How Did It All Start?
Way back in the day I moved to France. If you don’t know it’s know for wine. I wasn’t a big drinker, and I didn’t like wine. My French host family bought local wines and I’d try them, at first to be polite. However as time passed, I learned that not all wines taste the same.
There are a host of different taste you can get depending on the grape, location, production, and year. It can get very techie but it is all interesting.
I was stubborn and my journey to discovering wine took years just to admit that I like it. So when we moved to Belgium, I knew that I wanted to experiment with the different varieties and see what I liked.
Why YouTube Videos?
Making YouTube Beer Reviews wasn’t in the cards when I started the channel.
Before I considered trying a beer I wanted to find a perfect first beer, so I stalked YouTube for Beer Reviews. I discovered 3 things.
- All the reviewers are men
- Most of them are sexist
- I thought their reviews were boring.
Lack of Women in the Beer Industry
There was this part of me before I started my channel that felt beer was a masculine male drink. When I think of beer the image that pops into my head is the King of the Hill intro, A bunch of guys standing around doing nothing and drinking beer.
The number of woman in the Beer Community is on the rise, and I’d like to think, that adding my voice, will inspire some young woman.
Beer can be chic, classy, elegant, and a girly drink for women!
Stupid Things Men Say
The first beer review I saw had a panel of men trying out a Lambic beer, which they describes as a crappy women’s beer, which is only good to drink if you wanted to have sex with a her.
As if a woman is going to spread her legs for a guy for a bottle of “crappy” beer.
That moment broke the camels back. I decided I had to start making beer reviews because some of the men weren’t doing it right.
Who Wants to Drink Skunk?
I’ve been told that my videos aren’t that techie, and it is unlikely that I will get a large viewership. I am okay with that. I’ve watched techie videos and they way they describe the beer makes me question their sanity.
So far in my beer journey, I’ve had 1 beer I couldn’t drink because it tasted like soap. I ended up pouring that one down the sink. However I’ve watched reviews where men celebrate their beer for tasting like skunk, dirt, skin, and (insert unappealing adjective).
For all I know the beer they had could have been delicious. Perhaps I’m unsophisticated, skunk and dirt could be delicacies. I will respectively pass.
(PS – I know a beer that taste like soap that might interest you!)
Why Call Yourself Beer Mistress?
A Beer Sommelier is someone who is an expert in beer. However that term is the PC one. Normally when you know a lot about beer you’re called a Beer Master. I decided to call myself a Beer Mistress.
Mistress is a term that has many meanings and can describe many different kinds of women. I may not be an expert on the techie side of beer, but I can be an expert of the creative side.
In the end though it doesn’t matter. I wanted something to show that you don’t need to know the minuet detail of style, ingredients, etc to enjoy beer.
You can learn as you go along. You can be spontaneous and have a tasting experience. You can just have fun.
What’s The Future of Beer Mistress?
It never occurred to me that Beer Mistresses would become a thing. Since it started as something I just did for fun. However in my journey to learn more about Beer I’ve encountered people who like my reviews.
That has been eye opening to me since, I know that there isn’t much for my Beer Mistress Fans. That is something I plan to fix.
I have done some updates in terms of sets, and quality of the videos. I also have some fun ideas that I will be working on and testing out in March. I think it will be interesting.
For a long term Future Goal (way way in the Future) I’ve played around with the idea of doing a Beer Mistress Beer. You never know.
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