Who is CBW?
Community Beer Works has been brewing quality, award-winning beer in Buffalo, NY since 2012.
Our goal is to foster a sense of togetherness and place, enriching our communities and bringing people together through the love of great beer. CBW’s foundation is firmly cemented in the City of Good Neighbors, but we work hard to be an integral part of every community that welcomes us.
Build community in all that you do and good things happen!
Meet CBW!
Chris Smith
Co-Founder, Guy Who Does the Stuff
CBW Beer Selects 🍻
Our OG, our first, our classic tried and true, Frank American Pale Ale!
Operations & Finance
Justin Frost
Director of Operations
CBW Beer Selects 🍻
The best year-round brown ale ever brewed, The Whale!
Brewing & Packaging
Ryan Demler
Director of Brewing Operations
CBW Beer Selects 🍻
Dreizehn, a dynamite German-Style Pilsner from our Hydraulic Hearth brewstation.
Robert Turley
Head Brewer
CBW Beer Selects 🍻
The Whale (a perfect brown ale for all seasons and reasons), and bourbon barrel-aged Bindlestiff Barleywine.
Vandra Ruppel
Head Brewer at Hydraulic Hearth
CBW Beer Selects 🍻
Ein Bier Bitte Hefeweizen and The Whale (it’s wonderful to make and enjoy!).
Justin Daugherty
Packaging & Warehouse Manager
CBW Beer Selects 🍻
2020 GABF gold-medal winning The Snow Imperial Stout, and Gose With Strawberry & Lemon Sour Ale.
Chris ”Pepper” Jones
Lead Cellarman
CBW Beer Selects 🍻
GABF bronze-winning That IPA, Interrobang IPA and Dude Incredible Sour Stout with Raspberries.
Sales, Marketing & Advertising
David “Geech” Giczkowski
Director of Sales
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Our big, aromatic and robust DIPAs, Thick & Sticky and Fat Rips, and The Whale Brown Ale.
Chris Groves
Marketing Director
CBW Beer Selects 🍻
Import Export Export-Style Stout, Interrobang IPA, and Gose With Mixed Berry Sour Ale.
Andrew Kulaszewski
Sales
CBW Beer Selects 🍻
Anything sour!