A Womans Place Is in the Brewhouse, Tara Nurin
A Womans Place Is in the Brewhouse, Tara Nurin
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A Woman's Place Is in the Brewhouse
A Forgotten History of Alewives, Brewsters, Witches, and CEOs

Author: Tara Nurin, Teri Fahrendorf

Narrator: Nancy Peterson

Unabridged: 10 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/21/2021


Synopsis

It's women, not men, who've brewed beer throughout most of human history. Their role as family and village brewer lasted for hundreds of thousands of years—through the earliest days of Mesopotamian civilization, the reign of Cleopatra, the witch trials of Medieval and Renaissance Europe, and the settling of colonial America. A Woman's Place Is in the Brewhouse celebrates the contributions of female brewers and explores the forces that have erased them from the brewing world.

It's a history that's simultaneously inspiring and demeaning. Wherever and whenever the cottage brewing industry has grown profitable, politics, religion, and capitalism have grown greedy. Men have repeatedly seized control and forced women out of the business. Other times, women have simply lost the minimal independence, respect, and economic power brewing brought them.

But there are more breweries now than at any time in American history and today women serve as founder, CEO, or head brewer at more than one thousand of them.

As women continue to work hard for equal treatment and recognition in the industry, author Tara Nurin shows that women have been—and are once again becoming—relevant in the brewing world.

About Tara Nurin

Tara Nurin is the beer and spirits contributor to Forbes and an adjunct Beer 101 instructor at Wilmington University. The former major-market TV news reporter has been the Libations columnist for New Jersey Monthly, the women-in-beer columnist for Ale Street News, and the cohost of the What's on Tap weekly beer TV show. Her work has been published in more than fifty newspapers, magazines, and digital platforms such as Food + Wine, USA Today, and Wine Enthusiast. She is certified by the Beer Judge Certification Program and serves as a frequent expert and host in the media and in educational programming. She lives outside of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Max

3.5 stars: This is an important book, and I really wanted to love it, but several aspects held it back from being what I was truly hoping for. While this book was filled with interesting snippets and the stories of many of the most important women in craft beer in America from the last 50 years, it......more

Goodreads review by Rebecca

Overall a great book, but not a comprehensive history, probably more of a 3.5. There was less on the history of women as the main brewers & sellers of beer than I was expecting, particularly given the blurb, there was a heavy focus instead on the recent American history. The author does include brie......more