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Beer Preferences Of Women: Looking At Gender Stereotypes Through The Consumption Of Craft Beer, Jennifer Horowiec

Hospitality Graduate Student Scholarship

Centuries ago, beer brewing was done by women who were highly respected members of their communities. During the Middle Ages, priests and monasteries took over these duties, and since then, all things beer have become synonymous with masculinity. Through advertising, public drinking spaces, and even coming-of-age rituals, beer consumption has been geared toward men. Even beer styles themselves have been labeled either masculine or feminine with light, sweet and fruity beers being associated with femininity and dark, robust, and hoppy beers being associated with masculinity. Although the stereotype of craft beer consumption being a masculine activity still exists, the number …