Mujeres Brew House, San Diego Reviews 173, Photos 61

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• Mujeres Brew House: How women are changing the beer game
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• All Female-Run Mujeres Brew House Is One of a Kind. And Here’s Why That Needs to Change
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• Women in Beer: Carmen Velasco-Favela of Mujeres Brew House

Gomez said seeing how the brewery has been able to empower women and Latinos has been one of her favorite things about the job. She has created multiple connections with the customers and enjoys getting to know her regulars. The mural on the wall in the beer garden was commissioned by the building owner. According to Velasco-Favela, having this mural represents the overlaying message of the brewery. This initiative will be the first of its kind for San Diego beer, if not craft beer as a whole.

Mujeres Brew House: How women are changing the beer game

And so one thing led to another and within 24 hours we met the building owners. For context, my background is as a real estate agent, I mean, I’m just helping my husband here, having a good time. All of a sudden I’m sitting down getting ready to sign a contract for a brewery for women. I still didn’t even know how to brew a beer like, somebody stop me, this is insane. But my husband … would go to the club meetings with me and he saw the passion of these women getting together.

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The brewery is for everyone, families of all backgrounds, and anyone who enjoys beer. The brewery offers a wide range of beers, as well as non-alcoholic beers and beverages, so there is something for everyone to enjoy. She first experimented with one wall that she thought no one would see, but as more people viewed the wall, their faces lit up.

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The first beer that Mujeres Brew House brewed was meant to be a lighter beer that even non-beer drinkers could enjoy. They were able to do just that through Buenas Vibras, a blonde ale that was easy to drink. Velasco-Favela and Davila did not initially plan to open the brewery when they did, but the space became available and everything slowly fell into place.

Young girls and women would look at the pink wall and get excited. This made the two business partners realize they do not have to hide any part of who they are. The beer list grew from flavors that reminded them of their childhood to ones that are a staple in Latin cultures, such as tamarindo. Tamarindo is a sweet and spicy candy that is popular in the Latino community. The brewers have been able to incorporate that into a beer that is now a fan favorite at the brewery.

A survey from the Brewers Association found that male brewery owners outnumbered women three-to-one. The brewery has been able to build a community in just under three years. This was created through hard-working owners, bartenders, and art. Once they mastered those, the brewers started to incorporate Latin culture into their beers. As luck would have it, a vacant brewery building came on the market.

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But once Covid-19 hit and the group continued to grow, “we outgrew Border X,” explains Davila. During a recent conversation with Carmen, she offhandedly commented that the now-empty brewhouse that used to house Alta Brewing in Barrio Logan might be a good place for Mujeres to expand. By the end of the day, the Favelas had completed a business plan and shared it with the owners of the building, Bread & Salt. The brewery’s marketing director back in 2019, Velasco-Favela came up with an idea to start a women’s brew club. Mujeres Brew House started simply as a craft beer club at Border X, a Latinx-owned brewery in San Diego, CA, that taps into Velasco-Favela and Favela’s Hispanic roots. Dating as far back as 4000 B.C., Sumerian women were found on Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets brewing beer.

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So I started thinking about what we could do to honor our audience. We started with a few female-forward events, and then during Women’s Month, we started a Women’s Brew Club. I wanted it to be an educational series to not only teach other women, but also myself. Even though I was doing events and working at the brewery, I didn’t really understand how to make beer.

We met Carmen Velasco-Favela inside Mujeres Brew House, an all-female-run and Latina-owned brewery in San Diego. Carmen is the founder of Mujeres Brew House and the COO of Border X Brewing, which was co-founded by her husband David Favela. There’s a total of 16 beers on tap in the nearly 7,000 square foot space, which includes a tasting room, a 45 foot long bar on the first floor, and an open airy mezzanine.

There are a lot of great breweries in San Diego that specialize like that, but we have to have a balance. Hopefully, the practices at Mujeres Brew House will create a similar culture of success for Latinas and women across the industry. Which meant they had to find a brewer that would be up to the challenge of running this unique 5-bbl brewhouse. What started as one event on Eventbrite, with about ten tickets, morphed into a six-month series that sold out at fifty tickets nearly every time.

Last year, a demographic audit of brewery owners performed by the Brewers Association reported that only 23.7% of brewery owners identify as female. The wall that lines the outside of the beer garden is filled with marigolds. It was an extended piece from the building in front of the brewery. The artist, Tatiana Ortiz Rubio, created the piece to represent the lives that were lost during the COVID-19 pandemic. The brewery owners wanted to extend the piece to honor those lives.

Street vendors' permits, especially when it comes to food could be expensive, but according to Logan Heights CDC, selling them on the street without it could be even more expensive. That's why they offer free workshops to help locals apply for permits and events where they can sell their products and food without the need for a permit. Starting Tuesday, Dec. 6, Maria and more tamaleras will be able to sell their tamales at Mujeres Brew House without paying extra fees. It is pretty strange that the lounge area is separated from the bar though.

The space is painted in bright pink and blue colors, and murals of women line the walls. One of the reasons she came to Mujeres is because she wanted to empower more women. She wasn’t treated fairly and had different obstacles when getting into the industry, so she knows how important it is to create a space to empower women and give them an opportunity to get the experience they need.

Border X is the reason for this project, they sponsored it and believed in it, and we are thankful to them for helping to make that happen. As for the front-of-house, since Mujeres really came from the club, there were a lot of lessons that came with opening this space. It can be a little intimidating for the front-of-house girls if there is a confrontation, but it has been something they have learned how to deal with and become stronger. We’re all women here and we’re open until ten o’clock at night, and there aren’t many businesses in the community. We have had to adjust our hours because of safety concerns for the staff, so that’s something we are dealing with as an all-female brewery.

We have a Moscow mule cocktail, but again we use the same beer base. I just hope that we continue to see breweries that are a little more diverse, more women in their brewhouses, in the front of the house. Especially while facing the challenges of opening a Latina- and women-owned brewery during a global pandemic. Joining forces with Border X Brewing and Mujeres Brew House, the addition of Beer Thug Brewing Co. will contribute to the palate of Latinx craft beer culture.

“I love the art and it feels like we are honoring women in this space, especially Hispanic women,” Pimentel said. The trio admits they’re winging it a bit, but once open, they believe the results will speak for themselves. This is not a brewery where you’re gonna get five or ten hazy IPAs.