The Pink Boots Society (PBS) is a non-profit organization with international membership which supports women and non-binary people working in the fermented beverages and allied industries.

[4] The Pink Boots Society was founded during a 2007 cross-country trip taken by Teri Fahrendorf, which she documented on her blog "The Road Brewer."

Armed with a pair of pink rubber boots gifted to her by her mother-in-law, Fahrendorf set off for California and across to Maine in June 2007.

Fahrendorf met a surprising number of women brewers, including Laura Ulrich, Carol Stoudt, and Whitney Thompson while on this road trip.

[4]Meeting Laura Ulrich on June 16, 2007, became the founding date of what Fahrendorf named Pink Boots Society two months later, when she posted the original list of 60 women brewers on her blog.

[6][7] She documented every woman brewer she met or heard about, and that list was posted under the headline "Pink Boots Society" on August 5, 2007, on her website.

The original mission statement was "Pink Boots Society was created to Inspire, Encourage and Empower women beer professionals to advance their careers."

Currently the mission statement is "The Pink Boots Society aims to assist, inspire and encourage women and non-binary individuals in the fermented/alcoholic beverage industry to advance their careers through education."

Working with its distribution partner, Country Malt Group, YCH contributed $117,807 this year; the program has raised over $257,000 for the Pink Boots Society since 2018.

Barley's Angels did take off with the rapid growth of chapters, but it did not achieve the fundraising goal and was a time distraction from Pink Boots Society's focus on its members.

At about the same time other women's beer consumer groups sprouted independently around the US, several utilizing the chapter model, including Girls Pint Out.