As we mentioned, the Lagerheads have been reading The Naked Pint by Christina Perozzi and Hallie Beaune, in anticipation of meeting them this week (which you can do Tuesday night at ChurckKey). The book naturally appeals to women because it is written by two female beer experts, and when you're into something not that many other women are into, it's nice to be able to reach out to each other.

That said, although the female perspective represented in the book is both thoughtful and entertaining, The Naked Pint is a thorough guide to all things beer written for anyone, not just the ladies. Still, all this talk of women and beer got us thinking. In addition to gals like Christina and Hallie, what queens of beer do like-minded female beer geeks have to look up to? We put together a not-at-all exhaustive list below.

PIONEERS:

Carol Stoudt – Brewmaster and Owner, Stoudt's Brewing Company, and the very "First Lady" of craft beer.

Kim Jordan – Owner, New Belgium Brewing Company, who has turned her basement brewing operation into one of the top three craft breweries in the United States.

Barbara Groom & Wendy Pound - Brewmasters and Owners, Lost Coast Brewery, and two of the first female brewpub owners.

ADVOCATES:

Teri Fahrendorf - Founder, Pink Boots Society, an association for women in the beer industry. She is a 30-year brewer and unofficial craft beer goodwill ambassador.

Sue Smith-Troy & Cinzia Wallace – Co-Founders, Ales 4 Females, a beer education and empowerment club in Colorado (link found under "About Us" on Left Hand's site).

BREWERS:

Tanya Cornett – Brewmaster, Bend Brewing Company and first woman to win the Brewmaster Award at the World Beer Cup.

Jenny Talley – Head Brewer, Squatters, and winner of over two dozen medals for her outstanding beers.

MEDIA:

Julie Johnson-Bradford – Editor, All About Beer Magazine , organizer of the World Beer Festival, and overall awesome beer educator.

Lucy Saunders – Author of Cooking With Beer, Grilling With Beer, and a whole host of articles about beer and food.

Anat Baron – Director, Beer Wars, an insightful documentary about the business of big beer. She is also has years of experience in the beer industry (but not craft).

Carolyn Smagalski – Editor, BellaOnline Beer & Brewing.

INDUSTRY:

Lynn Kruger – President, Siebel Institute, a highly regarded brewers' academy in Chicago.

Julia Herz – Craft Beer Program Director for the Brewers Association and beer event host extraordinaire.

UBER GEEKS:

Cornelia Corey & Diane Catanzaro – The only two women to have won Beer Drinker of the Year.

The filmmaker behind Beer Wars, a documentary that probes the great divide between craft brewers and the multi-national beer behemoths, has borrowed a page from the small guys and is creating buzz for her debut film by limiting its availability — a one-day-only screening tonight at theaters across the nation. The marketing for the flick seems mostly grass-roots, too; Y&H only heard about the screening through the DC-Beer listserv.

Director Anat Baron, a former Hollywood producer and general manager for Mike's Hard Lemonade, has not only put together this insider doc but has also engineered an entire nationwide event around it. The theaters showing the film will also plug into a live simulcast discussion featuring subjects from the documentary, including Dogfish Head founder Sam Calagione and New Century Brewing founder Rhonda Kallman. The event starts at 8 p.m. today at various theaters around the area. Check this list for the one nearest you.

The whole thing, of course, sounds like a Beer Nerd Fest of the highest order, but as Baron points out on the Beer Wars Web site:

Also remember that none of them have seen the film so their reactions will be raw. And since I'll be on the panel with them, let's hope no shoes are hurled at me or at each other. That's the cool thing about a LIVE show. Anything can happen.

Nothing could happen, too. Plus, you're gonna have to sneak some brews into the moviehouse if you really want to get into the spirit of Beer Wars.