Central Mass. breweries release female-driven beers to celebrate Women’s History Month
Photo | Courtesy of Redemption Rock Brewing Co.
Breweries in Central Massachusetts are celebrating Women's History Month with their own female brewed and inspired beers. Nice Docs is Redemption Rock Brewing Co.'s beer in collaboration with the Pink Boots Society.
A half dozen craft breweries in Framingham, Marlborough, Worcester, and throughout Central Massachusetts are creating and selling female-driven beers in March in support of Women’s History Month and the nonprofit The Pink Boots Society.
March is Women’s History Month, and to commemorate that the national nonprofit organization The Pink Boots Society, which supports women working in the brewing profession, hosts its own Pink Boots Collaboration Brew Day to celebrate women and non-binary individuals in the fermented and alcoholic beverage industry, mainly brewing. Breweries participating in the specific Pink Boots brew day and mission donate proceeds of sales of the beer to help fund scholarships and other Pink Boots efforts to help inspire more women and non-binary individuals to get into brewing.
Women’s History Day was first recognized by the United Nations in 1977 as March 8. In the United States, the first Women’s History Week was created by President Jimmy Carter in 1980. It became a fixture when it was first signed into proclamations in 1995 and has since been signed annually by every president since.
Pink Boots Society began at a craft brewers conference in 2008 and started its mission to make breweries more inclusive. In 2013, it hosted its first women’s brew day, and since then it has grown and become an annual fixture in the craft brewing calendar. Today, breweries in Central Massachusetts have begun to diversify their brewery missions this month to put a focus on the women’s causes they feel closely align to their mission and hearts.
Here is the running tally of the female-driven beers Central Massachusetts breweries are releasing in March.
Lost Shoe Brewing and Roasting Co., Marlborough
Packaged and released on International Women's Day, March 8, Lost Shoe brewed a brewed a 7% IPA with passionfruit, pineapple and strawberry called These Boots Were Made for Mashin'. The brewery’s assistant brewer, Rachel Stillman, and eight other employees of the brewery helped with brewing and packaging. The label was designed by three of the brewery’s bartenders The brewery will be making a donation to the Pink Boots Society, Boston Chapter.
Exhibit ‘A’ Brewing Co., Framingham
Exhibit ‘A’ Brewing Co. will brew its Pink Boots beer on March 23 with an expected release in April. This year’s beer will feature an all-female supply chain and be a German Hefeweizer called Salem's End. It will use the Pink Boots Hop Blend from Yakima Chief Hops and Girl Power Pilsner Malt from Valley Malt, an all women grown, processed, and malted grain. The recipe was developed by female brewers and will be led by Dara Klotz, a brewer at Exhibit ‘A’. It will be packaged by women.
Redemption Rock Brewing Co., Worcester
The Worcester brewery is brewing an American porter called Nice Docs, and it will feature chocolate wheat and chocolate rye from Valley Malt and Cascade hops from Four Star Farms, which is also a woman-owned business. A portion of all sales will go to The Pink Boots Society.
Wormtown Brewery, Worcester
Wormtown brews She Hoppy twice a year: March for Women’s History Month and in October to commemorate the first National Woman's Rights Convention, which took place in Worcester on Oct. 23, 1850. The 7% hazy New England IPA is brewed by a female brew team. Donations will go to Dignity Matters, a Worcester charity that collects, purchases, and supplies menstrual products, bras, and underwear to women and girls who are homeless or disadvantaged. The brewery is donating $1 for each pint pour at the taproom and $2 for four-pack sales from the taproom until supplies last.
Seven Saws Brewing Co., Holden
Seven Saws brewed and packaged its Women of the Woods IPA, which was brewed by all women on its staff, in honor of Women's History Month. A portion of proceeds from the beer will be donated to the Abby's House nonprofit in Worcester.
Timberyard Brewing Co., East Brookfield
This year, Timberyard brewed an ode to a dance hall called Lashaway Dance Pavilion and nicknamed Mosquito Ballroom, which existed in North Brookfield from 1937-1942 or so. The dance hall was owned by the brewery’s taproom General Manager Kate Ohanesian’s great-grandparents and where her grandparents met. Mosquito Ballroom will be a dry-hopped farmhouse IPA with lemongrass, lavender, and rosemary, which are botanicals known to repel mosquitoes. It will be released on March 25 with live music from The Orleans Kids, and Rosie Porter and the Neon Moons. A portion of the proceeds will benefit the Pink Boots Society.
River Styx Brewing, Fitchburg
The female and non-binary members as well as family and friends of the River Styx team brewed Athena #6: Mimosa Hercules this year. The New England style IPA was brewed with Valencia orange and champagne and it will be released in April. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Boston chapter of the Pink Boots Society.
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