This is the name we give our events. At each Bevy the energy in the room is really fantastic. We have 1-2 food vendors, great tunes, awesome craft beer and cider flowing (poured by our volunbeer army) and our swag shop set-up. We serve 10oz full beers or 5oz samples. It’s a fun party and a great way to chill out and meet new people. There are no name tags, no icebreaker games, no ‘networking.’ Bring a bunch of friends or come solo – we’re a welcoming crew.
Join us at our next Bevy at the Society Clubhouse!
Our Events Are…
inclusive & safe
a place where you can be yourself
a helluva good time
a place to come solo and meet new pals OR bring your gal pals
a place where there is NEVER a dress code
selfie worthy! But then please…put away your phone
charitable: we’re drinking for a cause! (Canadian Women’s Foundation)
a place where the music is bumpin’ and dance parties break out
full of really, really good lady vibes
a place to chill or dance up a storm
Upcoming Events
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From 2-7pm on Saturday October 28th, join us at our Society Clubhouse space (967 College St in TORONTO) as we feature dozens of amazing beers and wines coming out of Ontario from women identified makers.
Your ticket gets you a unique festival tasting glass and an unlimited tasting experience. Please drink responsibly and don't drink and drive.
This is a 19+ event, open to everyone!
Food available for purchase.
Costumed HIGHLY encouraged
Music, entertainment and artisan vendors TBD!
Tickets are limited to 175 attendees so act quick!
Whip up your own buttercream icing and learn beginner piping techniques!
Each ticket includes:
A BEER, 4 CUPCAKES BAKED WITH CRAFT BEER, YOUR OWN PIPING TIPS TO KEEP, PIPING BAGS, FRESHLY WHIPPED ICING, A LIVE DEMO & RECIPE CARD.
OPEN TO EVERYONE | 19+ | $50 PER PERSON
We'll be demonstrating a simple way to whip up your own buttercream icing, and teaching some beginner piping techniques.
Enjoy some great brews, while learning how to get creative with your buttercream recipe, and practice some elegant cupcake piping designs.
Then take home some of your treats, and piping tips to continue the creativity on a later date.
This is a 19+ event.
Each ticket includes:
- A step by step live demo
- A take away box with 4 cupcakes (that have been baked with Ontario craft beer)
- 3 piping tips (for you to keep)
- piping bags
- icing to ice your cupcakes
- recipe card
- drink token (that can be used to enjoy a beer during the workshop)
We'll supply all the tools required for the duration of the workshop (clean aprons, bowls, spatulas, napkins etc.). We take care of the mess, so you can focus on the fun.
Must be 19 years of age or older to purchase a ticket.
Take the vibe of a chill Beerfest, the comedic talent this city offers, all happening in a swish new clubhouse… you have The Betty! Now imagine it’s Sunday and you’re seated with your besties about to be served a beer-soaked brunch catered by Phancy Catering. Now you have the Betty’s Beer Brunch!
Includes 4 10 oz limited seasonal beers, a family-style brunch and all the laughs.
Join Jacquie of Baker’s Bar for a beginner’s piping workshop! Space is limited. Ticket includes a pint of beer, 4 cupcakes baked with craft beer, your own piping tips to keep, piping bags, freshly whipped icing, a live demo and recipe card.
Come hang at the Society Clubhouse for a holiday celebration! Admission is PWYC to Canadian Women’s Foundation and/or bring items to stock up our Personal Care Box! Suggested donation: $10
Don your tackiest holiday gear for a chance to win prizes!
First 50 people through the door get a free holiday cupcake from Baker’s Bar
Handmade Jungle Crafty Collage Corner on site
Tarot Readings by Aerin Fogel
Beast Pizza available by the slice.
Open to women-identified and non-binary folks.
The Betty is a monthly live stand-up comedy show at the Society Clubhouse. We know Toronto is one of the BEST comedy cities in the world and this stage will feature curated, pro lineups that reflect the sometimes overlooked diversity within the comedy community.
Jacquie from Baker's Bar will be demonstrating a simple way to whip up your own buttercream icing, and teaching some beginner piping techniques. Enjoy some great brews, while learning how to get creative with your buttercream recipe, and practice some elegant cupcake piping designs.
