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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 int...

Pink Boots Beer launch is this coming Sunday- April 30th from 1-4 at Red Truck Brewing!  Be the first to try it!  $1 from every pint will go back to the Pink Boots Society. Spread the word! What will you be tasting?  NAME OF BEER:    Pink Boots Unite Golden Honey Ale Sessionable springtime ale dry-hopped with Cashmere, Triple Pearl & Challenger providing floral & earthy notes which play well with the subtle honey & light biscuit backbone. Hops are donated from Topp’s Hops in Abbotsford & Organic Honey is from GoldStrike in Lillooet, BC. International Women’s Day collaboration brew between: Big Ridge Brewing, KPU Brewing Program, Red Truck, Bomber Brewing, R&B, Dogwood Brewing, Foamer’s Folly, Callister & Steamworks. STYLE OF BEER : Golden Honey Ale ABV:  5.4% IBU:  30 INGREDIENTS USED:  Mostly BC malt, local hops (Challenger, Triple Pearl & Cashmere), 40 kg Organic Honey, ale yeast from Fo...

my notes from yesterday's beer column on cbc radio's on the coast with stephen quinn: So you know you like craft beer. Now what? I think learning more about craft beer should be the second thing on everybody's craft beer to do list... right behind drinking more of it! I was at a tasting room the other evening and the folks beside me were very enthusiastic about their craft beers. It appeared they were on a bit of a brewery crawl, which I very much salute, and were trying to find the words to describe the different beers and how they felt about them. Now I'm not going to go all beer snob on you and say that they were using the wrong words to describe the beers, because there aren't wrong words to describe any experience. Sure, they could have used words like "mouthfeel" and "lacing on the glass" and other bits of beer lingo, but that's not what struck me most about these beer appreciators. No, what made me keep listening was th...

drink! you'll live longer! another best beers list this one is the best 365 in the world but don't be dismayed when you click the link and the list isn't there you actually have to pay for the privilege of reading the list the link is to a blog post by the guy who wrote the list about why he thinks there does so need to be another best of list if i didn't have a pesky day job i'd be going to kwantlen college if you are a camra vancouver member please go vote for the 2014 best ofs! arguably the best craft beer joints in vancouver (i don't like craft at all, so it doesn't make anywhere near my top 10) victoria beer week events are up! march 1 - 8, 2014 a spa where you can bathe in beer ? yup, and it's not just any beer, it's dogfish head great beer ads for tourism portland like this guy who really likes beer nordic beer history ancient grog reborn by dogfish head parody of hipsters ordering craft beer you're not th...