NEW from Pink Boots Society! Webinars will be available as an educational membership benefit and can be accessed On-Demand after the fact.
Upcoming Webinars
A Journey into Yeast Selection and Management for Exceptional Brewing
Broadcast Date: Tuesday, June 27, 2023 | Time TBD
Join us on Tuesday, June 27, at TBD pm Central Time for a presentation on yeast selection, management and more from Mara Young, Co-Owner and Founder of Community Cultures Yeast Lab (“CCYL”).
This educational session will address various topics that came up during our recent Microbes 101 Member Roundtable that are covered in CCYL’s education, including:
- Buying the yeast strains
- Selecting pitch rates
- Harvesting the yeast from the fermenter
- How to store, manage, check, feed, count, and re-pitch the yeast
This session will also cover multiple generations, when to throw the yeast away, and how to build yourself a small lab to check for viability, cell count, and bacteria.
About the Presenter
In 2016, Mara Young and Rob Green started Texas Cultures Laboratories, now named Community Cultures Yeast Lab. Prior to that, Mara worked for about 15 years in higher education. She was the Director of Biology at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio, advising for the School of Math, Science, and Engineering.
Her current role as a Managing Member of Community Cultures Yeast Lab consists of everything on the business side, from the website, marketing, responding to and fulfilling yeast orders, inventory, invoicing, shipping, and everyday operations; to the yeast management side, which consists of daily brewing, cleaning the tanks, keeping stock of the yeast bank, sourcing and developing new yeast strains, as well as lab analysis both for their own quality control, and also for brewery clients who send in beer samples for testing or label approval. Mara is also the chief boss lady of mopping, dishes, and bathroom cleaning
On-Demand Webinars
Eye to Eye Happy Hour: How to make your business accessible for the visually impaired and blind community
Broadcast Date: May 23, 2023 | 6:00 PM Central
Make your business more accessible with just a few clicks! Have you ever imagined what it would be like to see your business through someone else’s eyes? Ever wondered how it would feel if that customer’s eyes didn’t work like everyone else’s?
The webinar will include:
- An overview of encounters that Mary faces when attending businesses
- A guided experience to creating a more accessible website, business, and more!
- The secrets to create a truly inclusive and accessible space
This will have you empowered to:
- Create a positive and memorable experience and space that can be enjoyed by everyone
- Make more thoughtful business decisions
- Build trust and respect within your local community
- Continue to educate your team about accessibility challenges
About the Presenter:
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Mary Kathryn LeMaster, Speaker, Advocate for the Blind, Accessibility + Mindfulness Consultant + Legally Blind Visionary. Mary’s goal is to spread awareness about blindness, break outdated stereotypes and teach businesses how to make their places and spaces accessible for my community and all disability communities. One out of every three people is visually impaired and is looking for more places that are easily accessible. Let’s make your space one of them beginning with your website, social media, and physical space. She will show you how! |
Going from Tasting to Evaluating: Sensory Science Basics
Broadcast Date: April 25, 2023 | 3:00 PM Central
We all know how to taste beer, but tasting differs from evaluating. In this webinar, you will learn how to become a better beer evaluator, and you’ll be surprised to learn that it has very little to do with your tastebuds! By understanding the basic principles of Sensory Science, brewers and beer lovers can gain the skills required to become knowledgeable sensory panelists and beer evaluators. You’ll learn what goes on behind the scenes in a well-run sensory panel: the proper sensory methods to use for different objectives, how to account for bias, and the type of training required to gain actionable sensory data. Everything we cover will help you professionalize your tastings and gain confidence when sitting on any sensory panel.
About the Speaker:
 Lindsay Barr DraughtLabs Sensory Software |
Lindsay is the CSO and Founding Partner of DraughtLab Sensory Software where she works with food and beverage companies to apply tasting data to inform Product Development and Quality Control. Lindsay got her start at New Belgium Brewing Company as the Sensory and Consumer Research Specialist. For five years she served as the chair of the American Society of Brewing Chemists Sensory Committee where she co-authored seven new globally adopted sensory evaluation techniques. She holds a B.S. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of New Mexico, and a Masters in Food Science and Technology from the University of California, Davis. With DraughtLab, she’s published numerous industry-standard lexicons, including the Beer Flavor Map™, and is continuing to develop tools that make the world a more delicious place. |
Auto Buying 101 sponsored by On Tap Credit Union
Broadcast Date: September 20, 2022 | 4:00 PM Central Time
When inventory is low, finding the car you want with a good rate can be difficult. Getting pre-approved for financing, doing the necessary research, and negotiating prices are just some of the steps necessary when buying your car. Join the On Tap Credit Union team for tips to guide you on the road to purchasing your next vehicle and what the true cost of ownership really is.
Product Lifecycle Management – Building transparency cross-functionally & creating efficiencies with Tia DuHamel of the Cross Flow Group
Broadcast Date: January 17, 2023
Tia DuHamel will discuss overseeing the entire life cycle of a product and process of bringing brands to market – from initial concept, to brand registrations, art deadlines, scheduling with production, deadlines of sales assets; all the way to launch in a tap room or shipping to distributor partners. Learn best practices for your business and how to get started introducing new systems into your organization.
