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| Courtesy of Bale Breaker Brewing Co |
Yakima, WA, USA –
March 21, 2017 – Lady
Lupulin Blonde Ale, a special beer brewed by Bale Breaker Brewing
Company using an exclusive hop blend created by YCH HOPS and the Pink
Boots Society, will be released on March 28
at the Bale
Breaker Taproom. This celebratory beer was brewed at Bale Breaker by
women in the local community in honor of International Women’s Day.
Representatives from Bale
Breaker, YCH HOPS, Single Hill Brewing, Dru Bru, and Cornerstone
Ranches participated in Yakima’s Pink Boots Society Brew Day event,
truly making it a collaborative project.
“With our location in hop
country, we’re fortunate to collaborate with women in all aspects of
the industry who grow hops, brew, and manage the sales, marketing, and
finances along the way.” said Jackie Beard,
Bale Breaker’s Quality Manager and local brew day coordinator. “It’s an
honor to showcase the hops of the Yakima Valley and the women who bring
them from the soil to your glass!”
“Working with Pink Boots
Society to produce the exclusive hop blend, we wanted to create an
opportunity for people in all aspects of the hop and beer industries to
come together and brew something special to celebrate
women,” says Kate Ruffing, the chief marketing officer at YCH, who
also participated in the brew day. "It is just as much about the brewing
experience as it is about the beer, and we are grateful to have been a
part of this all-ladies brew day to experience
it firsthand.”
YCH HOPS’
Pink Boots Blend was released to
commercial brewers prior to International Women’s Day on March 8th and
members, participants, and brewers around the world were encouraged to
create their own celebratory brews. The hop
blend was produced in traditional T90 hop pellets with limited
availability, and YCH HOPS will donate $3 per pound to the Pink Boots Society Scholarship funds. This year’s blend includes
Palisade®, Simcoe®, Mosaic®, Citra® and Loral®.
Pink Boots Brew Release Party – March 28
The release party for Lady Lupulin Blonde Ale is scheduled for March 28, 3-8pm,
at Bale Breaker Brewing Co, 1801 Birchfield Rd, Yakima. Hop Town Pizza
(a women-owned company!) will be on site, and $1 from every
pint sold at the event will be donated to Pink Boots Society, a
nonprofit providing educational opportunities to women beer
professionals to help them advance their careers in the brewing
industry.
About Lady Lupulin Blonde Ale (5.2%, 30 IBU)
Give us your tired, your
thirsty, your masses of women yearning to brew free. Lady Lupulin
Blonde Ale is a tribute to the all-female fields of hop vines that
produce the cones that lend their fruity, dank, grassy,
and tropical aromas to the hoppy beers of the Northwest. Brewed with
YCH’s Pink Boots Blend, plus a little extra Simcoe®, Citra® and Loral®,
the beer is a delicately-hopped session ale perfect for spring. We lift
our lamp and raise a glass to the women of
our industry who get the tanks clean and their boots dirty in the
fields and the brewhouse to bring the taste of Yakima Valley to your
glass. Available on draught at Bale Breaker’s Yakima taproom.
About Pink Boots
Founded
in 2007 by brewmaster Teri Fahrendorf, Pink Boots Society is a
non-profit organization created to assist, inspire and encourage women
beer industry professionals to
advance their careers through education. To this end, Pink Boots
Society provides scholarship opportunities, job resources and industry
information to its more than 1,500 members.
About YCH HOPS
Inspired
by the shared vision of connecting family hop farms with the world’s
finest brewers, Yakima Chief, Inc. and Hopunion LLC merged in 2014
creating Yakima Chief - Hopunion,
or YCH HOPS for short, a 100% grower-owned supplier of hops and hop
products. We have made it our mission
to connect family farms with the world’s finest brewers, providing
the highest quality hop products and uncompromising service for the
ultimate benefit of our customers, employees and growers.
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