Did you know a local microbrewery owner smiles every time you search "coffee near me?"

 

It's no surprise that consumers are desperate for local -- the word itself (especially in regard to what we drink) is synonymous with high quality, enthusiasm, and personality. Local microbreweries and coffee shops are two sides of the same coin; warm, welcoming, and when done right, are the perfect way to either kick off the day or end it. As microbreweries look to expand not only their client base but their hours of operation, branching into coffee is the ideal next step. 

The Tap Dance, a microbrewery and café nestled in the heart of New Bern, NC is sure to meet every daily beverage desire. The Tap Dance is unique by offering a variety of craft beers such as house-brewed IPA's and gluten-free options. If you're in the mood for the brewery atmosphere, visit The Tap Dance all day for a up of joe - or the recently popular lavender shaken flat white.

Each ingredient in our lagars and lattes is locally sourced, just like we are. As New Bernians, it's important to support our local farmers and coffee roasters. Buying local is something that was can do from our vegetable side at the dinner table to necklace we gift our mother in law for her birthday. When you buy local you impact an individual. You provide for the food their family puts on the dinner table that night. You don't just buy a product, you fuel a dream. 

Buying local means choosing your community over a corporation. When you put revenue into your community, it in time it gives it back! When a customer chooses to buy a beer from us at The Tap Dance, or even hang out with us for a little while during a remote work day - that customer is choosing a relationship  over convenience! 

Next time you search "coffee near me," make sure you're choosing local. Because when you do, it's making one microbrewer owner very hoppy! 

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It's all about me right?

Blog Post #1

Privilege. Privilege is an unearned access given to some. It is an advantage, an immunity, given to one societal group over another. It is invisible to those who have it and clear as mud to those who don't. 

Understanding me begins with what understanding privilege looks like. I grew up with two loving, happily married white, heterosexual parents. That was privilege. I went to private school and never payed for gas in my car that my parents bought me. Again, Privilege. I identify as a white, straight, educated, woman. While woman face disadvantages on many playing fields, having all the advantages stated above, my margin becomes smaller and smaller!

Privilege is important to acknowledge, but so are peoples stories. From that information you wouldn't know that my dad was a first generation college student who put himself through school with no help from his single mom. You wouldn't know that my mother's parents fought rural poverty in small town North Carolina until finally having enough money to send my grandmother to school, the first in her family to attend college. You wouldn't know that I was bullied relentlessly in high school because of the choices I made with my own body. You might not know that my aunt committed suicide when I was 13 and that same year I walked through a similar crisis with my best friend. 

I am privileged, but that doesn't make my perspective any less worthy of being heard. What it does do is equip me with responsibility. This is a responsibility to amplify the voices of others, the voices of those without my same privileges. 

I learned this from my parents and a wonderful old friend. Actually, that "old friend" was my ex-boyfriends mom. She was definitely the best thing to come out of the relationship. We pick up pieces of people as we travel along our own way. What do with all these pieces? 

For some it weighs us down, maybe your pieces leave you confused or even stagnant. For others, the pieces they hold could empower them, taking the pieces they have from others and either mending their own wounds or someone's. Some take their pieces and create art, they give the pieces a new life. 

I've decided that empowering others to use their pieces is one of my gifts. I thrive in leadership and the development of personal enrichment for others