The Coronavirus Diaries

On March 16, 2020, Oregon's Governor Kate Brown shut the state down for a novel coronavirus that was spreading like wildfire. That shutdown lasted, in various forms, for the next fifteen months. The Coronavirus Diaries documented the real-time efforts of Oregon's breweries to survive this ordeal. Regular dispatches from five brewers and infrequent reports from several more informed readers of how they managed to survive. In more than forty reports over that span, they describe their challenges, worries, and often clever solutions. It is a remarkable document of resilience in an impossible time.