NORWICH — Sherry Bryant found herself mingling among strangers at These Guys Brewing Company Tuesday night.

At a nearby table, the friend who invited her to meet and play Cards Against Humanity at the local brewpub sat with people she had just met, too.

Meeting new people became a highlight of the night for both women.

“I thought that was great,” Bryant, of Norwich, said. “It was interesting to get to know people. It’s a good way to get out there.”

“It’s great for women to get out, and just be out with other women without feeling the pressure of sitting at a bar,” Tammy Matlock, of Griswold, said. “You can just have fun and relax.”

The social gathering was coordinated by Connecticut Girls Pint Out, a nonprofit group that looks to foster social, educational and charity events around the state among women who share an appreciation for craft beer.

On Tuesday, nearly 30 women gathered for the night to eat, drink, socialize, and play Cards Against Humanity, a bawdy party game where the most outrageous (and often profane) words to finish a sentence win the round.

“We are going to have a ridiculously inappropriate night,” Jeanette Taylor announced to cheers as the night got started.

Taylor, of Norwich, leads the Connecticut Girls Pint Out chapter along with Elisha Lewis, of Colchester, Caitlin Millerd, of New London, and Cyan “CJ” Manuel, of Newington.

A chance meeting between the women in 2014 helped make Connecticut Girls Pint Out what it is today.

It’s a chapter of the national craft beer organization for women that was established in 2010. The chapter started the same year, but remained inactive until 2014, when the four women met.

Taylor said Manuel, who is currently traveling abroad, was working to get Connecticut Girls Pint Out up and active on her own. She coordinated a Girls Pint Out event at Thomas Hooker Brewery in Bloomfield in 2014. The women had formed a friendship right around that time, and joined together to make the chapter active.

“Who could say no to that?” Taylor said.

Now, a little more than a year later, the state chapter is among the most active in the nation, Taylor said. The group regularly hosts two events a month, at locations around the state. There are occasional co-ed events; educational evenings that focus on home brewing; and social awareness events to raise money for charity.

At the heart of each get-together is the chance to meet new people, while visiting and promoting Connecticut’s established and up-and-coming breweries and restaurants. The popularity of the events shows the group has tapped into a recent trend among women.

“It’s a growing demographic,” Taylor said of women in craft beer.

The chance to visit a local, popular eatery was among the draws for Matlock.

“You get to go to different restaurants and bars that you might never have gone to otherwise,” she said.

Taylor pointed out that even in Norwich, where These Guys recently opened, there are plans for another brewery to open soon. And although currently serving a variety of local and regional craft beers, These Guys plans to launch its own brews in the coming weeks.

“It really is up and coming,” Taylor said of the state’s craft beer community. “For a little state, there really is a lot happening.”