In large part due to property speculation, gentrification, financial collapse and limited governmental support, conditions of precarity and ruin have proven fertile soil for the emergence of post-capitalist economic and social projects. In this context, a number of artisanal breweries have emerged within the Spanish post-capitalist landscape. This presentation examines these artisanal projects as they produce and distribute beer within networks that are often characterised as both non-capitalist and informal. Many of these brewers seek to provide their networks with access to a superior beer to those available in the mainstream market while bolstering support for local and alternative economic structures. In this presentation, I situate the growth of this fledgling industry at the productive junction between conditions of precarity and ruin, an embrace of open culture and the assertion of alternative economic frameworks. Drawing on the language utilised by collaborators on the ground, this project explores how production and distribution practices assert the principles of open culture to repurpose the ruins and resources of urban landscapes. Further, this presentation explores how economic, social and political ideals are intertwined to produce functional and accountable networks of production, distribution and supply.  This intertwining however entails tensions between not only existing legal, economic and social frameworks, but also other non-capitalist projects and relationships. 

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