Women in Beer
As I’ve mentioned in previous posts, this summer I was honored to received a Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) scholarship for the Science Communication Fellowship. This is a program that was developed by OMSI to teach scientists how to effectively explain and demonstrate their research to a wide variety of non-scientists. It’s a seriously incredible…
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Oregon’s First Women Brewers [1879-1908]
ale·wife ♦ ˈālwīf/ ♦ noun A female who brews beer. syn: brewster, brewess Women and beer. What a tangled mess. Currently, women are less then a quarter of the craft beer work force. Macrobreweries don’t know how to advertise to women, craft breweries tend to stereotype “women beers” as light and fruity. For decades women’s bodies sold beer. And…
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