Pink Boots Society May 2012 (Pre-CBC)
The Pink Boots Society is an international nonprofit association committed to providing
educational opportunities to women beer professionals.
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| Greetings! | 
Knowledge is everything. If you don't know about beer, you can't care about beer. We care. Learn from us.
If you are a woman beer professional, you may at times feel like a lily in a wilderness of sequoias, but I guarantee that you are not alone. We may be few, yet we are many: 786 members worldwide as I write this e-newsletter.
As I have often repeated, there is no glass ceiling in the beer industry. The only glass ceiling is an education celing. I have also often said that we teach each other. That's what PBS members do. The more you get involved, the more you learn.
So join us: The next national meeting is May 4th at 11:30am in San Diego, followed quickly by our bonus national meeting on July 28th at 4:00pm in Portland, Oregon. See you at one or both! |
| UPCOMING PBS MEETING DATES |
Friday, May 4, 2012:
11:30am-1:30pm - at CBC, San Deigo, CA (USA).
Saturday, July 28, 2012:
4:00-6:00pm - World Brewing Congress National & Pacific Northwest Regional Meeting - Lucky Labrador Brewpub, Portland, OR (USA).
Friday, Sept. 28, 2012:
11:30am-3:30pm - PBS Meeting & Seminar during GABF, Vine Street Pub, Denver, CO (USA).
Friday, March 29, 2013:
11:30-1:00pm - at CBC, Washington, DC (USA). |
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| CBC NATIONAL MEETING in SAN DIEGO |
Last year we had 77 attendees at our San Francisco CBC meeting (see photo above). With 780+ members worldwide, we look forward to a great meeting in San Diego!
Click here for all information on Where, When, Bring, Cost, Evites, Non-CBC attendees, E-lists, Volunteers, T-shirt & Pin sales, etc. at our Craft Brewers Conference meeting.
Then please print it off so you know where to go! See you in sunny San Diego.
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| WBC NATIONAL (and PNW REGIONAL) MEETING in PORTLAND |
Announcing our third National meeting for 2012!
Every four years the World Brewing Congress* is held somewhere in the world, and each summer Portland hosts the Oregon Brewers Festival, when PBS-Pacific Northwest hosts one of its two semi-annual regional meetings. (Photo above from PNW-Regional December meeting.)
These two events will collide at our joint WBC National/PNW-Regional PBS meeting on July 28, 2012 from 4:00-6:00pm. If you will be in Portland for either the OBF or the WBC, we encourage you to meet your PBS sisters at this Happy Hour meeting. More info here.
* The WBC is a joint meeting of the Master Brewers Association of the Americas and the American Society of Brewing Chemists, with active participation by the Brewery Convention of Japan, European Brewery Convention, and the Institute of Brewing and Distilling.
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| BRING MOM OUT FOR A BEER |
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Ben Edmund's Mom, Nancy |
Jump-start the "Mother of all Beer Weeks" by hosting your very own Bring Mom Out For A Beer event on May 13th. Mother's Day is one day before American Beer Week starts, so the timing couldn't be better.
This Mother's Day, May 13 from 1-4PM, raise a pint to honor the world's first beer brewers - women. We invite breweries, brewpubs, restaurants, bottle shops and patrons to participate in our international educational campaign, Bring Mom Out For A Beer (BMOFAB).
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Jon Graber's Mom, Tina |
Not only were women the first brewers, but those first women brewers were also mothers. From the earliest days of domesticated grain cultivation (3500 BCE), women were responsible for beer making in the home, since it was considered a provisional food group.* And many argue it still is.
All participating establishments are invited to post their Mother's Day festivities on www.craftbeer.com under "Events," or on BMOFAB 2012's Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/BringMomOutForABeer2012.
Send us a picture of your Mom enjoying a beer on Mother's Day, and we may put it in next year's e-newsletter. Click here for the Press Release.
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| WHERE DO PINK BOOTS SOCIETY MEMBERS LIVE ? |
More proof it takes a TEAM to make Pink Boots Society great...
Out of the blue member Julie Wartell from www.pubquest.com sent me maps she had designed and created showing where all our current PBS members live, both worldwide and USA distribution.
Currently we only have PDFs, but they will soon be available on www.pubquest.com if you want to link to them.
Otherwise you can download a PDF of each here: PBS World Map or PBS USA Map.
