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Garage Project Founder Peter Gillespie and Deaf Community Member Label Designer Ryan Cassidy with the new Garage Project beer for NZSL week, Talk To The Hand.
Garage Project has worked with the deaf community for the second year in a row to create a new beer.
Talk to the Hand 2020 was created as part of New Zealand Sign Language Week (NZSL), which is organized by Deaf Aotearoa and runs from September 21-27.
Label designer Ryan Cassidy is a member of the brewery production team and the deaf community.
“It’s very important to me to have a beer brewed not just for NZSL week but specifically for the deaf community,” Cassidy said.
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Garage Project has worked with the deaf community for the second year in a row to create a new beer, Talk to the Hand 2020.
The beer is a dry, unfiltered lager, made from New Zealand-grown hops.
The label worked with many hidden meanings and inside jokes. Two main topics were damage to the hand and how valuable they are to deaf people.
“The eyes and the mouth of the hands represent our voices, our sounds.”
To the public, “crazy and great beers” were a big part of Project Garage.
“But for us who work here, people are also a big part of the Garage Project. We are a big loving family of rebels, misfits, and people who like to do things differently. “
The beer is now on sale in taverns across the country, and in garageproject.co.nz, along with opportunities to practice NZSL at select locations.
