Pink Boots Society and D.G. Yuengling & Son, Inc. are excited to introduce the 2021 recipient of the Yuengling Women in Brewing Scholarship: Stephanie Miracle! Stephanie has selected the Siebel Institute’s WBA Concise Course in Brewing Technology and will be attending in-person this fall.

Stephanie Miracle is the first female brewer of Lexington, KY! She is active at both Country Boy Brewing locations; in Georgetown as a Cellarperson and in Lexington as a Brewer, where she has hosted three Pink Boots Collaboration Brew Days® creating Pink Brut: Strawberry/Hibiscus Brut IPA, Girls Just Wanna Have Plumb: NEIPA with Plumb, and most recently Kentucky Girls: Hoppy Lager. Stephanie was featured on the Boys Are From Marzen: A Women in Beer Podcast as well as an article in Lexington Herald Leader focusing on her recent collaboration with Nappy Roots of Atlantucky Brewery. When Stephanie isn’t busy at the breweries, she enjoys homebrewing and is a member of Brewers of Central Kentucky (BOCK). Stephanie’s main career goal right now is to dig into the minutiae of brewing and fermentation process, and hopes to make a life for herself in the fermented beverage industry. She believes this course will give her a greater, in-depth look at the sciences involved in the brewing process, increasing her knowledge as both a brewer and a cellarperson. Stephanie considers herself a dry sponge, wanting to soak up as much information as she can.

The WBA Concise Course in Brewing Technology covers a similar range of topics as those presented in our advanced-level programs, but at a depth which allows those with only moderate understanding of brewing science and technology to participate in the course. This is an ideal course for those considering entry into the brewing industry, as well as those pursuing a wider knowledge of the business in order to improve their skills and advance in their brewing careers. The course also offers the best way to prepare for our advanced-level programs should you decide to take them at a later date.

Pink Boots Society is proud to announce the recipients for the White Labs scholarships: Reggie Gallo, Monique Gray, and Olive Overmoyer.

Reggie Gallo is the Brand Manager and Production Assistant at Chuckanut Bay Distillery in Bellingham, WA. Reggie is interested in expanding her knowledge about the beverage industry as much as possible to gain new perspectives on the creation of alcohol. She believes the White Labs – The Many Flavors of Fermentation Course will help her better understand what makes every beverage so different. As a beverage enthusiast, she loves and appreciates all beverages, and hopes to educate others about them as well. The ultimate goal in Reggie’s career as a beverage specialist is customer appreciation and engagement; this course will give her the knowledge to communicate the various beverages to consumers. Coming from a distillery, Reggie has a unique beverage background, different than many Pink Boots members and she looks forward to sharing her knowledge as a new member of the Bellingham Chapter. 

Creative entrepreneur, Monique Gray is a Massage Therapy Instructor and the owner of Mo Betta Brews LA. Being one of Long Beach, CA’s few black owned, woman owned craft brewers, Monique was recently featured in Shoutout LA highlighting the creation of her 3 ingredient all-natural ciders. Monique’s goals are to make better tasting ciders and sour beers, and eventually open a cidery in her hometown. She believes the White Labs – Sour Beer: Alternative Microbes and Fermentation Techniques Course will help further her knowledge and insight as a home brewer, perfecting her craft of making sour beers and ciders. Being relatively new to Pink Boots, Monique has already attended multiple LA Chapter meet ups and even shared some of her ciders.

Olive Overmoyer is a Quality Assurance Technician in the lab at Terrapin Beer Co. in Athens, GA. On her first day as a brewer at Terrapin Beer Co., she was featured on the Bitch Beer Podcast with their all-women brewing team. Olive enjoys learning everything she can about brewing and the science behind it; she even designed her own major in college to incorporate everything needed to be a contributing member of the beer industry. Olive believes the White Labs – Reusing Yeast Course will help her hon in on her yeast management skills, which has been a huge goal of hers since starting as Quality Assurance Technician. She is excited to learn more about yeast storage, selection, and health as Terrapin continues to grow and expand. Olive is very passionate about the brewing industry and hopes to eventually advance her career to a leadership role, passing on her knowledge and lifting up other women and non-binary people.

