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Finnegans is a beer brewed in Minnesota, and is the fifth largest beer brand. Finnegans is a completely non-profit company.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Finnegans: turning beer into food for 12 years )〕 All proceeds are donated to the The Finnegans Community Fund〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Finnegans Irish Amber )〕 where one of the main focuses is to feed the hungry.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Finnegans Charitable Beer Company - Drink Beer & Do Good )〕 Their mission statement is, "Turning beer into food."〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= About Us )〕〔 Finnegans bottles are currently brewed at Summit Brewing Company in St. Paul, Minnesota, and has been through a partnership since 2003.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Supporting our local community )〕 12 oz cans, which were introduced in 2013, are brewed and bottled at Third Street Brewhouse in Coldspring, Minnesota.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Finnegans Now Available in 12oz Cans )〕 ==History== In 1997, Jacquie Berglund (who would later become founder and CEO) moved back to Minnesota and her friend Kieran Folliard (founder of 2 Gingers Irish Whiskey and Kieren's Irish Pub in Minneapolis, Minnesota)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Kieran Folliard planning small business hub in Northeast )〕 offered her a job as the director of marketing.〔 While working with Folliard, she got the idea that it would be wonderful if they were able to sell beer and use the money from it for a worthy cause.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Finnegans: Mission BeerPossible )〕 Folliard sold Berglund his part of what at the time was called "Kieran’s Irish Potato Ale" for $1, this would eventually become Finnigans. The IRS, however, disagreed that a beer company could be a non-profit as their primary work involved no charity. So Berglund set up Finnegans the beer company, which donanted all profits to the Finnegans Community Fund.〔 She was the only employee of Finnegans, up until 2009. Although she did have the assistance of some volunteers, and also did quite a bit of volunteering on her own.〔 In 2006, Berglund again partnered with Summit brewer Damian McConn to create the Dead Irish Poet.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Finnegans to Release Dead Irish Poet )〕 This beer received 260 kickstarter donations to help bring it to reality and add a third option to Finnegans drinkers. Finnegans now distributes to Minnesota, North & South Dakota, Montana, Iowa, and Wisconsin; where all profits are used locally within the area where the beer was purchased.〔〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Interview: Finnegans' CEO Jacquie Berglund on business, benevolence and beer )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Finnegans is sending its beer — and donations — to Iowa )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Finnegans」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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