Hi! I'm Carol Stoudt, founder and
president of the Stoudt Brewing Company
in Adamstown, Pennsylvania. The advice I
have for the young gals wanting to get
into the brewing business is do your
homework. Visit as many different
types of brew pubs -- small medium and
large -- different types of packaging,
breweries, the same different sizes, visit
packaging stores. Maybe you'd like to
work in a store that sells a variety of
craft beer. And if you're really serious
about making beer then the suggestion
would be to join the Pink Boot Society
in your area and then find out small
breweries that would do bar
apprenticeships, and just that's the way
you start. And if you want to continue
that farther take the siebel course in
Chicago which is an excellent course and
I think also if you go online,
there's some variety of short
brewing courses around the area. But the
main thing is to just pound the pavements
and do your due diligence and don't just
jump into it. Well when I first started
it was a beer wasteland. I was one of the
first. I think there were about less
than 25 in the whole country, and now
there's well over 8,000. There's well
over 300 in Pennsylvania alone. The
interesting thing is there's there's so
many breweries making all different
kinds of styles. They're putting a lot of
different ingredients in which 
make it quite interesting, and it's just
a very crowded market. It's very good
for the consumer but we just need to
make sure that who's going to drink all
these beers and that the cream will
always rise to the crop and so we have a
diversity and variety of craft beers to
sustain well into the next century.
We don't want to go back to the way it
was before prohibition and when I started in 1987.