Join us at our new space "Society Clubhouse" at 967 College St in Toronto. We’ll have beer from a variety of craft breweries available for sampling. Admission includes a 10oz branded glass, four 5oz beer samples and snacks
*Early Bird sale on until February10th at midnight. Save $5!*
Due to the pandemic, tickets will be timed and admission will be for one hour. Come tour the space, shop, chat to founders Jaime and Erica, have a snack and a couple drinks, and celebrate the opening of our very first brick and mortar space!
A mini Artisan women’s market and our SOBDL swag shop all your shopping needs.
Non-alcoholic tickets and drinks available.
As always, we donate a portion of event profits to The Canadian Women’s Foundation.
We’ll have over 12 Woodhouse brews on tap (tons not in LCBO, only available at the pub!), and an amazing snack menu straight from the Woodhouse kitchen!
Also, find a mini Artisan women’s market and our SOBDL swag shop for your last minute holiday shopping needs.
Don your TACKY/FABULOUS HOLIDAY GARB too to win prizes!
Non-alcoholic tickets and drinks are available.
As always, we donate a portion of event profits to The Canadian Women’s Foundation.
Join us for Ottawa Bevy0005! We can’t wait to road trip out there and hang out with YOU! We’ll have a kick-ass women food business and a mini Women's Artisan market popped up along with our SOBDL swag shop for all your holiday shopping needs. Join us at Orange Art Gallery.
We’re rocking a FULL Muskoka Brewery Takeover- complete with heaters and blankets and Muskoka chairs and a TON of their drinks...so we can all stay warm, cozy and live our best beer-drinking lives in the heart of the city:)
We’ll have tasty food (vegan options available), a mini Women Artisan Market area, our SOBDL swag shop, great tunes, killer entertainment….and TONS of beer and spirit drinks from Muskoka cider to enjoy. Non-alcoholic drinks will also be available.
Join us indoor and out on the patio at Black Lab Brewing from 6-11pm. We’ll have a gorgeous line up of Black Lab beers available and come hungry because Sausage Party is popping up with a great menu. We’re putting together a fun and spooky playlist, we’ll be popping up our swag shop, a mini Women Artisan Market will be on site and we’ve got some fun entertainment and activities planned throughout the night including drag performances, a magician, and a tarot card reader.
So, come solo or grab your beer drinking buds and join in! Very limted tickets available, so act quick!
Costumes encouraged and there will be prizes!
Yippee! We’re FINALLY ready to host you. This will be our first Toronto bevy back since Feb 2020 and we’re pumped! Join us on the COVERED OUTDOOR PATIO at Rorschach Brewing from 7-10pm. We’ll have over a DOZEN Rorschach beers available and come hungry because Rorschach has a great snack menu. We’re dusting off our kick ass Bevy Playlist, our swag shop will be popped up, a mini Women Artisan Market will be on site and we’ve got some fun entertainment and activities planned throughout the night.
So, come solo or grab your beer drinking buds and join in!
After over a year now of not doing events, we totally MISS YOU! So, WE'RE GOING VIRTUAL BABY! That’s right, we’re throwing the greatest online beer fest ever.
Pop over to Henderson Brewery on Saturday September 19th and 26th from 12-6pm! We’re going to pop up our SOBDL swag shop and we’ve invited a womxn food pal and artisan pal each day! No admission. No tickets. Open to all.This is super low key (*read this is not a bevy!*) Grab swag, grab food, grab goods, say a (socially distanced) hello!
A little hair of the downward dog at Henderson Brewery the day after our Birthday Bevy! Class led by Becki Charles. Includes: 1 hour yoga practice and a pint from Henderson. Open to anyone that identifies as a woman. Suitable for all skill levels.
We celebrated our 6th birthday at Junction Brewery. Gusto provided tasty dishes and Baker's Bar provided the cake! Cupcakes that is, and they were made with beer! The spa truck was giving out massages, Girl Gang Cabarets entertained the masses and Vango Photo Booth was on site to capture it all.
We took over the back room at Beyond the Pale and over 10 other breweries popped up to serve over 300 ladies a selection of beers. Smoque Shack served up tasty snacks for us.
