June 12, 2023
MILWAUKEE — Blue & Gold Brewing LLC, a student-run industry mission introduced as a part of an undergraduate implemented finding out program in Marquette College’s School of Trade Management, is partnering with Stone Creek Espresso—an area “farm to cup” espresso roastery for over 30 years—to broaden a Marquette-affiliated espresso product to be launched in fall 2023.
Blue & Gold Brewing was once shaped in 2022 and partnered with 3 Milwaukee-area craft breweries to liberate ’77 Golden Ale on Feb. 4, Nationwide Marquette Day. The collaborative espresso venture, which is able to come with espresso mix variety, branding and advertising and marketing, gross sales, and distribution, will start later this yr with an expected release simply sooner than the iciness vacation season.
“Marquette is happy not to best increase its student-run industry mission portfolio, however to spouse with an industry-leading and mission-aligned group in Stone Creek Espresso,” mentioned John Knapp, government director of Innovation Alley, Marquette’s cross-campus innovation accelerator. “Stone Creek is a Qualified B-Company, which indicates its values and moral management, which align with the undertaking of Marquette Trade. We stay up for this collaboration.”
Stone Creek Espresso has been a espresso spouse of Marquette for just about two decades and the brand new mission aligns with the corporate’s philosophy.
“Tasks like this fit our ‘By no means Forestall Studying’ motto completely,” mentioned Drew Pond, director of construction at Stone Creek Espresso. “Growing alternatives for finding out and expansion round espresso is a part of our undertaking commentary. We are overjoyed that the crew at the back of Blue & Gold would select to paintings with us as a espresso information, useful resource and spouse.”
In a first-of-its-kind pilot program, Blue & Gold Brewing LLC introduced with plans for a four-person crew of undergraduate leaders to supervise manufacturing each and every yr. The scholars are considering each side of the industry: main marketplace analysis, product variety and naming, provide chain and logistics, finance, graphic design, promoting, advertising and marketing, distribution, and entrepreneurial/start-up processes. For ’77 Golden Ale, the taking part breweries brewed the beer and treated all operational facets of the collaboration, together with prison and regulatory compliance issues.
Blue & Gold Ventures is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit group that amplifies and speeds up innovation and engagement to increase Marquette’s undertaking past conventional college barriers. Blue & Gold Ventures is pushed to ship sustainable price for the college through embracing new and collaborative strategies of educating, finding out, analysis and repair.
About Marquette College
Marquette College is a Catholic, Jesuit college situated close to the guts of downtown Milwaukee that gives a complete vary of majors in 11 nationally and across the world known schools and faculties. Throughout the formation of hearts and minds, Marquette prepares our 11,100 undergraduate, graduate, doctoral {and professional} scholars to steer, excel and function brokers of certain trade. And, we ship effects. Ranked within the best 20% of nationwide universities, Marquette is known for its undergraduate educating, innovation and profession preparation because the sixth-best college within the nation for process placement. Our focal point on pupil good fortune and immersive, personalised finding out reviews encourages scholars to suppose severely and have interaction with the arena round them. When scholars graduate with a Marquette stage, they’re really ready and referred to as to Be The Distinction.
About Kevin Conway
Kevin is the affiliate director for college conversation within the Administrative center of College Family members. Touch Kevin at (414) 288-4745 or kevin.m.conway@marquette.edu.
