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“Historically, beer is like a ‘man thing’ and I think that has changed a lot.”
as excited to be in the back “I just don’t want brewing as a homebrewer you found to be like a boys club. It off the street who’s a guy,” doesn’t need to be,” Sherrill Steger said. said. “I want to see women Physical strength isn’t an being taken seriously for their issue, she adds. ideas and creativity.” “I don’t have brawn to Scott Powell, co-owner of any degree, but I’ve surprised Jackrabbit Brewing, says the myself with some of the applications he sees are largely things that I can move around from men, but when Sherrill back here,” she said. applied for the job he hired her A large number of women based on her passion for the in the craft beer industry industry and her homebrewing work in taprooms, but Ellen background. Sherrill, a brewer at Track “There are more female 7’s Natomas and Curtis Park applicants and more involvelocations, says the physical ment,” Powell said. “A lot of labor of production is actually it’s attitude and eagerness. comparable to baking. Yet, It’s people interested in the more men continue to hold science and the quality of EllEn ShErrill those positions. beer.” brewer, Track 7 brewing co. “Historically, beer is like Up in El Dorado Hills, a ‘man thing’ and I think Lauren Zehnder is manager that has changed a lot,” Sherrill said. “I’m hoping and Jane of all trades at Mraz Brewing Company. that women as beer drinkers drive more women She manages the staff, sales and marketing in into being involved in making beer. It’s slow, but conjunction with owner, Mike Mraz. She’s also steady.” the first female board member, and as of March, Sherrill started as a homebrewer, making first woman president of the Sacramento Area batches of beer she enjoyed drinking before getting Brewer’s Guild, the organization behind the annual hired at Jackrabbit Brewing Company in West Sacramento Beer Week. Sacramento, where she worked for more than a Over the years, she says, she’s seen a steady year. shift in perceptions. Today, she still enjoys homebrewing but it’s “More and more men in the industry realize strictly mead and cider, a change from her work when a woman walks in the room she might routine at Track 7. She’s also a certified beer judge be just as knowledgeable and have just as for local craft beer competitions and the annual much to contribute to the beer conversation,” California State Fair beer contests. Zehnder said. Ω
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