Dismiss the stereotype of the bearded brewer.
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 early modern 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