A little hair of the downward dog at Henderson Brewery! Class led by Becki Charles. Includes: 1 hour yoga practice and a pint from Henderson. Open to anyone that identifies as a woman. Suitable for all skill levels.
The launch of our 4th Good Tap at BrewHaha. $1 from every pint was donated to the Canadian Women's Foundation at all our Good Taps! Brew 0002, our Vanilla Orchid Brown Ale, was on tap.
Our second Hamilton bevy was a SPOOKY HALLOWEEN BEVY at the wonderful CLIFFORD BREWERY on SATURDAY OCTOBER 26th from 5-11pm. Clifford brewed up a special Bevy Brew just for the event and there will be lots of beers from other breweries on site too!
A little hair of the downward dog at Henderson Brewery! Class led by Becki Charles. Includes: 1 hour yoga practice and a pint from Henderson. Open to anyone that identifies as a woman. Suitable for all skill levels.
Ticket includes 60 minutes of yoga + one Henderson’s beer. Stay, socialize and get 20% off additional beers!
We brunched at The Glad Day, a very special and important part of Toronto to the burlesque stylings of the amazing Miss Dainty Smith.
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Wychwood Barns
Date: Saturday September 28th 2019
Location: Wychwood Barns
Entertainment: Girl Gang Cabarets & Firecracker Entertainment
Photographer: Smooth Studios
We took over Wychwood Barns with beer, cider and mead vendors, 4 lady food vendors, an artisan Market and performances by DJ Jane Blaze, Girl Gang Cabarets and Firecracker Comedy.
If You Hear Any Noise Launch Party
Left Field Brewery
Date: Tuesday September 17, 2019
Location: Left Field Brewery
Entertainment: DJ Ace Dillinger
Eats: Baker's Bar
Join us at Left Field Brewry on September 17th as we celebrate the launch of our upcoming collaboration brew, If You Hear Any Noise Black Forest Cake Sour!
The party kicks off at 6pm featuring:
-SOBDL Swag Shop Pop-Up!
-Music by DJ Ace Dillinger!
-Exclusive collaboration tees - hurry, quantities are limited!
-FREE Black Forest Beer Cupcakes by The Baker's Bar!
Admission is FREE, just bring your crew and show up ready to enjoy!
Did you know? 50 Cents from the sale of each can of If You Hear Any Noise goes to support the Canadian Women's Foundation!
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@Overflow Brewery
Date: Saturday June 15 2019
Location: @Overflow Brewery
Eats: Little JoBerry's
We popped up at Overflow Brewing Company taproom for our third Bevy in Ottawa. There was plenty of beer from Overflow, of course, as well as some guest taps from Nickel Brook, Beau's All Natural, Collective Arts, Flora Hall, Black Lab and our very own Blood Orange Saison brewed by Henderson! Little Jo Berry's supplied a menu of delicious treats.
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Beau's & Halcyon
Date: Friday April 26, 2019
Location: Beau's & Halcyon
Eats: Los Vietnamita
Photographer: Nancy Kim
Beau's All Natural Brewing took over all the taps with their extensive list of 20+ beers and brought Halcyon Barrel House along with their barrel and foeder-aged, mixed fermentation sours. Halcyon concocted a Bevy Brew called Still/ Thirsty - a sour, still beer that walked the line of beer and wine.
We blew it up for 5th year birthday bevy - quite literally...renting 2 inflatable tents! We had not one but two entertainment stages and had an amazing line-up of female comedians and artists! We had 1000 women come through over 2 sessions- whatta great way to beat the winter blues.
Our 40th Bevy was held at Brunswick Bierworks and featured a line up of beers brewed there, our collab Brut IPA and Muddy York popped up too! Girl Gang Cabarets entertained and many a lady vendor popped up at our Artisan Market.
Eats: Chau, Steambox Dumplings, Big News Breakfast, Phancy Catering
Photographer: Roxanna Nazarowicz
We had a really amazing evening weather-wise: the perfect afternoon and evening for a beer fest! Ladies flowed between the indoor and outdoor spaces. We had a really cool vintage trailer that housed our cider bar too! This was Jen's last event with us and we had a teary-eyed good bye for her.
