Please Fuel Responsibly

All of our events and festivals are meant to be enjoyed by responsible individuals over the age of 21.  No one under the age of 21 is permitted in our events, this includes designated drivers.

As such, we want you to be able to enjoy our events for many years to come, so we have created our ‘Please Fuel Responsibly’ initiative to ensure that you have a safe experience at our festivals.  This initiative applies to all attendees, staff, vendors, and brewery representatives that come to our events.

The ‘Please Fuel Responsibly’ initiative includes:

  1. An anti-drunk driving policy.
  2. A visibly intoxicated persons policy.
  3. A code of conduct and anti-harassment policy.

Any questions regarding these policies should be forwarded to ryan@fueledbyhops.com.

Drunk Driving Policy

We DO NOT encourage any festival attendee, staff member, vendor or brewery representative to drive under the influence of alcohol.  This is not only dangerous to yourself, but to others as well.  We can not stress enough the value using a designated driver or rideshare service to get to and from our events.

If you need help finding a safe ride home, please contact a member of the Fueled By Hops (FBH) staff for assistance finding safe transportation from our events.  

Visibly Intoxicated Persons Policy

We want you to enjoy yourself and the wonderful beers the breweries prepared for you at our festivals, however, we ask that you don’t overdo it.

If any member of our staff, or the venue’s staff, observes that you are overly intoxicated, we will ask you and your party to exit the event (ensuring you have safe transportation home).  No refunds will be issued.

This policy in force for all festival attendees, staff members, vendors, and brewery representatives.

Code of Conduct / Anti-Harassment Policy

(This is an overarching policy to cover all of our public events and social media groups such as Fueled By Hops Community, Fueled By Fitness, and Fueled By Foodies, Instagram, Facebook, and TikTok)

We (Fueled By Hops, LLC) want our events and social media groups to be enjoyed by all, regardless of gender identity, race, sexual orientation, appearance, religion, beer preference, ethnicity, and/or age (must be of legal drinking age to attend)

Any behavior that is deemed to be harassing, abusive, misogynistic, racist, or simply contrary to the above statement, from any attendee and/or member of our staff, will not be tolerated. Violators of our Code of Conduct/Anti-Harassment Policy will removed from the event without a refund and/or removed from our social media groups and blocked by all Fueled By Hops’ social media accounts..

Harassing, abusive, misogynistic, racist behavior defined:

  • Offensive comments about a person’s gender, gender identity and expression, appearance, age, race or religion, disability, mental illness, or neuro(a) typicality.  Includes deliberate mis-gendering of the individual, use of dead words and/or using offensive terms related to gender.
  • Offensive comments about a person’s lifestyle (food choices, overall health, employment, beer choices, glassware choices, etc.)
  • Threatening an individual(s) with violence or inciting violence or inciting an individual to commit violence.  (This incudes telling a individual to “kill” themselves regardless of intention).
  • Intimidating an individual either with verbal comments, physical movements, facial expressions, stalking, or following.  Also includes harassing photography or recording and digital stalking.
  • Inappropriate or unwanted physical or simulated contact with another individual.  This include all physical touch without consent.
  • Sexual attention that is unwanted including but not limited to: grabbing, groping, whistling, and unwanted sexual advances.
  • Continued communication with an individual after requests to cease the conversation.
  • Deliberate “outing” of any aspect of a person’s identity without their consent except as necessary to protect vulnerable people from intentional abuse.
  • Publication of non-harassing private information about an individual.

Reporting Violations of the Code of Conduct/Anti-Harassment Policy

Events:  Report to Ryan Galiotto, Nick Adams or Danielle Holt

Social Groups:  E-mail ryan@fueledbyhops.com or nick@fueledbyhops.com

Enforcement Procedures:
1) We (FBH) will conduct an investigation interviewing parties involved.
2) Action may include: mediation, de-escalation, written warnings, suspension from events/social media groups, eviction from events/social media groups, police report.
3) All incidents will be documented.