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| PINK BOOTS SOCIETY & BARLEY'S ANGELS T-SHIRTS ON SALE | |
  
Thanks to Anita Lum's dilligence, we have full-color t-shirts for sale. These are true-to-size women's style tees with v-neck and logo on front and back. They come in three styles, and you can see them on our website: http://pinkbootssociety.org/SHOP.htm. Save on shipping and buy for $20 each at the meeting. Support our scholarship fundraising! Buy a t-shirt today!
Click here to see the back of the shirt we can't show you.
♥ Black cotton Pink Boots Society tees.
♥ Pink cotton Pink Boots Society tees.
♥ Black cotton Barley's Angels tees. (These are now collectors' items with original logo, which must be phased out as per Columbia Studio's requirement.)
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| 501 (c) 3 TAX EXEMPT STATUS UPDATE | |
 We submitted our 98-page 1023 application to the IRS on April 20, 2011. We have now been assigned an Agent, and we are working with her to fine-tune our application in order to comply with IRS rules. Having never done this before (but certainly learning a lot now), this has taken much longer than anticipated.
Read more here.
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| WE ARE SETTING BARLEY'S ANGELS FREE! |
 This is the last time you will see this Barley's Angels logo.
(Except for some now-limited edition t-shirts we need to sell to raise money for scholarships. See t-shirt section below.)
But, the big news is that we are setting the Barley's Angels program FREE.
With communication from the IRS about our 501(c)3 application (see above), we are refocusing on our core mission of Education for Women Beer Professionals.
But BA is not dead! Think of Barley's Angels as a beautiful Phoenix being reborn from the beer kettle's flames. We can thank Christine Jump for Barley's Angels renaissance. Read more here. |
| WOMEN IN BEER HISTORIAN is new PBS HISTORIAN too! |
 Could the history of women's contribution to the early years of craft brewing slip away from us? What about the history of Pink Boots Society itself? How many national, regional, and non-USA meetings have taken place? Who was there?
These questions should be important to us. How few people out there know that women were the first brewers? If we aren't documenting our history (her-story) and contribution to the craft of fine beer, who will?
We all stand on each other's shoulders, each beer generation taking inspiration from, and going farther than, the previous generation of women beer professionals. Just imagine where women in beer could be in 100 years!
PBS is a young organization, but we hope to grow into a significant contributor to the story and people of great beer. Helping us document our history, and the history of the contribution of women to beer is our new PBS Historian, Tara Nurin from Pennsylvania. Read more about Tara and why the role of historian is so important.
It takes a TEAM to make Pink Boots Society great. Please help me in welcoming Tara Nurin: tara@eyesontheworld.us.
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| SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS |
 This spot in our newsletter is reserved to shout out Thank You to our sponsors:
Brewers Association for use of a seminar room for our CBC meeting.
Angela Arp from Papillion, Nebraska for $50 donation.
Stoel Rives, LLC in Portland, Oregon for $250 donation.
Kassik's Brewery in Kenai Alaska for $100 donation.
Country Malt Group, 9 locations in North America for their latest $250 donation.
We couldn't do it without you! Thanks! |
| SCHOLARSHIP-FUNDRAISING PBS COLLABORATION BREW |
Did you hear about PBS's first fund-raising collaboration beer?
Alex Nowell of Drake's Brewing in California organized it, and brought bottles of Drakes Pink Boots Scholarship Saison to inspire us at our GABF meeting last September.
Read about it here, and consider organizing your own regional PBS scholarship fundraising collaboration brew event with your local Pink Booters. |
| HELP A GRAD STUDENT and AIR YOUR VIEWS OF BEER ADVERTISING | |
 Got a gripe about beer advertising? Tell Annie!
Annie Sugar is a Ph.D. student in the Media Studies program at the University of Colorado-Boulder currently conducting research about television beer commercials. She would appreciate our support and assistance in her research by completing her online survey at
https://cuboulder.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_3f37SFQ0XMlDDiA.
Participation is anonymous and completely voluntary, and the survey should take no more than 10 minutes to complete. Please contact Annie with any questions anne.sugar@colorado.edu.
(P.S. This is a real beer from Australia.)
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The Pink Boots Society is committed to the advancement of the education of women beer professionals, either by developing educational scholarships, or by hosting educational speakers and seminars at our regional and national meetings. If you are a woman who earns income from beer, I encourage you to join us.
Cheers to you! |
 Teri Fahrendorf, President Pink Boots Society |
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