Several Bay Area breweries and bars have fired employees, cut ties with a contractor and vowed to do better for their female employees after they were implicated in a torrent of sexual discrimination and misconduct allegations that have swept through America’s craft beer industry in the past week.

The allegations prompted employees at the Oakland taproom for Modern Times Beer to announce that they would stop pouring beer until company leaders take “appropriate” action to prevent further discrimination and harassment.

This announced stoppage came after Jacob McKean, the founder of the San Diego-based brewing company, had announced that he was stepping down as CEO and that the company had parted ways with an employee named in the allegations, which first arose on social media. It was not specified where the employee worked.

Women in the craft beer community also woke to the news Wednesday that a window had been smashed in at the Good Hop, a craft beer bar in Oakland’s Uptown neighborhood, the morning after it hosted a social event to raise money and support women in the industry.

Sharing news that the window was being repaired, the Good Hop owners said, “The industry that we love so much may be currently going through a much-needed, long-overdue reckoning, but it is still an amazing industry and an incredible community.”

As with the #MeToo movement that swept through the entertainment and restaurant industries several years ago, the allegations portraying the craft beer industry as a haven for sexual harassment and misconduct arose on social media.

They were prompted by Brienne Allan, a brewer at a Salem, Massachusetts, brewery, who on May 11 asked her followers to share their stories of abuse, harassment or discrimination.

In the hundreds of stories reposted by Allan, via her @ratmagnet account, female brewery employees from around the country shared stories of inappropriate touching, demeaning comments about appearance, being told they didn’t belong in the industry, or being denied promotions and equal pay. Some of the @ratmagnet posts also described racist and homophobic statements by male managers.

In addition to Modern Times, the other Bay Area breweries implicated in the @ratmagnet posts include Original Pattern Brewing Co., also in Oakland, Humble Sea Brewing Co. in Santa Cruz and Beer Barron Bar and Kitchen, a bar chain that has locations in Livermore, Pleasanton, Oakland and Santa Rosa.

So far, the owners of these companies and bars have responded with statements that appear to show remorse, a desire to accept responsibility and a promise to do better. That’s unlike the Hollywood power players and celebrity chefs accused in the original #MeToo movement, who tended to circle the wagons, issue fierce denials or resort to weak apologies.

“We were named. We won’t pretend we weren’t,” the owners of Humble Sea Brewing Company in Santa Cruz said in a statement. “We recognize the severity of what’s alleged about us and the beer industry as a whole.”

While the Humble Sea owners said they couldn’t go into detail about any personnel actions they have taken, co-founder Frank Scott Krueger confirmed to the San Francisco Chronicle that a brewer had been fired in the past after being arrested in connection with an assault on another employee.

At Modern Times, founder McKean wrote a lengthy blog and Facebook post, apologizing that “anyone has ever had to face harassment” at his company. He also said: “No one should ever have to be traumatized at work, and it guts me that people have under my watch.”

McKean mentioned a “contentious” interaction he’d had with an employee a year ago, to acknowledge that he didn’t believe he had done enough as CEO to protect the company’s internal culture. By bringing in new leadership, McKean said Modern Times was serious about improving the ways it handles misconduct allegations going forward.

In their collective statement, employees at Modern Times’ Oakland taproom said they still wanted to meet with managers before serving customers again. The meeting reportedly was scheduled for Thursday, but they didn’t return a call asking if the issues had been resolved. They said they “hope the company acts swiftly” so that they can begin serving customers again soon.

Original Pattern, a brewery and tasting room on Fourth Street in Oakland, also announced it had taken action against an employee named in the @ratmagnet posts. After an internal investigation, the company said it had fired an assistant brewer.

“We have always taken all allegations of misconduct seriously, acted swiftly to investigate and taken appropriate actions based on our findings,” the company said in its statement. “We believe we lived up to those standards in this case.”

While Original Pattern said it has always celebrated the contributions of women on its team, it also acknowledged that it needed to do better for them, given that the allegations against the particular employee didn’t surface until a few days ago. The company said it would engage its “entire team” in instituting new practices and that it would share those practices publicly “for our community to see.”

Harpreet Judge, one of the two brothers who own Beer Baron, also said that they were “disgusted and disheartened” to learn that a third-party beer buyer the company worked with was named in the @ratmagnet posts. Beer Baron has cut ties with the buyer.

“Although we aren’t responsible for his actions, we know that we are held accountable by association,” Singh said, adding: “We thank the brave people who have come forward and spoken out, and we thank @ratmagnet for being a platform for these stories.”