Eats: Highland Butter Tarts and Cheesus Murphy & the Grateful Bread
Photographer: Roxanna Nazarowicz
We popped up in the east with food by Jaime's MOM & AUNT. Butter tars and grilled cheese sammies! Pretty much the cutest thing. AND SO TASTY. We also had a cool brewery ' battle' between Haliburton Highlands & Oast House, both took over our taps and brought some amazing styles!
It was our 4th year birthday! We were so proud to reveal our highest amount ever donated to the Canadian Women's Foundation in 2017. We featured all Junction craft beer and partied in a brand new brewery with food by the delectable Tempered Room in Parkdale.
We took over a big warehouse and threw a unique indoor/outdoor event on Keele Ave. The major food fan favourite was Steambox Dumplings - the line-ups were FIERCE. We also launched a "Battle of the Bevy Brew" where two unique brews went head-to-head! Ladies voted for their favourite and the brewery was awarded a tacky/fabulous trophy!
As we saw from our previous events, ladies love their fruit, sour and funk brews! So we enlisted the help of the FunkLabs at Nickelbrook Brewing who brought their A-Game and took over the taps! We're also still drooling over the rich & delicious comfort Italian food that Gusto 54 dished up.
Location: Henderson Brewing - Tap Room & Parking Lot
Eats: Sausage Party & The Pop Stand
Photographer: Angela Dawson
For our 4th instalment of Lady Beer Fest, we experimented with 2 sessions and tried out a 'Very Important Beer Drinking Lady" VIP ticket option. It was fun to have puppies around! Christina of Folly Brewing also took over the Henderson pilot brew system- it was cool to have a live brew going during our event! Highlight of the fest was TOTALLY the Jumpsations Double Dutch skipping all who came in from Hamilton and TORE. IT. UP.
We teamed up with a beer importing agency called Craft Brand Co - they took over the taps with the beers in their portfolio! It was a fun plethora of Ontario Craft, American craft and international brews. We invited the folks from Kung Fu Dawgs back too to whip up their hot dogs for our lady attendees as they were a fan favourite at our previous event, Lady Beer Fest 3.
We hosted our 3rd large Lady Beer Fest in the beautiful Evergreen Brickworks. We had lots of familiar breweries and a bunch of new ones of course.
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Macedonian Cathedral
Date: January 2017
Location: Macedonian Cathedral
Eats: Pie Commission & Chadwicks
Photographer: Renee Navarro
This was our 3rd year anniversary! We had 2 food vendors out at a bevy for the first time ever, revealed (via a giant novelty cheque) how much $ we raised for the Canadian Women's Foundation in 2016 and launched 16oz 'tall can' glasses in our swag shop.
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Artscape Wychwood Barns
We hosted our 2nd large Lady Beer Fest in the historic Wychwood Barns! We loved the lighting and huge ceilings in this space. We had lots of familiar breweries and a bunch of new ones like Pitschfork and Cowbell! The little stemmed Belgian tulip tasting glasses were a big hit!
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Lithuania House
Date: September 2016
Location: Lithuania House
Eats: Kung Fu Dawg & The Pop Stand
Photographer: Renee Navarro
After taking the summer off, we were back with a vegance at the retro/cool Lithuanian House with 2 food vendors and over 300 ladies!
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Yonge & Dundas Square
Date: June 2016
Location: Yonge & Dundas Square
Eats: Various
Photographer: Renee Navarro
This was a unique event for us - we partnered with Session Toronto to create a lady session within their festival during the first half of the day. It was crazy to be at the hub of Toronto spreading the SOBDL love!
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Henderson Brewing
Date: May 2016
Location: Henderson Brewing
Eats: Cardinal Rule
Photographer: Renee Navarro
We threw a bevy in the not-yet-opened Henderson Brewing! It was cool to take over the space and give ladies a sneak peak of this cool brewery space. We had the garage door open and we had a feline visitor which was pretty funny!
