We will vote on Committee Chairs in Boston at our CBC meeting. Nominate yourself or any other member. Membership list is up at www.pinkbootssociety.com.  
 
Chairmanships will eventually stablize as two-year posts that overlap. In order to ensure continuity, we will only vote on half the committees at a time. The Committee Chairs for our Boston election will be 1.5- and 2.5-year seats. The following general election will be the GABF meeting in Denver in 2010. Thereafter we will have one general election per year, always at the GABF meeting, where we will elect new chairpersons for half of the committees.
 
Below are the current nominations. Please email your own nominations to teri@pinkbootssociety.com. It is absolutely okay to nominate yourself. Nominators will remain annonymous.

 

Membership Committee Chair nominee: Megan Parisi
Technical Brewing Committee Chair nominee: Michelle Lowney
Election Committee Chair nominee: Laura Ulrich
Website & Information Technology Chair nominee: open

Consumer Education Committee-Western Chair nominee: Sue Smith-Troy

Consumer Education Committee-Eastern Chair nominee: Sebbie Buhler

Events & Festivals Committee Chair nominee: open
Scholarship Committee Chair nominee: open

Other Committees? Make a suggestion! Send to teri@pinkbootssociety.com.

 

 

Please note: This will only happen when we get website help. Our new website project is slow-going. Please email teri@pinkbootssociety.com if you can help. Otherwise membership list updates may have to wait until we can afford to hire website help. 

 

Please email Laura Ulrich at laura@pinkbootssociety.com, if you are either a voting member who can't attend, or you are a non-voting member who plans to attend our April Boston-CBC meeting, and you are willing to relay a proxy vote via cell phone. 

Member Sebbie Buhler (Rogue Brewing) is moderating a panel called, "Beer According to Women." (See below for Panel members.)

 

Sebbie says, "In many cultures for hundreds of years, women have been key players in the brewing process. In recent decades, women have become pivotal in purchasing beer for consumption at home. With the resurgence of craft beer, women are  back in the brewery, behind the bar, and out on the streets promoting beer. So we ask, do women in beer matter? How can women in the beer industry make a difference in getting more women involved in brewing and drinking better beer."

Sebbie is looking for input from our members. Do you have a comment, question, or topic you would like the panelists to cover? Please email Sebbie at sebbie@pinkbootssociety.com.

 

 

Ginger Johnson - "Where's the Other 50%?: Developing and Serving the Female Craft Beer Enthusiast Market."

Julia Herz - "What's Up in the Craft Beer Segment."

Sebbie Buhler, moderator - "Beer According to Women: How Women Brew, Present, Pair, and Sell Beer (Yes, Gender Matters)."
Sebbie's Panelists: Candice Alstrom, Teri Fahrendorf, and Jodi Andrews Stoudt

 

 

Here are the details on Yahoo Group, "pinkbootssociety":
Group home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pinkbootssociety.  
Group email address: pinkbootssociety@yahoogroups.com.

Send your posts to this email address or click on "Posts" in the left column once you are in. 

 

 

Want to be a hero, and attract a little fame and a lot of gratitude? Send your sponsoship check to: Pink Boots Society, 1526 NE Alberta St. #222, Portland, OR 97211.

 

Our current bank account balance is $1,570. We are looking for meeting sponsors for our CBC-Boston meeting, as well as more $1,000-seed sponsors. We will again try to keep the lunch meeting costs down, so as to encourage the highest attendance of our members.

 

Cheers to JoAnne Carilli-Stevenson (Aspen Gold Marketing Services), Will Meyers (Cambridge Brewing), Megan Parisi (Cambridge Brewing), and Teri Fahrendorf (Pink Boots Society) for their fundraising efforts to date. Additional seed sponsorship request letters will go out as Teri has time to write and send them.

 

Budget items include meeting costs, post-meeting party costs (if we have one), website domain name, website hosting, email list hosting, e-newsletter archiving, incorporation fees, non-profit filing fees, and eventually scholarships for members, career kits, and other future Action Items we vote on to facilitate our goals.

 

 

US Phone: 303-709-4420, Work Phone: 403-678-9981

 

We will also be collecting areas of expertise at our CBC-Boston meeting to add to our database. Eventually we hope to have a members-only searchable database. This is a great way to network, share what you know, and be a mentor and give back to the industry you love so much.

 

Michelle will also be asking for input on what members want to learn about brewing chemistry & brewing technology. We may have a program for you at the 2009 GABF-Denver meeting.

 

They are looking for Women's signature beer, something special, secret recipe, something that says YOU! This is not a competition, but a way to bring recognition and honor to women in the brewing industry.

