Today we share this super popular WIBS 21 session titled How to Build A Recipe. Featuring Cat Wiest and moderated by Tyler & Laurie of the Brewd ‘up podcast. We unfortunately had some technical difficulties with our moderators intro so it may sound a bit harsh as we jump right in here with Cat but we do get to hear from Tyler and Laurie towards the end of the talk so all is not lost.   Cat tells us a bit about herself and how she came to brewing and then dives right in to dropping the knowledge. First thing in designing your recipe is to ask yourself what your goal is. Do you hav ..read more

Today’s talk was part of WIBS 22 and is title Beer: A Story About Power featuring Tinu Diver (river) a film maker living in North Carolina. She  opens this talk with the Obama beer summit and quickly get to know this talented and impassioned film maker.  As she reveals her journey to beer and the genesis of her documentary project, This Belongs To Us,   we hear how important it was for her to find black beer culture and what a revelation that was for her. She shares her belief that beer needs new stories, fuller, truer and more nuanced and expansive and in the end who is telling ..read more

Today’s podcast features our Content Strategy for Digital Creators from WIBS 2021. Moderated by Ash Eliot, who you likely know from Women of the Bevolution and Brave Noise, our speakers Sarah Flora and Natalya Watson share with us how they got into beer and the road to being educators in that space. Nat chats transferrable skills to get into the industry, Sarah gives some tips on how to get started in homebrewing and then we dive into the content creator strategy. They discuss the importance of goals when crafting content and each breaks down how they approach content strategy for different pl ..read more

Listen in as Natalie Baldwin, then R&D brewer for Breakside Brewing in Portland, OR and Ashleigh Carter, co-owner and head brewer at Bierstadt Lagerhaus talks beer collabs! These two share their views on why your brewery should or should not collaborate;  what guidelines should you put in place to determine if a particular collab is right for your brewery and the importance of learning when collaborating. They discuss the collab beer they made at Bierstadt and their then upcoming collab at Breakside. And of course you can’t talk to Ashleigh Carter without questions about her brewing ..read more

Listen in as Natalie Baldwin, then R&D brewer for Breakside Brewing in Portland, OR and Ashleigh Carter, co-owner and head brewer at Bierstadt Lagerhaus talks beer collabs! These two share their views on why your brewery should or should not collaborate;  what guidelines should you put in place to determine if a particular collab is right for your brewery and the importance of learning when collaborating.  They discuss the collab beer they made at Bierstadt and their then upcoming collab at Breakside. And of course you can’t talk to Ashleigh Carter without questions about her br ..read more

This week we are going to explore a topic that so many of our WIBS attendees were asking for, going from a homebrewer to a head brewer. Once that homebrew bug bites you that aren’t many of us who don’t think about opening our own brewery. While only a select few actually pull the trigger and successfully follow through, we wanted to bring you this talk with Teresa Psuty & Ellen Sherrill of Crooked Lane Brewing to tell you their stories, their road to making beer and provide some wonderful advice, practical tips and guidance along the way.   So let’s pop open a homebrew and listen in ..read more

This 2021 Women's International Beer Summit session was one of the most popular amongst both commercial brewers and homebrewers Join one of the premier German inspired lager brewers in the country as Ashleigh Carter of Bierstadt Lagerhaus in Denver, CO gives you ALL the tips and tricks to take you lager brewing to the next level.  Ashleigh walks us through her entire process from recipe formuiation, mashing techniques and considerations, hop selection, yeast pitch rates, fermenting temps and schedules to really help you to nail traditionaly brewed lagers. This session was moderated by Mon ..read more

Today we are very excited to bring you this session which was one of the most anticipated of the 2022 Women’s International Beer Summit. This is a roundtable discussion titled Making Noise for a Safe & Discrimination-Free Beer Industry. Featuring Brienne Allen, professional brewer and co-founder of  the Brave Noise collaborative brew initiative, Ren Navarro a diversity educator and founder of Beer. Diversity, Jen Blair , an Advanced Cicerone, National BJCP Beer Judge and founder of Under the Jenfluence and moderated by Ruvani de Silva, a travel loving beer writer who was recognized as ..read more