portland
countdown to my portland road trip
t minus two sleeps
can't wait to visit you:
rogue
deschutes
hopworks
distillery row
t minus two sleeps
can't wait to visit you:
rogue
deschutes
hopworks
distillery row
brewing up gender parity
My article on gender parity is on the Growler website! BREWING UP GENDER PARITY: THE QUEST FOR BEERQUALITY REBECCA WHYMAN • JUNE 13, 2019 Women are markedly underrepresented in craft beer. This is not news to anyone. But have you ruminated on just how large the gender gap is? A 2018 survey by Nielsen-Harris found American craft beer drinkers are 68.5 per cent male and 31.5 per cent female. Closer to home, BeerMeBC’s 2018 survey had those numbers at 71 and 29 per cent, with 0.32 per cent identifying as “other.” For those not so strong in the math department, that means that there are only three women drinking craft beer for every seven men. If you were a straight man looking for a date, you wouldn’t like those odds at all. And I can tell you, as one of those three women, it’s not much fun being outnumbered everywhere I go to enjoy my beloved craft beer, delightful as those seven men may be. Drinking craft beer is the easy part—when we move into the sections of craft
I just went to Portland a couple of weeks ago and I strongly suggest to go to Apex Bar, Belmont Station and Cascade Barrel House. That was 3 highlights of my trip.
ReplyDeleteThose places are great and I've been to each many times. Also I recommend Hair of the Dog Brewery Oh. We met the whole Canadian beer crawlers there! Ok ladies get over to the Rogue Public House now. The Kobe hamburger is epic as is the beer. Sign up to become a card carrying Rogue Nation member in case they open a pub in Vancouver :-)
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