White Labs – Sour Beer: Alternative Microbes and Fermentation Techniques: From traditional spontaneous fermentation to inoculation techniques and overviews of the major organisms used and found in sour beer we’ll review the behavior of select organisms and how to best utilize them in a sour program.

White Labs – The Many Flavors of Fermentation: The ability to effectively communicate fermentation attributes is crucial in brewing business. Through the use of video, slides, narration, and quizzes, this online class will explore ways to describe yeast-influenced flavor/aroma compounds, how yeast can manipulate other ingredients, and ways to establish brand identity through sensory. Students will develop a comprehensive vocabulary and the ability to clearly communicate fermentation profiles to staff and customers alike.

White Labs – Reusing Yeast: Getting the Most from Your Culture: Consistent fermentations and high-quality beer begin with healthy yeast and consistent pitch-rates. Join Joe Kurowski, White Labs head of brewing operations, in this course, which offers an in-depth look at how to best harvest and store yeast for optimal performance. Explore various fermentation-related topics such as pitch rates, best practices when looking at yeast health and ideal conditions for yeast storage. Ideal for staff who works in the cellar, this course also provides content that everyone working in a brewery setting should understand.

Pink Boots Society in partnership with Crafting A Strategy is excited to announce the recipients for the one-year membership to Crafting A Strategy scholarship: Marion Prevot.

Marion was born in France and went to Belgium to finish her master’s degree in Multilingual Communication where she found her vocation and became a brewer. While finishing her master’s degree, Marion was also working in a taproom and as an assistant brewer for separate breweries, plus completed 2 years of evening brewing courses to follow her dream of becoming a brewer, being the only woman everywhere she went. She joined Pink Boots to find solidarity and learn from other women in the fermented beverage industry, and is a member of the Benelux Chapter. Marion believes the Crafting A Strategy membership will help with her ambition to learn from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, possibly Canada or the United States, and eventually open her own brewery.

Crafting A Strategy (CAS) is a global online learning platform that will be available to the scholarship recipients from August 15, 2021 – August 15, 2022. Used in universities and breweries all over the world, CAS has over 150 digital content pieces specific to the business needs of brewing entrepreneurs. These include podcasts, webinars, case studies, white papers, instructional videos, blogs, and a professional forum. Scholarship recipients will receive access to all CAS content and forums for one calendar year and they will also receive a weekly CAS newsletter with industry analysis, advice, and links to new content and forums. This scholarship is designed for those owning or planning a brewery, company presidents, CEOs, COOs, CFOs, marketing professionals, head brewers, and sales strategists. Please see below for Required Applicant Qualifications.

The Pink Boots Society is excited to announce Nancy Etzkorn as the recipient of the Cicerone Beer Savvy scholarship!

Nancy was recently promoted to General Manager at the soon-to-open Rockwell Beer Garden and was featured in the St. Louis Magazine highlighting the new location. She was previously the Tasting Room Manager and Tap Room Manager at Rockwell Beer Company in St. Louis, MO. Nancy became a Pink Boots member earlier this year after Rockwell Beer Company hosted a Pink Boots Collaboration Brew Day® supporting the St. Louis Chapter. As a first-generation college graduate with a Bachelor’s Degree of Science in Nutrition and Dietetics with an emphasis in Culinary Arts, Nancy seeks professional experiences that combine the careful calculation of a Dietitian and the creativity of a Culinarian; her experiences in food production taught her that bringing the two together requires an appreciation of both the process and the product. She believes the Cicerone Beer Savvy scholarship will help expand her beer style and service knowledge, pursue her career goal of becoming a brewer and increase the representation of female-identifying leaders in the fermented beverage industry.

Cicerone Beer Savvy is a comprehensive self-paced online beer training course that can be started whenever and wherever. This scholarship is perfect for any brewery owner, beer bar manager, bartender, server, beer writer, beer educator, beer distributor, brewery sales representative, or beer chef.

In partnership with Brew Pipeline, Pink Boots Society is excited to announce the Portland State University’s Business of Craft Brewing Certificate scholarship recipient, Gabriel Clarke.

