Why 'Ready to Roll' Grapefruit IPA Collab is YOUR Beer

 

   

   So you didn't get to actually brew our beer collaboration with Stemma Brewing Co. and you hear me keep calling it YOUR beer or OUR beer and you are thinking to yourself, "Well, it's not really mine, not technically."  Well, I'm here to tell you why that's not in the slightest possible way true and I'm gonna tell you why!

    Two years ago on August 13th I officially took the leap and started PNW Beer Moms and we had our first in-person meet up that September in Bellingham.  Since then we have grown to over 1000 members through out the PNW, with multiple chapters meeting up in person (or planning to) and even more relationships have been forged across Facebook and Instagram.  

     We've taken brewery tours, had our own virtual tasting, played bingo, zoomed, thrown axes, gotten tipsy on a boat, rushed beer festivals, held food/diaper/book drives, beaten out trivia masters, shared beer and brewery recommendations, paired cookies with beer, gone on Galentines dates, exchanged beer and always lifted each other up on the hard mom days, all while drinking an extreme amount of really really great beer, ciders, and seltzers!

   So what's that have to do with the beer WE brewed? Well, here it is: There is no way that any of this, this beer with our logo on the label, this beer that is going to such a wonderful (close to a mama's heart) cause, this beer that is going to be in tap houses and bottle shops for all to see and taste, would have ever happened if it wasn't for ALL IF YOU being PNW Beer Moms. If it wasn't for all of you wonderful PNW Beer Moms right behind me, I would have been laughed right out of the taproom. You made this happen. 

   So from the very bottom of my heart, with tears in my eyes, thank YOU for brewing this beer. Thank you for making this stay at home mom of two, that happens to drink beer as a hobby and wanted like minded beer mom friends to share it with, a very happy woman. So please be proud of yourself for making this beer and OWN it! Rub it in people's faces. Tell them how moms are an important part of the beer industry and if they scoff at you, you put on your best mom voice and you ask them. "Well, where is your beer? And where are your friends?"

    So I raise a glass to all of you for making PNW Beer Moms something special, something we can all be proud of! And let us continue to drink the good drinks and do the good things and be the best moms we can be. May your children's will be strong, but your beer stronger! Cheers!