The People of Craft Beer
Order the 7th Annual Pink Boots Blend Today The 7TH Annual Pink Boots Blend is Available for Pre-Sale Click Here to Order Today! Each year, women from the Pink Boots Society (PBS) collaborate with Yakima Cheif Hops (YCH) to select the annual blend recipe. For the 7th annual blend, YCH sent virtual selection kits to PBS chapters across the globe and then hosted the final hop rub at the Great American Beer Festival. The 7th […]
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ATX Beer Party Launches with Unique and Charitable Events to Celebrate Austin Beer New group of Austin industry vets join forces to amplify attention to the local beer community with a week of events from November 5th-12th ATX Beer Party, a dynamic new promotions group, is gearing up to launch a week of beer events across the city in celebration of the local beer community and to raise funds for nonprofit organizations. Led by […]
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Troy Aikman’s EIGHT Secures a Top Draft Pick with Seasoned Pro David Reny In a move that signals their ambition to challenge the major brewing conglomerates and emerge as the ‘next great American beer,’ Troy Aikman is proud to announce the appointment of industry veteran David Reny as Chief Commercial Officer of EIGHT Brewing. EIGHT Brewing is the company responsible for producing and marketing Aikman’s EIGHT Elite Light Lager. With nearly three decades of experience […]
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Texas at the Great American Beer Festival Recap 2023 303 medals awarded to 263 breweries at 37th Great American Beer Festival® Competition Denver, Colo. • September 23, 2023—The Brewers Association (BA) unveiled the best beers of 2023 during an awards ceremony at the Great American Beer Festival (GABF®). GABF is the nation’s largest professional beer competition, with its medals globally acknowledged as an emblem of brewing excellence and among the most sought-after accolades within the brewing […]
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The Quest for Inclusion in Beer Isn’t Over Inclusion is quite the buzzword these days and rightfully so. The world is a different place now and much of it wants equality between everyone more than ever. Much has been written and filmed in the last few years on the topic with pieces on shooting at LBGTQ+ clubs, threats on the Asian community, and more and the beer industry has not escaped this. More attention is […]
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New 2023 Pink Boots Collaboration Beers Coming Your Way Held every year in honor of International Women’s Day, Pink Boots members from around the world team up to participate in the annual Pink Boots Collaboration Brew Day®, brewing a beer of their choice using the unique YCH Pink Boots hop blend, with a portion of the sales from each beer benefiting the Pink Boots Society scholarship funds. For the past three years, the Pink Boots […]
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To Donate to the Pink Boots Society – Click here! Article updated April 2023 Women work in all aspects of the beer industry from brewery owners to packaging, cellaring, sales, and taproom management. The Pink Boots Society was established for female beer professionals to assist, inspire, and encourage women to advance their careers through education. In 2020, Pink Boots Society extended its membership to include all women in the fermented / alcohol beverage industry. Pink Boots […]
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Women in Beer | Jill Paluch When I started writing for CraftBeerAustin.com back in 2015, my first series of articles was about Women in Beer. I am happy to announce that thanks to the ladies of the Austin chapter of the Pink Boots Society, I am bringing back the Women in Beer series. This edition features Jill Paluch, Quality Control Manager at Central Machine Works. Describe your average week. What are you responsible for? As […]
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Beer with Gin | Winter Warmer Photo courtesy of the Beer Museum Welcome to our series “Beer with Gin” where we hear from local beer expert Virginia (Gin) Benavidez, co-founder of The Beer Museum, to discuss the origin of the Winter Warmer. By Feature Writer Gin Benavidez This article was originally published in January 2020 Winter warmers are a bit odd because, as a beer style, they’re not very well-defined. In fact, the Beer Style […]
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Order the 6th Annual Pink Boots Blend Today THE 6TH ANNUAL PINK BOOTS BLEND IS NOW AVAILABLE FOR PRE-SALE! CLICK HERE TO LEARN MORE AND SUBMIT YOUR PRE-SALE ORDER I’m interested in hosting a brew day! Each year, women from the Pink Boots Society collaborate with Yakima Cheif Hops (YCH) to select the annual blend recipe. For the 6th annual blend, YCH sent virtual selection kits to PBS chapters across the globe and then hosted […]
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Texas at the Great American Beer Festival Recap 2022 The largest beer festival in the US is back, this year in person, for the first time since 2019! So, the Saturday morning award ceremony was back to the old format, in an auditorium, with all the usual excitement that surrounds it for the breweries. Along with that, the Great American Beer Festival brought in the usual masses of beer enthusiasts for the actual drinking part of […]
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“Beer is what brings us together, but the relationships are what make us stay.” | Sarah Eshelman, Beer Necessities Austin Founder Beer Necessities is a very casual group of Austin women and those that identify as such who get together to drink and chat craft beer, making wonderful connections along the way. Established in September 2014, the group meets monthly at breweries, pubs, and beer bars around Austin. Beer Necessities (BNATX) offers everything from laid-back […]
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