THE WCFA IS LOOKING FOR WAYS TO ENCOURAGE MORE WOMEN & NON BINARY FOLKS TO ENTER HOMEBREW COMPS
AND WE NEED YOUR HELP TO DO IT!
Hey all, my name is Michele Wonder and I am an avid homebrewer of 4 years, the co-founder of the Women's Intl Beer Summit and Media Director for the Women's Craft Fermentation Alliance.
I am in the midst of creating a brewing initiative to help educate, encourage and enable women and non binary homebrewers to enter, compete and win in more homebrew comps. Last year when the NHC list of winners came out I quickly scanned through and not a single female sounding name was on that list. I really want to change that!
I have created a brief survey to help identify why folks do or do not enter comps; what tools they need or roadblocks they have to overcome in order to participate.
https://tinyurl.com/3ppa6n6y It is brief and should take no more than 2-3 minutes to fill out.
Please note that this survey is
NOT restricted to just women or non-binary folks, it is essential that we learn from men who homebrew as well.
There is a question about gender identity that is not required to fill out but we find most folks have chosen to do so. We will be able to split up the data and see who's who in the answers. It will be
100% anonymous on the distribution and discussion of the data gleaned from this survey, we do ask for an email at the end ONLY if you'd like to be considered to win a free registration to WIBS 23.
We would very much appreciate if you all would consider contributing to this data set. Finding out why people do or do not enter comps will go along way towards encouraging those who may be intimidated or feel they aren't valued or their beer isn't good enough (HAHAHA, every judged a homebrew comp?) the knowledge, tools and confidence to participate!
Thanks ya'll and hope to see some of you at WIBS 23: A Craft Fermentation Summit held online in Fall 2023. If you are curious about the types of content WIBS provides check out some of our past sessions at our YouTube page.
https://tinyurl.com/37kkuw2bThanks--Michele Wonder
michele.wcfa@gmail.com