The Week Ahead In Beer: Pink Flowers and Pink Boots!

Spring hath sprung! Pink and white flowers abound in trees everywhere, the skies are at war between wind, rain, snow, and sun. Catch some awesome hops for a marvelous cause this Thursday, and then indulge in all things coffee and chocolate and beyond, this weekend at Southwest Chocolate & Coffee Fest. Hop Heroine Pale Ale,…

Steel Bender brewer decisively cements her place on the staff

As the late Ruth Bader Ginsberg wisely said, “Women belong in all places where decisions are being made.” And that, of course, includes breweries, where countless decisions are made every single day. Thousands of years ago brewing was a female-dominated craft, but the widespread industrialization of brewing over the past few centuries caused it to…

Crushing the can game at Second Street and beyond

Second Street Brewery’s design team has just won some major national awards for craft beer can design, but the best part about the local Santa Fe brewery’s design team is that technically it’s a one-woman show, Mariah Cameron Scee. Scee also designed the can for Pink Boots Society beer, Essential Pie, that was released today….

NM chapter of Pink Boots Society set for collaboration brew day at Canteen

Canteen Brewhouse will have a lot of extra folks manning the brewhouse this Friday morning. The catch is that none of them are actually men. The women of the New Mexico chapter of the Pink Boots Society will be gathering for their fifth annual collaboration beer day, which happens to fall just before International Women’s…