Gabriel Clarke is a Tasting Room Team Member at Maine Beer Company in Freeport, ME. She recently joined Pink Boots Society and the Maine Chapter where she has been a highly valued member in her short time with the Chapter. Gabriel recently brewed her first beer “Trans Rights” with Belleflower Brewing Company. Gabriel considers the Portland State University’s Business in Craft Brewing Certificate an opportunity to prep herself as a transgender individual to take on leadership and production skills within the fermented beverage industry. She believes that taking these courses will provide her with the tools to help other trans/non-binary people with confidence as well as sharing the knowledge from these courses. Gabriel intends to create a space not only for herself, but for other LGBTQ+ members and beer enthusiasts who are prepared and eager to help redefine what craft beer is and can be for the next generation and on.

This fully online Business of Craft Brewing Certificate program, taught by industry experts, provides the knowledge and resources for aspiring and established craft brewing professionals to develop fully actionable business plans to launch new craft breweries or optimize existing business operations. While brewing is emphasized, distillery and cidery business models are also included.

In partnership with Yakima Chief Hops, Pink Boots Society is very excited to announce the recipients for the special Pink Boots Exclusive Yakima Chief Hops Experiential Trip scholarship: Katie Beaucage, Sharron Bockman, Erica DeAnda, Stephanie Hernandez, and Sarah Real!

Katie Beaucage recently became a Brewer at her dream brewery, Allagash Brewing Company in Portland, Maine. Since joining Pink Boots in 2017, she has participated in three Pink Boots Collaboration Brew Days®, two arm wrestling competitions, and hosted a malt workshop with maltress Andrea Stanley. She was also featured in a “Women of Beer” article in Yankee Brew News. Katie has also recently joined the Pink Boots Collaboration Brew Day® Committee and believes this scholarship will help give her a deeper understanding of hops and the harvesting process to help breweries around the world planning to participate in the 2022 Pink Boots Collaboration Brew Day®. She hopes the information she learns from this trip advances her skillset in the brewery, specifically for the pilot program and recipe development team.

Sharron Bockman is an Assistant Brewer at True Respite Brewing Company, a women owned brewery in Derwood, MD. Although she has only been a Pink Boots member for a year, Sharron has already participated in her first Pink Boots Collaboration Brew Day® where she conceptualized, designed, and brewed the juicy, pink dyed and glitter stuffed “Pink Glittery Boots” Hazy IPA. Sharron is researching and learning about sensory programs, and working to revamp the dry hopping program at her brewery. She believes this scholarship opportunity will provide her with the knowledge to implement sensory and dry hopping best practices for her local beer community. Sharron’s favorite part of the industry is the collaborative and supportive environment, and she is looking forward to the Yakima experiential trip.

As the Head Brewer and sole brewery employee at Tumbled Rock Brewery and Kitchen in Baraboo, WI, Erica “Dee” DeAnda handles every aspect of the brewery including recipe development, brew schedule, cellaring, and everything in between. She has been a Pink Boots member for six years and has hosted four Pink Boots Collaboration Brew Days®. Originally from California, Erica has been extremely active in both the Wisconsin and California Chapters. She believes that continuing her education with this experience will not only benefit her and Tumbled Rock, but also teach the local community about growing, producing, and enjoying the bounty of hops. She looks forward to bringing this knowledge back to their recently planted first small crop of hops near the brewery. Erica is known for advocating for under-represented groups within the beer industry and has been featured in Courage and Other C Words, Madison Magazine, and Wisconsin Public Radio.

Stephanie Hernandez embraces their role as Cellarperson at Federation Brewing in Oakland, CA with joyful enthusiasm and professionalism. Stephanie recently joined the San Francisco Chapter and is very excited to participate in the 2022 Pink Boots Collaboration Brew Day® for the first time. They find joining other women all over the world to create something different together inspiring and empowering. Stephanie believes that anyone can accomplish anything once they set their minds to it and hopes to help other underrepresented people be a part of something bigger. Stephanie is looking forward to getting their hands in the field with farmers at Yakima, face-to-face, to learn more about hops, and dreams of opening their own small brewery and eventually, growing a hop farm to support it.

