wah Gwaan Brewing Company' becoming profitable while taking into the requirements of people and the planet.

Breweries are a great social hub for the community. It is a great place to be able to go after work or even for a work event. By 'Wah Gwaan Brewing Company' advertising opportunities for companies to hold events at their facility, through their website or social media page, this should hopefully attract more customers through these local businesses. If the businesses needs are meet with there event, this should hopefully build brand loyalty and hopefully enhance the 'Wah Gwaan Brewing Company' reputation. The more their companies name gets spread, the more potential customers that will be brought and purchase their products. 

The 'Wah Gwaan Brewing Company' has shown a strong desire to link people and profit together, but not so much profit and planet. According to Forbes in 2018 a study found that the majority of U.S beer drinkers would pay more for a sustainably-produced beer. If the 'Wah Gwaan Brewing Company' where able to implement some of the sustainable ideas mentioned in the people category, this could result in them being more appealing to customers and result in an increase in demand for their product, resulting in more revenue generated. A big factor in their sustainability approach, would be providing ranchers with the spoiled seeds, as this would cut costs for landfill waste and the transportation of the waste, as the ranchers would sort it out for them. The lower the costs, the higher chances of profitability.]]> 2021-09-18 02:43:35 UTC https://padlet.com/hmpbrad6/karasdvkofz8aerx/wish/1749907968 hmpbrad6 https://padlet.com/hmpbrad6/karasdvkofz8aerx/wish/1749919564 According to Forbes a brewing company that took the approach of buying product from a local small-scale malt and hops producer was Mountain Tap Brewery, in Colorado. This help contribute to the reduction of that companies carbon footprint due to the fact that the ingredients, did not have to be transported so far. This is an approach that the 'Wah Gwaan Brewing Company' could take, as it reduces the carbon footprint and ties into helping support the community by buying produce from the local malt and hop producer.

]]> 2021-09-18 02:56:01 UTC https://padlet.com/hmpbrad6/karasdvkofz8aerx/wish/1749919564 hmpbrad6 https://padlet.com/hmpbrad6/karasdvkofz8aerx/wish/1749931861 Another approach which Mountain tap Brewery have adopted, which 'Wah Gwaan Brewing Company' could adopt too, is Mountain tap Brewery 'give there spent grain to local ranchers who then feed the used grain to their pigs' (Dingwall, 2021). This helps keep the spent grain from being tossed into landfill sights. This could be a possible approach for 'Wah Gwaan Brewing Company' because if they are able to generate the funds needed for their brewing equipment, then it will be a perfect way to 'recycle' their spent grain. It is also a good way to interact will local ranchers within the community.]]> 2021-09-18 03:07:27 UTC https://padlet.com/hmpbrad6/karasdvkofz8aerx/wish/1749931861 hmpbrad6 https://padlet.com/hmpbrad6/karasdvkofz8aerx/wish/1749938423 The final sustainable approach that the 'Wah Gwaan Brewing Company' could take is to use renewable energy. According to Craft brewing business, there are a handful of breweries that are now operating on 100% renewable energy. Breweries such as 'Ninkasi brewery' have installed on-site solar rays, while breweries such as 'Odell Brewing' have installed roof top solar panels. The possible use of renewable energy for 'Wah Gwaan Brewing Company' could be a key approach when trying to conduct a sustainable method when it comes to brewing their Jamaican beer. ]]> 2021-09-18 03:13:58 UTC https://padlet.com/hmpbrad6/karasdvkofz8aerx/wish/1749938423 hmpbrad6 https://padlet.com/hmpbrad6/karasdvkofz8aerx/wish/1749950269 2021-09-18 03:27:10 UTC https://padlet.com/hmpbrad6/karasdvkofz8aerx/wish/1749950269 hmpbrad6 https://padlet.com/hmpbrad6/karasdvkofz8aerx/wish/1750514284 Crowell, C. (2015, March 12). Eight ways breweries are helping the environment. Craft Brewing Business. https://www.craftbrewingbusiness.com/business-marketing/8-ways-breweries-helping-environment/]]> 2021-09-18 14:56:26 UTC https://padlet.com/hmpbrad6/karasdvkofz8aerx/wish/1750514284 hmpbrad6 https://padlet.com/hmpbrad6/karasdvkofz8aerx/wish/1750515481 Dingwall, K. (2021, March 25). How Craft Brewers Are Embracing Sustainability. Forbes. https://www.forbes.com/sites/katedingwall/2021/03/14/how-craft-brewers-are-embracing-sustainability/?sh=3672713339a8]]> 2021-09-18 14:57:26 UTC https://padlet.com/hmpbrad6/karasdvkofz8aerx/wish/1750515481 hmpbrad6 https://padlet.com/hmpbrad6/karasdvkofz8aerx/wish/1750517923 Crowell, C. (2015, March 12). Eight ways breweries are helping the environment. Craft Brewing Business. https://www.craftbrewingbusiness.com/business-marketing/8-ways-breweries-helping-environment/]]> 2021-09-18 14:59:18 UTC https://padlet.com/hmpbrad6/karasdvkofz8aerx/wish/1750517923 hmpbrad6 https://padlet.com/hmpbrad6/karasdvkofz8aerx/wish/1750520842 2021-09-18 15:01:43 UTC https://padlet.com/hmpbrad6/karasdvkofz8aerx/wish/1750520842 hmpbrad6 https://padlet.com/hmpbrad6/karasdvkofz8aerx/wish/1750640253 2021-09-18 16:49:08 UTC https://padlet.com/hmpbrad6/karasdvkofz8aerx/wish/1750640253