Girls Pint Out, a beer-drinking club for women, is launching a Wichita chapter next month
A national club that aims to bring female beer lovers together for sipping and socializing now has a chapter in Wichita, and its first meetup will happen next month.
Girls Pint Out, a national organization that started in Indiana in early 2010, today has chapters in more than 30 states and in Washington, D.C. Its mission is “to build a community of women who love craft beer and who are an active, contributing part of the greater craft beer community.”
Recent Wichita transplant Lacy Fallon is starting the Wichita chapter and has scheduled the first meeting for 2 p.m. on Saturday, April 23, at Central Standard Brewing, 156 S. Greenwood. All women are welcome, she said.
Fallon, who works at the United States Department of Agriculture, moved to Wichita in June with her husband, who’s in the Air Force. Previously, she’d lived in San Antonio, where she’d attended a couple of Girls Pint Out events and enjoyed them.
When she arrived in Wichita and found there was no local chapter, she got in touch with the national headquarters and volunteered to start one.
Fallon said what she likes about the club is that there’s no membership process, no commitment, no fees.
“You can show up to one event or 20 events, and it really doesn’t matter,” she said. “Nothing obligates you to come. It’s really fun, and you get to try new beers and meet new people.”
Fallon, who got into craft beer after college, said she made several friends through the San Antonio chapter, which she said drew women of “all different ages, people from all different backgrounds.”
The headquarters requests that its chapters meet at least quarterly, but if Wichita’s is a hit, Fallon said, the club could meet more often. She plans to set up meetings at different restaurants and breweries around town and envisions other events like bottle swaps, brewery tours and educational sessions.
Though the group is designed as a way for women to get together, men are occasionally invited to events.
“Sometimes beer is seen as kind of a man thing, but I don’t think it is that anymore,” Fallon said. “There are a lot of women who work in the industry, too, that are a part of this group and who promote beer culture.”
Those interested in news about the new chapter can follow it on Facebook, on Twitter and on Instagram. Otherwise, the only thing prospective members need to do to join is show up to an event.
This story was originally published March 23, 2022 at 1:29 PM.
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