Celebrating International Women's Collaboration Brew Day along the Riverway
International Women’s Collaboration Brew Day is a worldwide annual event that takes place on March 8th of every year in conjunction with International Women’s Day. 
According to a Brewers Association benchmarking survey, women only make up about 7.5% of professional brewers. In order to help women advance careers in the craft beer industry, several Riverway breweries are participing in women’s brew day.
Here’s a list of beers created or brewed by women in celebration of International Women’s Day in the Riverway:
A women majority owned brewery, N.E.W. Ales is very excited to be able to fully
enjoy Women’s Collaboration Brew Day!! Co-owners Nikki and Beth designed a new recipe and are brewing a West Coast Style IPA with pineapple, and calling it "Hoptaschick"! The IPA is 7.5% ABV. Born from the idea that women enjoy a mouthful of hoppy bitterness, Hoptaschick delivers just that. Featuring heavy doses of Strata and Topaz hops, then splashed with 11 pounds of pineapple per BBL, you’ll find notes of citrus and pine in perfect balance. To spread the work about women's brew day, and to give back to the community, they had a local, female artist, Liz Paulson, draw up a design to sell as a sticker, with parts of the proceeds going to the Women’s Hope House in Middletown. They will start selling Hoptaschick when their Biergarten reopens March 26th and then they will be open Fridays 5-10 and Saturdays 4-10.
The Mayor of Miamisburg, Michelle Collins, will be joining the brewery on March 8th as they brew a Saison; “Ball & Chain” that day.
In honor of International Women’s Day, the ladies of Star City Brewing have made a Spicy Honey Brown Ale which they’re calling “Honey, I’m feeling spicy.” They are tapping their beer on Saturday the 13th and from every pint sold that day, $0.50 will be donated to the Artemis Domestic Violence Center of downtown Dayton.
On Monday, March 8 from 11am – 7pm the female staff of Dayton History take the helm on a batch of their historical “Carillon Coriander Ale”. The public is invited to come in on Monday, enjoy their ales, and engage with staff and the brewing team as they brew the historic Coriander Ale recipe. The recipe comes from an 1831 publication entitled Receipts For the Husbandman and Housewife, essentially a guide on how to properly raise a family. The publication emphasizes the brewing of beer by the housewife as an essential role in maintaining the health and wellbeing of the family. The female role as the primary brewer dominates history but waned with the advent of the industrialization of the beer brewing process.
