The Paris Independent
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March 12, 2022
L O C A L S I P S & E AT S
BEERS WITHOUT BEARDS Travelling Pint
with Tiffany Martin
This month we mark International Women’s Day, a time to continue to celebrate the role that women play in our lives as well as the craft beer industry. It’s also as great a time as any to continue to push for more equal gender representation in craft beer. Humans have been drinking beer for almost 7,000 years, and from fermenting fruit, honey, and rice in China to creating the world's first barley beer in Mesopotamia, women have been involved in beer since the very beginning- and in fact, women were the first to brew and sell this delicious beverage and in some places the first tavern owners! Women drink beer, and this likely isn’t shocking news as there’s a good chance you know a woman, or several, who drink beer, or you do yourself. Women also brew, package, sell, write about and market beer around the world. Continued on Page 17
Female workers roll casks of beer across the floor at a brewery in Cheshire, September 1918, “The Employment of Women in Britain, 1914-1918” (Wikimedia Commons | Public Domain)
Flux Brewing X Farm League Brewing collaboration day with a rad team of women. Photo supplied by Tiffany Martin