Sarah Real is a co-founder of the brewery-in-planning, Hot Plate Brewing Co. She recently moved to Berkshires, MA from New York and has joined the Boston Chapter. While living in NY, she participated in the 2018 and 2019 Pink Boots Collaboration Brew Days®, where multiple local breweries worked together to brew on the same day. Sarah placed first in the Bitter British Beer category in the 2021 New York City Homebrewers Guild Homebrew Alley XV for the Easy-Listening Favourites brew. She was also featured on the Brews with Broads, Beer 101: Brewing Process Podcast. Sarah thrives on digging right into every aspect of brewing; she is very interested in how things work and the science behind it. She believes the knowledge gained from this invaluable experience will help advance her education exponentially, not only impacting the brewery she is starting as a solid building block, but will also help her transition into a full-time brewer.

Yakima Chief Hops is excited to offer an exclusive opportunity for five (5) Pink Boots Society members to travel to Yakima Valley for a three (3) day visit hosted by their very own Kelly Lohrmeyer. This trip includes a $500 airline stipend to offset travel costs, three (3) nights of lodging, three (3) lunches, transportation, and Meet & Greet Happy Hour/Dinner at Bale Breaker Brewing Company. Plus, tours of the Brewing, R and D, and Pellet Plant in Yakima as well as tours of the farm and of the new YCR Research Facility. But wait, there’s more! The five recipients will also experience sensory and PBS Hop Rub and Brew a Fresh Hop Beer with Single Hill Brewing!!

Pink Boots Society in partnership with 21st Amendment Brewery is proud to announce the recipient for the  eCornell Women in Leadership Certificate scholarship: Jade Leder!

Like many Pink Boots members, Jade wears many hats at St. Elmo Brewing Company. When she is not running the tap room, training employees or planning brewery events, she’s hosting book clubs for staff to bring awareness about inequality and racial injustice – a benefit her local Chapter in Austin receives as the Diversity and Inclusion Liaison. Jade has been a long time PBS member, participating in three Pink Boots Collaboration Brew Days® and attended both conferences in San Diego and Austin. The challenges of last year inspired Jade to seek ways to become a better leader to her staff, skills she is looking forward to developing from this certificate. What she won’t learn from this scholarship will be supplemented from life lessons of being a mom to two amazing girls! The work life balance is a challenge, but one that is giving her the confidence to take on more. Jade believes our industry needs more women in leadership roles and is anxious to share her experience from this scholarship with the Austin Chapter and PBS members.

This five-course certificate program examines the issues facing women in leadership positions and offers strategies for handling them. Professor Deborah Streeter balances academic research regarding social norms and expectations with practical strategies for operating effectively within the workplace. She discusses how to outmaneuver the “double bind” dilemma, showing strong leadership qualities without being penalized for it. Topics discussed by Professor Streeter within the Women in Leadership program include how women can best negotiate in the workplace, ways to effectively provide both positive and negative feedback and how they can strengthen their emotional intelligence to stand out as a leader among both men and women.

This Women in Leadership program positions women who are in leadership positions to recognize when there is a gender dimension at work and how they can out strategize gender bias and their own habits to achieve better results.

Pink Boots Society in partnership with 21st Amendment Brewery is delighted to announce the recipients for the Cicerone Level 2: Certified Cicerone Exams scholarship Kate Conway, Caroline Gilmer, and Kata Kiss.

Kate Conway is Co-owner and Director of Business Operations at Pickett Brewing Company, set to open at the new location in Baltimore, Maryland’s Pigtown neighborhood later in 2021. Although they are not officially open yet, they are still brewing small batches and brewed a golden ale for the 2021 Pink Boots Collaboration Brew Day©. While Kate has extensive experience in operations and development, she believes the knowledge gained from the Cicerone Level 2: Certified Cicerone course will help her to optimize the brewery by building strong connections and opportunities well into the future. Kate is the Finance Liaison of the newly established Greater Maryland Chapter, which was recently featured on the Brewer’s Association of Maryland’s Fermented Friday Chat. 

