The Pink Boots Society is an international professional association and USA 501(c)3 nonprofit. We inspire, encourage and empower women beer professionals to advance their careers through education. Our 1,200+ members are the female beer industry leaders of tomorrow, and they inspire women consumers to choose beer as their adult beverage of choice.

 

In the spring of 2014, Elaine Toner volunteered at Pink Boots Society as the Fundraising Administrator. She also helped Hilary Jurinak start the Chicago Chapter of Pink Boots Society.  

 

Elaine served as Fundraising Administrator till her work in the craft beer industry pulled her away, when she joined the opening team of a new beer bar in Chicago. In the industry, she has been manager and beer buyer at Chicago's The Gage and is currently the AGM and bar manager at a sausage and craft beer joint, Kaiser Tiger.  

 

She has attended The Doemens Academy Beer Sommelier course at The Siebel Institute and plans to sit for the Certified Cicerone exam this year.  

 

You can stay in touch with Elaine at www.linkedin.com/in/elainetoner and on Twitter @lanietone78.

As a professional freelance beer journalist, Annie Tobey naturally fits into her role as mini-bio writer. Based in Richmond, VA, Annie churns out at least two short newsletter bios per month (like this one!) to highlight the contributions of her fellow members.

 

Her position not only helps connect her to women in the industry - some of whom we hope become sources for stories - but helps PBS by recognizing the importance of volunteers to the organization. The more volunteers, she says, the stronger the group.

 

"My work can help allow PBS to continue to support women in the industry," she emails between deadlines for publications like CraftBeer.com, Beer Advocate, All About Beer Blue Ridge Country, Richmond Navigator magazines and other national and local publications.

CBC Meeting Minutes

PBS 2014 National Meeting

Denver, Colorado USA 

Thursday, April 10, 2014

11am to 1pm

 

Teri Fahrendorf kicked off the meeting introducing herself, the history of Pink Boots Society ("PBS") as well as its mission and importance within the beer community. Started in June 2007 PBS has grown in membership and attendance at its annual meetings. Total PBS boasts over 1,000 members registered on its website and increased its attendance at the annual meeting from last year's 140 to 172 in Denver today.

 

Moving forward, the coming year's goal is to fund PBS so it can officially hire Emily Engdahl as its Executive Director, and pay her a stipend. Click here for the rest of the minutes. 

 

Speaking of Emily Engdahl, our new Executive Director...

Emily is now your main point of contact for Pink Boots Society for anything you used to contact me (Teri) about. You can reach her at emily@pinkbootssociety.org.

After 7 years of fun and amazement; stretching, reaching, building and growing our healthy and productive 501(c) 3 nonprofit international scholarship-generating, networking, chapter-creating, women-empowering and beer-professional-connecting organization, I need a breather. And I need to connect with my other hobbies, including reconnecting to actual beer and brewing by homebrewing this fall. You'll still see me plenty! But Emily will be handing the daily operations as of November 1st. Please support her. Thanks everybody!                                                         ~~Teri Fahrendorf

Keep your eye on our website because our new web store will soon be up! We'll have 3 designs of t-shirts, our usual cloisonne pins, and the addition of two styles of patches, plus vinyl UV-resistant stickers!
 
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Thank you Emily for getting these done.
Coming soon at http://pinkbootssociety.org/shop/

July 5-31, 2014: MiKro Craft Beer Bar Scholarship for the Cicerone BeerSavvy Online Course application window.
August 5-31, 2014: Portland State University Business of Craft Brewing application window.
September 5-30, 2014: TBD
October 5-31, 2014: TBD
November 5-30, 2014: TBD
December 5-31, 2014: Oregon State University's Craft Brewery Start-up Workshop II application window.

Please note that Recipients are not announced until 75 days after an application window opens! See above for How Scholarships Work.