Welcome to another in our Women and Beer videos series.  Meet Mariah Calagione, wife of Sam Calagione, from Dogfish Head Brewery.    Filming took place at the Sierra Grille in Northampton, MA at their Night Before the Night Before Christmas – Dogfish Head Vintage Beer Dinner.  Mariah talks to us about her role with Dogfish Head Brewery.

Men tend to dominate the beer world.  Through this series of videos we hope to show the world that although women are not always on the front lines, they are an integral part of the craft beer industry.  Certainly more integral than bouncing around in bikinis on beer commercials.

The craft beer industry with its many flavorful offerings, has made beer more appealing to a female audience.  Through this series we hope to dispel the myths and perhaps help some of the guys out their understand the female palette so they can share their love of beer with their wife or girlfriend.  If you missed it check out our interview with the Beer Babe, a fellow advocate for women and craft beer. Stay tuned for more videos in this series, until then cheers from here for the beer.

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In this episode I share a beer and some conversation with the Beer-Babe, Carla Companion, who you may know from her popular beer blog on blogspot.  The Beer-Babe’s blog focuses on beer reviews, I have been a fan of her blog for quite some time.  Steering clear of becoming another pretentious review site, the Beer Babe focuses on putting beer into simple language that the novice beer drinker can understand and relate to.  Naturally The Beer Babes blog also offers a “woman’s perspective on beer”.  The statistics show that women tend to be a more “novice” beer drinker and that women only make up about 25% of the beer drinking population.   What a disappointingly small number.  The Beer Babe Blog, along with other girl-centric beer sites like Beer for Chicks and Women in Beer are working to break typical stereotypes women have about beer and to make good beer more approachable to the uninitiated.  Hopefully these sites will convince more women to join the good beer revolution, once they see what they’ve been missing – I don’t think keeping them around will be much of a challenge!

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