Dismiss the stereotype of the bearded brewer.
She is notable for being one of the first women in the craft brewing industry and her brews have been widely awarded from organizations such as Great American Beer Festival and the Brewer\'s Association..
Teri Fahrendorf is an American brewer and founder of the Pink Boots Society, an organization that supports women in the brewing industry.
She lives outside of Philadelphia, PA.
She is certified by the Beer Judge Certification Program and serves as a frequent expert and host in the media and in educational programming.
Her work has been published in more than fifty newspapers, magazines, and digital platforms such as Food Wine , USA Today , and Wine Enthusiast .
The former major-market TV news reporter has been the Libations columnist for New Jersey Monthly , the women-in-beer columnist for Ale Street News, and the cohost of the What\'s on Tap weekly beer TV show.
About author(s): Tara Nurin is the beer and spirits contributor to Forbes and an adjunct Beer 101 instructor at Wilmington University.
As women continue to work hard for equal treatment and recognition in the industry, author Tara Nurin shows readers that women have been--and are once again becoming--relevant in the brewing world.
But there are more breweries now than at any time in American History and today women serve as founder, CEO, or head brewer at more than one thousand of them.
Other times, women have simply lost the minimal independence, respect, and economic power brewing brought them.
On a macro scale, men have repeatedly seized control and forced women out of the business.
Wherever and whenever the cottage brewing industry has grown profitable, politics, religion, and capitalism have grown greedy.
It\'s a History that\'s simultaneously inspiring and demeaning.
A Woman\'s Place Is in the Brewhouse celebrates the contributions and influence of female brewers and explores the forces that have erased them from the brewing world.
Their role as family and village brewer lasted for hundreds of thousands of years--through the earliest days of Mesopotamian civilization, the reign of Cleopatra, the witch trials of Medieval and Renaissance Europe, and the settling of colonial America.
It\'s women, not men, who\'ve brewed beer throughout most of human history.
Dismiss the stereotype of the bearded brewer
