Crafty Women: In the region's craft beer industry, women play some key roles
Date: 09/08/2011
From the Post-Gazette: The craft beer world still is a very male one, but there are more and more women who are making craft beer, selling it, writing and broadcasting about it, and of course drinking it.
Here -- while the local scene celebrates the first Big Pour Week of beery events surrounding Saturday's sold-out Steel City Big Pour at Construction Junction in Point Breeze -- meet some of Western Pennsylvania's craft beer women, whom you also might actually meet at a Big Pour event. Find the full list at constructionjunction.org/pages/bigpour.
Chris Dilla and Tera Bevilacqua
Dilla: Founder and owner, Bocktown Beer & Grill; Bevilacqua: Beer librarian, Bocktown Beer & Grill
Chris Dilla has just this week "gave birth to" her second Bocktown Beer & Grill -- this one in the Beaver Valley Mall near Monaca, complementing the one in North Fayette that opened in 2006 (bocktown.com). She promises to tell the world more details at the Big Pour, where both she and Ms. Bevilacqua will be working and playing.
She's succeeding with blood, sweat and beers.
She's heavily into using social media (she's @uncapd on Twitter) to promote her business and craft beer, especially local craft beer (she's been one of two women, the other being Penn's Sandy Cindrich, in a group working to start a Pittsburgh Beer Week), so she stays crazy busy. As she notes on her blog uncapd.wordpress.com, "She's dreaming of five restaurants in the area, and a future where she actually has time to blog, consult and play with her dog, Growler."