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Paintbox Bistro
Date: April 2016
Location: Paintbox Bistro
Eats: Paintbox Bistro
Photographer: Renee Navarro
We tapped a bunch of casks for this event. Was great to be back at Paintbox Bistro and run a much smaller event after the epicness of Lady Beer Fest 1 that went down a month prior!
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Evergreen Brickworks
Date: February 2016
Location: Evergreen Brickworks
Eats: Beast, Heirloom, Chimney's
Photographer: Renee Navarro
After doing 24 bevy events, we decided to get crazier with Lady Beer Fest. Breweries popped up their tents and staff their booths with beer. We had 3 food vendors and our event was in the indoor/outdoor Brickworks space. We rented busses! And had walkie-talkies! Very professional:) This was also the first event that we launched an Artisan Market component of our events featuring women makers.
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Paintbox Bistro
Date: February 2016
Location: Paintbox Bistro
Eats: Paintbox Bistro
Photographer: Renee Navarro
This was our first full takeover event: we did a cool partnership with Beau's as part of their Febrewary feature. We had a lot of cask ales too which is always a fun addition to our events.
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Lithuania House
Date: January 2016
Location: Lithuania House
Eats: hBar
Photographer: Renee Navarro
For our 2nd year birthday bash, we whipped up a sweet novelty cheque and revealed on stage the total we donated in 2016. We also had some killer raffle prizes and Jaime made cupcakes to hand out to everyone to celebrate turning 2!
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Lithuanian House
Date: November 2015
Location: Lithuanian House
Eats: Bunz
Photographer: Renee Navarro
It looks like this was the first bevy we ever poured cider! We started off with a keg of West Avenue. We also had a crazy bevy brew: it was a Black IPA with ghost peppers called Nosbeeratu from Rainhard Brewing.
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Artscape Youngsplace: SKETCH
Date: October 2015
Location: Artscape Youngsplace: SKETCH
Eats: Kung-Fu Dawg
Photographer: Renee Navarro
We had a hard time narrowing down this album, there were so many great costume shots! We let dudes in at 10pm and it was fun to see a bunch of guys stream in wearing all sorts of ridiculous costumes!
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Jam Factory
Date: Friday September 25 2015
Location: Jam Factory
Eats: Jester on Yonge
Photographer: Renee Navarro
For many of our events, Sawdust City whipped us up a special one-off bevy brew and this month was no exception: we sipped on a fun spiced pumpkin lager called Jack O'Lager. Toronto Beer Week had just ended too and we were able to snag one of the last kegs of the official: a Bourbon Barrel Aged Rye Porter.
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Katzman Contemporary Art Gallery
Date: August 2015
Location: Katzman Contemporary Art Gallery
Eats: Bar Ape Gelato Bars
Photographer: Renee Navarro
We were off a side street at a quaint art gallery in Toronto's west end. There were only a couple toilets and I remember someone dropped their phone in the toilet and it got stuck! Ladies were going next door to a car dealership to use that washroom! Oh, and an adorable little gelato truck pop-up drove up as our food vendor to serve delicious treats.
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Food & Liquor
Date: July 2015
Location: Food & Liquor
Eats: Food & Liquor
Photographer: Renee Navarro
We ventured into Parkdale to a great neighbourhood watering hole, Food & Liquor. In the middle of the event, it started pouring raining: it was fun to dance in the rain! We eventually ran everything indoors though and had a squishy party in the bar.
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Monarch Tavern
Date: June 2015
Location: Monarch Tavern
Eats: Baju BBQ
Photographer: Renee Navarro
We had a fun and relaxing bevy at one of the oldest bars in Toronto! We were able to take over their taps and go behind the bar to pour which was really great. A ton of pics also show ladies wearing SOBDL ball caps…they must have made their debut that night!
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Rainhard Brewing
Date: May 2015
Location: Rainhard Brewing
Eats: Tilde Taco
Photographer: Renee Navarro
This was the first brewery space we ever used! It was nice to hang out around the tanks and bags of malt. We introduced tall can glasses into our swag shop: they were a big hit!
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Indie Ale House Barrel Space (now Blood Brothers Brewing)
Date: April 2015
Location: Indie Ale House Barrel Space (now Blood Brothers Brewing)
Eats: Urban Carnivore
Photographer: Renee Navarro
We are grateful to have used this very cool kind of secret space on Geary Ave. It was great to drink beers in the presence of all the malt and barrels! We also featured a cool Toronto start-up: Guild eyewear.
