Magic Hat Brewing Company and HeadCount, a voter-registration organization, have partnered to promote political discussion, education and voter registry where democracy was born, in America’s restaurants and pubs. Printers Row Wine Shop is to participate October 2 at 6pm, and will offer a tasting of Magic Hat Brewery’s new Participation Variety twelve-pack. “People forget that the Constitution and Bill of Rights were conceived in local taverns,” says Magic Hat Director Alan Newman. “The goal behind this is to try and get people to engage with one another in local bars, to bring more people into an experiential democracy,” adds Dave Obenour of Magic Hat Brewing. Magic Hat Brewery and HeadCount partnered in both the 2004 and 2008 elections and have hosted more than fifty events nationwide in 2008. Since its inception in 2004, HeadCount has registered over 100,000 voters.
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