The Indian craft brewing scene is studded with ladies who dig beer and are great at brewing it. We speak to bunch of them.

From The Indian Express

Most Indians still see beer as a man’s drink. A friend of mine recently went to a restaurant in Salem, Tamil Nadu, along with his wife, and they ordered two bottles of beer. The restaurant staffer, though, served both the bottles to him (my friend). Thankfully, our metros are more progressive when it comes to beer, and the craft beer scene, especially, has a fair number of women actually brewing beer thousands of guys — and girls — glug every weekend.

Most Indians also wouldn’t be aware that Sumerians from southern Mesopotamia, the first people to document the recipe for beer, worshipped Ninkasi, who was their goddess of beer. A hymn to Ninkasi goes like this: “Ninkasi, you are the one who pours out the filtered beer of the collector vat; it is [like] the onrush of the Tigris and Euphrates.” It was believed that Ninkasi gifted beer to humans to preserve peace and well being. Beer only became a preserve of men with the advent of the Industrial Revolution. Prior to that, women were active players, brewing beer and heading guilds.

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