Drew Keske —
impact operator.
A land-stewardship practitioner in San Diego, building two concepts at the intersection of craft beer, community, and values-driven entrepreneurship.
Background
Background and conviction
What this site is
This is the working reference for two related concepts. Kegs for a Cause is a charitable craft beer event series hosted at licensed partner breweries, where a share of the night's pours goes to a local cause. LiveSwell is a low-ABV craft beer brand — currently a concept, moving forward with the right partners.
It's written for the people who could help build it: breweries, nonprofits, private-label and contract partners, and investors. Everything here — the feasibility study, the deck, the toolkit — is public so a conversation can start from the same numbers.
The path here
Years inside mission-driven organizations. A home brewer's attention to recipe and process. A serious practice around land stewardship and coastal ecosystems in San Diego. The two concepts on this site — Kegs for a Cause and LiveSwell Brewing — are what happens when those threads meet a hospitality category that has not figured out either community or sustainability at scale.
Why these projects
Both concepts run on the same conviction: doing good and having a great time are the same thing. Kegs for a Cause proves that at the event level in the near term. LiveSwell carries it into the product itself.
Brewing education
Technical training matters as much as vision. The MiraCosta Brewtech program is the kind of credential that turns home-brewing intuition into production-ready discipline — worth keeping in the back pocket as LiveSwell moves from concept to brewhouse.
Operating framework
The impact operator
An impact operator runs a thing — payroll, permits, vendors, the 6am Saturday — while keeping the mission load-bearing. Not a nonprofit director, not a founder who treats impact as marketing. Both at once.
Practically, that means: build it like a business so it survives, measure it like a charity so the impact is real, and document everything so a successor can take it over.
Get in touch
One person, one inbox
Whether you're a brewery, a nonprofit, an investor, or just curious — the easiest path is email.