<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><item href="/newsroom/brewers-specialty-ale-to-help-bc3.html" dsn="blogs"><featured/><pubDate>09/06/2024 11:42:42 AM</pubDate><title>Draft notice: Ale sales to support BC3 underway</title><subtitle>Recon Brewing’s specialty blend to help college's fight against food insecurity</subtitle><description>(Butler, PA) Cheers, Pioneers. Frontier Beer. Pioneer Beer. And, as a tribute to the former Oak Hills Golf Course upon which Butler County Community College has been educating students for nearly 60 years, Oakey-Doke.</description><author/><image-caption>Nathan Bacher, left, an owner of Recon Brewing, points to a 300-gallon boil kettle while explaining beer-making ingredients and equipment to Butler County Community College employees Mikayla Moretti, center, and Jayme Steighner on Tuesday, July 30, 2024, at the company’s location in Butler. Moretti and Steighner are members of BC3’s food security team. Recon Brewing has crafted a unique beer, Graduate Pale Ale – G.P.A. for short –whose sales at the company’s taprooms in Butler, Cranberry Township and Bridgeville will benefit BC3’s Pioneer Pantry.</image-caption><tags><tag>Foundation</tag></tags><image><img src="/_resources/images/newsroom/2024/bc3-gpa-a.jpg" alt="This is a photo of two BC3 employees looking at a brewer in a brewery."/></image></item>