CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Chicago’s Goose Island Beer Company is working on a special beer on Friday, as it observes International Women’s Day.
Women from a handful of local breweries are gathered in a room at Goose Island on West Fulton, collaborating on a beer they’re calling “Women of the House,” so-named because of the historical political gains made by women in last year's elections, said Goose Island Brewer Alison Christen.
“It’s going to be a really nice, juicy Pale Ale,” she said, “with a lot of tropical fruit character.”
She was working with six other women brewers.
“We have brewers from Rabid Brewing, On Tour, Virtue Cider, Forbidden Root,” she said.
"Women of the House" is a small-batch brew, just four barrels, she said.
Christen said the Chicago brewing industry has, for decades, been very diverse, with a lot of women.
She said when she attends national conferences she sees that the industry, in much of the rest of the country, remains something of a boys club.