This webinar will outline one size in regard to product life cycle does not fill all, and recognize the need for different lead times with each product mix offering. Attendees will gain a better understanding of their organizations milestones & obstacles, best practices to implement, and introducing new systems to their organizations while garnishing buy in from their teams.
The Gravity of Accessibility in our Fermented Beverages Industry Spaces
Broadcast Date: February 21, 2023 | 1:00 PM Central
This Webinar is a panel discussion exploring accessibility and how it impacts our society and businesses – in both virtual and brick-and-mortar craft beverage communities. This panel will feature fermented beverage business owners who have made accessibility an integral aspect of their business model.
Attendees will learn the foundation and basics of accessibility, from the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) Accessibility Standards to Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (“WCAG”) and Section 508 Standards.
Additional topics to be discussed include:
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- Accessibility challenges in the fermented beverages industry
- Examples of impactful accommodations and testimonials
- The basics of an accessibility statement and why your business needs one
- How universal design can create a more inclusive environment for everyone
Our organization’s Educational Webinar and DEIJ Webinar Series are a vital part of our ongoing commitment and efforts toward providing more educational and DEIJ opportunities to our members and industry featuring topics of interest to our membership.
Cultural Appreciation vs Appropriation: A conversation on honoring our identities the right way
Broadcast Date: March 21, 2023 | 1:00 PM Central
We will have a living exposé of people from diverse backgrounds exchanging perspectives – sharing a true testament of their lifestyle and culture. We will consider Cultural and Lifestyle lexicons that should be considered to be a true reflection of Cultural Appreciation. We will explore the colloquialisms that have been used to gain profit but not empathy for understanding. We will share practical tips on how to plan and promote an event that celebrates and respects culture in an authentic way. “The beauty of the world lies in the diversity of people”~ Unknown
With a decade of experience in the alcohol industry, a passion for encouraging personal and professional growth, and her trademark wit, Ren Navarro is here to educate, enlighten, and engage. Since launching Beer. Diversity. in 2018, Ren has become a known name at breweries, wineries, distilleries, and beyond. She has given talks on diversity and inclusion at several colleges and countless festivals, panels, radio shows, and podcasts throughout the world. In addition to being a diversity educator, she is a craft beer consultant for bars and restaurants in Ontario and an educator for countless businesses throughout the country.
Beer. Diversity. is more than just a company that educates; it’s a resource built from the passion and love of the industry to do better and be better. Navarro’s experience in public speaking and history in the drinks world, alongside her perspective as a queer Black woman, makes her an essential voice in the work and outreach involved in creating a welcoming and diverse environment for beverage producers and imbibers of all backgrounds.
Taking steps. Wanting change. Having the desire and the tools to put in the work to be an agent of change. That’s what Beer. Diversity. is about. Together we can do better. Together we can be better.
Rachael Engel has been in the brewing industry since 1999, working for breweries up and down the west coast from California to British Columbia. She came out as transgender in 2017 and since then has striven to support women–especially LGBTQIA+ women–in the brewing industry. She had hosted Pink Boots Collab brews annually since 2019 and is a member of both the Pink Boots DEI committee and the Brewers Association DEI education subcommittee. She lives in Poulsbo, Washington with her wife and five cats.
Angi Thomas a Texan native who has worked in the telecommunications industry for the last 25 years. Her secondary occupation gives focus into the fermentable industry. Her definite passion has been Beer. This happened by sheer accident while helping at a beer festival. Her thirst and curiosity were the two leading factors for her to trying beer. This has flourished her secondary career in Branding.
Angi has been a Brand Ambassador for several organizations. She has been a consultant for sales and marketing for such companies as Bacardi, Maximum Beverage, Pourtastic, Flow Wine Group, Dragon Spirits Marketing, and more. She has been on demand for the last 11 years for companies such as Heineken, Yuengling, Revolver, Constellation, Sugarland, etc.
Angi has had Beer 101 classes for BIWOC who consider themselves “novice” drinkers. This unwavering desire ignited her devotion and continued effort to share knowledge to BIPOC market. Angi has earned her Cicerone Certified Beer Server during the pandemic and currently working toward her BJCP credentials.
Angi is the Moderator for Being Black in Craft. This is a weekly chat on echoes why we must illuminate the need for more BIPOC/BIWOC involvement for all in the Fermentable across the United States and abroad. Angi fulfills roles in the Pink Boot Society Organization as President of Pink Boots North Texas, Pink Boots DEIJ Co-committee Leader, and Pink Boots Volunteer Liaison.
Lindsay Malu Kido founded and runs Beer for Everyone, a media organization that serves to advocate for diversity, inclusion, equity, and justice through education and advocacy. She is a mixed-Indigenous of the Kanaka Maoli and Uchinaanchu nations and part-Japanese. She was born and raised in Hawai’i and moved to Las Vegas, Nevada (unceded lands of the Southern Paiute) in 2014.
Lindsay is in the final semesters of her PhD in Indigenous Education, and my dissertation is entitled: Explorations of Indigenous Body Image & Body Sovereignty: Re-presenting Our Indigenous Selves through Stories and Photography.
