Iron Hill Chestnut Hill Selling Black Lives Matter Inspired Beer

CHESTNUT HILL, PHILADELPHIA — Iron Hill Brewery and Restaurant in Chestnut Hill is offering a new beer in support of the Black Lives Matter movement by donating all proceeds from sales.

The popular brewery chain is releasing the new "Black is Beautiful" stout brew on Aug. 7 at its Chestnut Hill and other locations.

Black is Beautiful is a canned stout beer that is part of a larger collaboration in which participating breweries donate 100 percent of proceeds from its sales to local foundations that support people of color and inclusion.

The beer was launched by Weathered Souls Brewing Company as a way to bring awareness to the injustices that many people of color face daily. Weathered Souls have provided breweries across the country with the recipe for the stout base, allowing breweries the opportunity to put their own creative spin on their recipe.

Iron Hill’s version of is a malty-sweet and highly roasted Imperial Stout with 10 percent alcohol by volume.

Iron Hill will donate all proceeds from this can release to The Urban League of Philadelphia, a local affiliate of the National Urban League, a nonpartisan civil rights organization that has empowered African Americans and other underserved communities for more than a century through housing, employment, entrepreneurship, youth development, health and wellness and advocacy for more than 15,000 children, and families a year.

Black is Beautiful cans will be available in 4-packs for pickup at all Iron Hill locations for $22.

Iron Hill Chestnut Hill is located at 8400 Germantown Ave.