I found this awesome news coming from our neighbor to the west, the land of bad drivers and kind Beer Distributors, on Twitter. Maybe if any WV Beer Distributors are reading this you can step up to the plate and help out too.

From circle3concepts.com

Hops For Helping Haitians, Cavalier Distributing Steps Up Big

Posted by Chris – January 16, 2010

We have all seen photos and video footage of the horrific damage done by the earthquake that occurred in Haiti on Tuesday, January 12th.  The earthquake was a devastating 7.0 on the Richter Scale, with many aftershocks,  14 of which were between magnitudes  of 5.0 to  5.9 .  The earthquake occurred just 16 miles outside Haiti’s captial city, Port-au-Prince.  Major buildings were destroyed and the infrastructure was ruined. This damaged or destroyed many of the normal resources of help for the Haitian people, including a hospital and the United Nations headquarters for Haiti.

While the damage to buildings and infrastructure was bad, it does not even begin to measure up to the human toll of this apocalypse. Daily, through the media, we have been bombarded with stories of the death, injuries, pain, and terror that has been inflicted on the Haitian people. The Red Cross has estimated that over 3 million people have been affected.  In addition, the Red Cross believed that as many as 50,000 people had been killed. Now those estimates have been revised up to 200,000 deaths. Relief efforts are underway, but help cannot come soon enough for the survivors of this disaster.

Cavalier Distributing in Ohio has seen the plight of the suffering people in Haiti and has found a way to help, with your help.  The week of Jan 18-22 Cavalier Distributing will be donating $1.00 the relief efforts in Haiti for each case of craft beer they sell .  Cavalier Distributing is well known for the stellar craft beers they carry from a number of great craft breweries. You can help, by just doing what you would normally do. We already buy and drink a lot of the great craft beers that Cavalier Distributing brings to us.  So this week, take some time to go out and stock up your beer fridge, buy craft beer to share with your friends,  have some craft beer with dinner. Maybe you can afford to do something extra and host a dinner using some stellar beers from Cavalier Distributing’s great lineup in Ohio. Maybe you can’t and you just stock up now with what you would normally get. But either way, you are helping the desperate people in Haiti.

Circle 3 has received two messages reflecting this from two separate individuals with Cavalier Distributing : “The week of Jan 18-22 Cavalier Distributing will be donating $1 from every case of beer sold from our warehouse in the state of Ohio. ” &  “On Cavalier’s side of things, we are going to be donating $1 for every case of beer that we sell next week.  In addition, Cavalier is going to match any donations that our sales staff makes next week as well.”

Here are some of the great craft beer offerings to look for:

Stone Brewing
Two Brothers Brewing Co.
Great Divide
North Coast Brewing
Dogfish Head
Breckenridge Brewery
Weihenstephan
HE’BREW
Mad River Brewing Company
Brew Dog
Bard’s
Mendocino Brewing Company
Boulder Beer Co
Bison Brewing Co
Warbird Brewing Co
Alantic Brewing Co
Shipyard Brewing Co
Sea Dog
Clipper City Brewing Co
Jolly Pumpkin
Hoppin Frog
Thirsty Dog
Sprecher Brewing Company
Southern Star Brewing
Achel
Achouffe
Brouwerij Bosteels
Cantillon
Chapeau
Corsendonk
Delirium
Hanssens
St. Feuillien
Unibroue
Harviestoun
Old Speckled Hen
Augustiner
Einbecker
Berliner Weiss
Gaffel Kolsch
Reissdorf Koelsch

You can get the full listing of Cavalier’s stable of craft beers here:  Cavalier Distributing’s Catalog

Cavalier Distributing is stepping up big to help the survivors of the disaster in Haiti. Craft beer lovers, now it’s your turn.