Posted By: Stevie Caldarola

The following is from an email newsletter from Private Tap:

 SHE’S CRAFTY LAUNCHES!

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Chicks and beer are culturally estranged (the St. Pauli Girl is the closest thing we have to a beer icon). But despite all busty misconceptions, the fact is, chicks dig beer – good beer. Thank goodness, then, for Nune Boyadjian, Los Angeles transplant and founder of She’s Crafty, a craft beer forum for like-minded, hops and malt-loving ladies.

The group is Boyadjian’s “if you build it, they will come” solution to the apparent dearth of female craft beer lovers in her adopted NYC hometown. And with She’s Crafty’s inaugural meeting last Wednesday, October 26th, Boyadjian began recruiting a surprisingly diverse crowd of fellow femmes to drink and discuss amber ales, IPAs and stouts (just don’t ask her about Flemish sours).

She’s Crafty’s first meeting brought Syracuse’s Empire Brewery to the decidedly unfeminine Manchester Pub, a low-lights, frosty-pints spot on Manhattan’s East side where Olivia, the youngest (and only female) brewer in New York state, led a table of women through a craft beer tasting – with a side of quesadillas and wings. Some of the bar’s louder, hairier patrons couldn’t resist the occasional interruption, making discussion a little harder. But Nune and Co. prevailed, tasting four of the Empire lineup, including the drinkably rich Empire Cream Ale, a spicy Critz’s Pumpkin Ale, a grapefruity, floral IPA, and the balanced crowd favorite Empire Amber Ale. If anyone had any complaints, Empire founder David Katleski was on hand to answer to them directly.

For those ladies out there still stranded in the masculine, mustachioed stereotype of craft beer appreciation, Boyadjian’s next event is coming up soon. Meanwhile, she’s still drinking casks and taking names – so Sign Up Today as the next She’s Crafty member!

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