Bitches Brew: Women Make Gains in the Beer World:

When the women we know belly-up to a bar, they’re more likely to order a pint of beer than a glass of wine or a frilly cocktail. We’re suckers for Surly’s CynicAle and Fulton’s Sweet Child of Vine, both from the rollicking Minneapolis beer-brewing scene. Still, drinking and brewing beer continue to be viewed as primarily male territory.

As it turns out, this split of the sexes is all wrong, says Bitch magazine’s Celena Cipriaso: Women have brewed beer since Babylonian times and female brewers permeate world folklore. Historian Alan D. Eames reinforces the depths of women’s claims on beer, explaining, “From its very inception some 8,000 years ago, every ancient society’s beer-creation myth tells the same story: The drink was a gift from a female deity to the women of that community.”

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Are you among the “anti-creative” class? Floating Sheep made this map to show “places where the ability to be usefully creative would be severely compromised, i.e., where the price of marijuana is low and the available of bars is high.” Interesting trend overlap going on in the Midwest … (H/T Atlantic Cities)

It’s a fair guess that doing a good deed never had such a rich taste and crisp, satisfying finish.

The Oregon Public House, a new nonprofit in the Portland neighborhood of Woodlawn, will serve up microbrews and food and donate the profits to local charities of the beer lovers’ choice.

Reporting on the venture, Portland’s Neighborhood Notes says that Portland has more brewpubs and nonprofits per capita than any other U.S. city. “Why not connect these two strengths,” Public House organizer Ryan Saari asks the blog-driven news site, “and make it easy for people to support two passions at once?” Keep reading …

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Want to know how to make zero-waste beer? A lot of beer makers are incorporating green practices into their brewing operations, but New Chicago Brewery is taking it to a wholly different level. Read more …

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The United States of GOOD Beer

Summit in Minnesota and New Glarus for our neighbors to the east.

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Although this infographic is quibbleworthy, craft beer nerds should take note.