Craft Connections:
Beverage Education Summit
Empowering Industry Professionals and Consumers Alike
because we believe everyone should understand what they serve and are being served
Allo Gilinsky and Rachel Benkowski are two industry veterans passionate about beer and the education surrounding our favorite beverage. We founded this summit with the goal of creating a space where beverage enthusiasts, educators, and entrepreneurs can come together for productive, engaging learning, both from one another and alongside one another. We’ve teamed up in many ways to promote education, from virtual “Sunday Styles” Instagram Live sessions to co-presenting at the Crafted for Action Conference in Atlanta in June 2025. You can find us separately furthering beer education in Northern California and Arizona—and together, always bonding over our love of Belgian beers, especially a good Tripel.
Allo Gilinsky is a Certified Cicerone® with more than 15 years of front-of-house experience across the hospitality and beer industries. Allo has built a reputation for making beer approachable, engaging, and memorable. He currently serves as Hospitality & Education Manager for Fieldwork Brewing Company, where he develops education programs, brewery experiences, and hospitality initiatives across multiple locations.
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Rachel Benkowski works at Bone Haus Brewing, is an Advanced Cicerone®, and a co-founder of the international nonprofit Beer Babes Family, which funds business grants for women in beer and produces the popular Babe Brew™ collaboration series. Through her educational platform Brews with Beerkowski, Rachel leads advanced sensory trainings, beer-and-food pairing dinners, and historical brewing lectures that weave her background in archaeology into modern craft beer. She’s known for transforming beer history, terroir, and flavor science into engaging, memorable learning experiences for both professionals and enthusiasts.