The WIB Festival is a fundraiser for W.E.A.V.E (women escaping a violent environment), a local Women and Children's Charity/Safe house. www.weaveinc.org.  

 
Deadlines/Dates
* February 27, 20009 ~ Women Sign-up by this date
* March 20, 2009 ~ Women bios., Beer names, description
* April 20, 2009~Beer received at the Rubicon Brewing Company
* April 25, 2009 ~ Main Event at the Rubicon 8:30 am-11:30 pm.

  (2004 Capitol Ave., Sacramento Ca., 95814 - Phone: 916.448.7032)

Member Suzanne Woods needs samples of beer brewed by women for her presentation at Philladelphia's Craft Beer Festival in March 2009. These beers would also be reviewed for an article to be published later.

 

For more information contact: Suzanne Woods (267-664-6200) suzannew@slyfoxbeer.com.

The 2009 Great American Beer Festival will be held September 23-26. 

As part of the 2009 GABF-Denver meeting, we plan to focus on Consumer Education, and how we can increase the number of women beer drinkers. This may be an afternoon program; a separate breakout session from the possible Brewing Chemistry & Technology program.

Our Consumer Education Committee Co-Chairs plan to present a program with ideas you can take home and use. Some possibilities include:

* Women's (or Co-ed) Beer Clubs - How to set up and run.
* Beer Dinners - How to set up and run.

* Chef Education - suggestions.

* Media Education - suggestions.

* Online educational needs - perhaps a link on the PBS website with downloadable info. 
* University Students - career-planning outreach.

* Coordinated brewery tour dates. (See Oregon's Zwickelmania or Wine Country Thanksgiving for examples.) Perhaps on the afternoon of Mother's Day each year?

* Brewery tours for student-age groups: girl scouts? (Teri toured Miller Brewing in Milwaukee when she was a 10-year old girl scout. It was her favorite girl scout tour.)

This consumer education-focused post-meeting program was predicated by Sue Smith-Troy's wonderful spontaneous discussion at the 2008 Denver meeting about Left Hand Brewing's Ales-4-FemAles beer club, and how that idea could be spread to more breweries and pubs.

If there's time, we may also break out into voting and non-voting groups, so each group can discuss its needs, desired member benefits, and how we can help each other.

 

Do you have a time and date preference? (Meetings include lunch.) Choices include:
  * Tues. Sept. 22 at 1:00pm (Pre-GABF)
  * Fri. Sept. 25 at 1:00pm
  * Sun. Sept. 27 at 11 or Noon (Post-GABF)

In the future all GABF-Denver meetings will include an election, but not this year, as the first Committee Chairmanships will not expire until the 2010 GABF-Denver meeting's election.

 

Also, if you have experience with websites, our provisional Website & Information Technology committee chairwoman, Michelle Kelsall, and website helper, Teri, need your help. Please contact teri@pinkbootssociety.com. We will forever be grateful!

 

April 20, 2009 is the deadline for the Glen Hay Falconer Foundation Brewing Scholarship. The Siebel Institute (one of our 2008 Denver Meeting sponsors) co-sponsors this scholarship. Two per year are awarded to a brewer or homebrewer from the Pacific Northwest or Northern California. Click here for info:

http://www.siebelinstitute.com/registration/falconer_scholarship.html.
 

August 1, 2009 is the deadline for the William A. Hipp Scholarhship to the MBAA Brewing and Malting Science Course. Applicants must be members of MBAA and have five years of experience. Click here for info: http://www.mbaa.com/scholarship/hipp.html.  

 

As far as I know, no deadlines have yet been set for the new Professor Michael J. Lewis Endowment Fund at UC-Davis. Click here for info:

http://foodscience.ucdavis.edu/news_events/new-endowment-honors-professor-emeritus-michael-j-lewis
 

Google "brewing scholarships" to see what other options come up. Be sure to look several pages in for the lesser known scholarship options.

 

Courses:

There are tons of brewing courses out there. Most brewing schools offer several courses:

* Siebel Institute: http://www.siebelinstitute.com/
* American Brewers Guild: http://www.abgbrew.com/
* Master Brewers Association of the Americas: http://www.mbaa.com/education/education.html

* University of California-Davis: http://extension.ucdavis.edu/unit/brewing/

* Oregon State University: http://oregonstate.edu/dept/foodsci/undergrad/fermopt.htm

* Chemeketa College: http://www.chemeketa.edu/programs/natural/index.html#beer 
  & on hop cultivation: http://www.chemeketa.edu/programs/natural/index.html#hops

* Sunderland University, UK: http://www.brewlab.co.uk/trainingcourses.asp

* Heriot-Watt University, UK: http://www.icbd.hw.ac.uk/
And others around the world.