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Propeller Coffee
Date: March 2015
Location: Propeller Coffee
Eats: Caplansky's Deli
Photographer: Renee Navarro
Everything went super smoothly for this bevy. We always love the lighting and ambiance in this space. Also super awesome that there are no stairs to lug equipment up and they have a walk-in cooler for storing our kegs!
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Jam Factory
Date: February 2015
Location: Jam Factory
Eats: Bestia
Photographer: Renee Navarro
Back at our favourite venue: The Jam Factory. Really all you need to know about this bevy is that at the end of the night…we had a spontaneous Highland dance breakout!
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Artscape Youngsplace
Date: January 2015
Location: Artscape Youngsplace
Eats: Grasshopper
Photographer: Renee Navarro
It was our first year birthday! We gave out mini cupcakes to everyone and revealed how much money we raised for CWF in our first year: via a sweet yellow handmade Bristol board novelty cheque. For our special 'Bevy Brew' one-off, we added sprinkles to the birthday cake ale brewed by Sawdust City!
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Propeller Coffee
Date: November 2014
Location: Propeller Coffee
Eats: Burgatory
Photographer: Renee Navarro
We had an amazing Bevy Brew name: Pink Pajamas Penguins on the Bottom (Hibiscus & Rosehip Kolsch). The bathroom line got a little too long. We did a winter wear donation for charity leading up to the holidays.
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ARTA Gallery
Date: October 2014
Location: ARTA Gallery
Eats: Vegan Liberation Kitchen
Photographer: Renee Navarro
The costumes were so hilarious! We did a costume contest- loudest applause won the prize! We let dudes come at 10pm to this one and had an entirely vegan food vendor too.
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At Jam Factory
Date: September 2014
Location: At Jam Factory
Eats: Tori's Bakeshop
Photographer: Renee Navarro
We began the 'Bevy Brew' a unique brew made just for the event. We had just won a Special Recognition Golden Tap at Toronto Beer Week and we're excited to proudly display it. This was our biggest event to date with 175 ladies!
Jaime made amazing cake pops for everyone on their way home. Nigel - the owner- proudly wore our SOBDL tank top for the night. We gave out Woodhouse Lager as a raffle prize - the brewery owner happened to be delivering his first order EVER to Food & Liquor and tossed us a couple cases.
Jaime's mom came out! The head brewer at Junction Craft Brewing also won the Learn to Home Brew Kit which was pretty funny. And Magenta gave her speech atop a wooden crate!
We started a pre-event set-up shift and introduced Morning After Bags! These are gift bags fill with coupons and treats that we still give out today, We tried our hand at Beer Cocktails. We tried out an event in an old house with multiple rooms - learned that we're MUCH better off throwing our bevies in one big communal space.
Location: Junction City Music Hall (before it was open!)
Eats: Pie Commission
Photographer: Renee Navarro
We crammed into the almost-opened Junction City Music Hall. Judging by the name tags, it appears as though we began to really use the 'Volunbeer' moniker and start to flesh out our volunteer program. It was SUPER hot down there - you can tell from a lot of oily faces and very foamy draught beer.
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Jen's Old Apartment
We upped our game with 150 ladies! This was the first time we ever had a food vendor out! We also we're dangerously low on beer by 10:30 pm so Erica rushed to the West End to grab a keg and bottles from a sneaky connection. There was also these UBER carbonated bottles of beer that we're exploding everywhere and we had to carefully pour them into any random vessel we could find!
This was our biggest event yet with 110 ladies! We started pouring beer on draught and stepped up our signage game. Banners! We apparently decided to all get dressed up and Jaime even made treats for everyone on their way out: Cake in a Jar!
This was our kick off event! We put tickets on sale thinking maybe 15 ladies would show up...and we sold over 90 tickets! We bought snacks from Bulk Barn and charged $10 all-you-can-drink! We even tried to walk everyone to Dominion Pub for an after-party after midnight (wound up just being the 5 of us and are significant others for the most part!)
