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A Woman's Place Is in the Brewhouse
A Woman's Place Is in the Brewhouse: A Forgotten History of Alewives, Brewsters, Witches, and CEOs | Tara Nurin, Teri Fahrendorf
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Dismiss the stereotype of the bearded brewer. It's women, not men, who've brewed beer throughout most of human history. Their role as family and village brewer lasted for hundreds of thousands of yearsthrough the earliest days of Mesopotamian civilization, the reign of Cleopatra, the witch trials of Medieval and Renaissance Europe, and the settling of colonial America. 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. It's a history that's simultaneously inspiring and demeaning. Wherever and whenever the cottage brewing industry has grown profitable, politics, religion, and capitalism have grown greedy. On a macro scale, men have repeatedly seized control and forced women out of the business. Other times, women have simply lost the minimal independence, respect, and economic power brewing brought them. 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. As women continue to work hard for equal treatment and recognition in the industry, author Tara Nurin shows readers that women have beenand are once again becomingrelevant in the brewing world.
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Susanita
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1. My friends adopted Snoop and his brother Steve!
2. In my exercise class for a change of pace the instructor swapped out one of the songs for the Cupid Shuffle.
3. Lunch at a local Mediterranean restaurant.
4. I had a good chat with my financial guy who talked me off the ledge…for now at least.
5. We won HERstory trivia at the brewpub, thanks in part to my crack research into the history of women and beer. ⬇️
#5joysfriday

Susanita In the eighteenth century many brewers in America were women. The term for a female brewer was brewster. https://www.womenshistory.org/articles/women-and-beer-forgotten-pairing 2w
Bookwormjillk Fun fact! 2w
Aims42 Way to kick butt at the brewpub trivia!! And to win on such a great question too - victory is even sweeter 🙌 2w
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Sace I‘m so glad Snoop and his brother have found a home! (edited) 2w
dabbe 🩵💙🩵 2w
kspenmoll What a great list! Love the trivia win! 2w
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BkClubCare
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I have read plenty of books with #witches but today I will feature one of the newest books to my tbr; a book about women and brewing beer 🍺
#Scarathlon #PhotoChallenge

Jee_HookedOnBookz This sounds interesting! 3y
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