Colorado brewer travels to Ukraine to help war-torn breweries

• So he reached out to Ukrainian craft brewers online and asked how he could help. They said come to Ukraine and make a beer.

What's happening: Earlier this month, he went — crossing the Polish border just before midnight alone on foot with a suitcase full of Outer Range beer and a big box of U.S.-grown mosaic hops.

• He woke up in Lviv to air sirens but found "a defiant city going about their day as normal & refusing to bend to fear," he wrote on Instagram.
• He drove to Rivne, three hours northeast, to brew a double IPA dry-hopped with mosaic with PZDK and Zen, breweries that relocated from eastern Ukraine amid the Russian bombardment, he said.

What he's saying: "The craft beer market is the same [in Ukraine] as everywhere — more expensive to make than big beer, and most disposable income since the war began has dried up," Cleghorn wrote after his trip. "Until their economy comes back, a great way to support Ukrainian craft brewers is to simply buy their beer."

What to watch: Outer Range is working to get shipments of Ukrainian beer to the United States and hopes to pour the beer from its taps in Frisco soon.