Shortly after starting as an unpaid apprentice, Caroline Gilmer was promoted to Assistant Brewer at Platt Park Brewing Company in Denver, CO. Her responsibilities include managing the quality control standard operating procedures, creating recipes, and brewing 1-barrel batches on the experimental kit, and reviving and managing the barrel program. Caroline’s goal is to one day become a Brew Master. She believes the Cicerone Level 2: Certified Cicerone course will advance her towards her goals faster and increase her involvement within Pink Boots Society. She also believes together, we can keep transforming the industry, starting with education and gaining new experiences.

Entrepreneur, Kata Kiss, is the Founder and CEO of Craftlabs, the only craft laboratory, and brewery consultant company of its kind in Hungary, where she provides analytical and microbiological testing for craft breweries. A majority of her work is devoted to troubleshooting, managing issues, and dealing with potential process improvements. Kata thinks the Cicerone Level 2: Certified Cicerone program is a unique opportunity to improve her performance and provide the best possible service for her clients. She believes it will allow her to gain more expertise and become a specialist in her field. 

Certified Cicerone is the second level of certification. Those who achieve this certification have a solid and well-rounded knowledge of beer and beer service as well as basic competence in assessing beer quality and identity by taste. The four-hour exam includes a written portion, tasting, and demonstration portions. It is given more than 100 times each year at sites across the US, Canada, and other international sites.

Pink Boots Society is proud to announce the recipient for the Barth Haas Hops Academy scholarship Lillian Schulz.

Lillian Schulz recently became a brewer at Right Proper Brewing Company in Washington, D.C. She also was the 2020 Pink Boots Collaboration Brew Day® Coordinator for the Washington, D.C. Chapter and was featured on the Beer Me! Podcast where she and another D.C. member promoted the brew, the Chapter and shared their experiences as women in production. The collaboration event offered her the opportunity to elevate and engage with other women in brewing, encouraging her to now be a Co-Leader. Lillian believes learning from the experts at Barth Haas Hops Academy will help build upon her own experiences to become a more capable brewer, innovator, and problem-solver.

Barth Haas Hops Academy course is a two-day on-site course consisting of presentations by hop and brewing experts in September 2021 (dates TBD) at Haas Innovations center in Yakima, WA, USA. This course will cover topics including new trends in hop breeding, hop chemistry and brewing techniques. Guest speakers include top researchers and growers presenting on new hop varieties, products, usage, and analytical and sensory evaluation techniques to gauge hop and beer quality. In addition, the course includes tours of the Haas hop farm and production facility, where attendees will experience the hop fields and witness all components of hop production from whole hops to CO2 extract, as well as a guided tour of Haas Innovations Research Brewery.

In partnership with BBL, Inc. USA Delirium, Pink Boots Society is excited to announce the recipient for the 2022 Deliria Brew Day Experiential Scholarship, Becky Peppelman.

Becky Peppelman is currently the head brewer and consultant at Conflux Brewing Company in Missoula, MT. Along with helping to reset the brewery, she dedicates much of her time to training, educating, and working with staff on lesser-known beer styles and food pairings. Becky has hosted Pink Boots Collaboration Brew Days® in the past, but 2021 was the first team consisting of almost solely production workers, making the uplifting experience one she will remember for the rest of her life. Becky has been a Pink Boots member for six years and has been the Montana Chapter Finance Liaison for the last 2 years, where she frequently helps lead and organize Chapter events as well as promotes education and inspiration to her fellow members. Becky is looking forward to her next venture of opening a new brewery as head brewer in her hometown of Helena, MT., focusing on classic European beer styles. She believes the Deliria Brew Day Experiential Trip scholarship will not only give her the opportunity to brew a once-a-year beer with passionate females, but it will also broaden her understanding of traditional Belgian brewing and beer styles. 

BBL, Inc. USA Deliria Brew Day Experiential Scholarship is an onsite experience in January 2022 in Ghent, Belgium where the recipient will participate in Delirum’s annual Deliria Brew Day. This beer is made by women every year to celebrate International Women’s Day on March 8th. Local travel, hotel accommodations, beer, and meals are provided by Delirium as well as a travel stipend from PBS.