As they do each year, members of the Pink Boots Society gathered in late winter 2020 to brew their annual collaborative fundraising beer. Aside from that event, held March 12 of that year at Phantom Canyon in Colorado Springs, the day was a pretty standard one.
By the time the beer was released about three weeks later, though, the world had done a 180-degree turn and normal days were anything but.
Amid pandemic restrictions, getting the beer out to breweries, where $1 from each pint sold would go to the nonprofit organization that supports women in the brewing industry, required careful coordination and creative thinking, said Jessica Fierro, owner of the Springs’ Atrevida Beer Co.
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Brewers are getting creative with more local ingredients, lagers are coming back and a couple new Pink Boots brews are entering circulation.
On April 1, 603 Brewery in Londonderry released
Beer Hall Lager (4.5 percent), and as the name implies, it is exclusively available in their Beer Hall, both in 12-ounce cans and on draft.
On Friday, April 9, they will be dropping a new experimental beer called
E09 Hibiscus Bay (4.2 percent), which is a grapefruit and hibiscus gose. Brewers say it’s bright pink in color with tiny effervescent bubbles and aromas of fresh grapefruit zest, lemon and a hint of pineapple. It’s available in 16-ounce cans and in draft, both at the brewery and in the market.
New Mexico Pink Boots Society members before the pandemic shutdown. (Courtesy of The Pink Boots Society)
The New Mexico Pink Boots Society has been unable to gather for about a year due to the pandemic.
March 6, 2020, was the last time members were able to get together for the group’s annual brew day. The society annually brews a beer to benefit its organization on National Women’s Day. It was uncertain whether the society could meet for this year’s brew day. But where there is a will, there is a way, and the society held its sixth annual brew day on March 31 at Rio Bravo Brewing Co.