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Brewer, Celis Brewing

Austin

Having grown up knowing how important my grandfather was to the Belgian and Texan craft beer industries — his old Celis brewery, opened in 1992, was Austin’s first brewery in almost 100 years — and when he passed away in 2011, I was looking for a direction and decided I wanted to fulfill a passion that my grandfather expressed so vividly. After helping my mother, Christine Celis, launch her Gypsy series I felt I was ready to explore my curiosity of beer and moved to Buffalo, New York to intern at Old First Ward Brewpub for a year. To gain further experience, I started working as a brewer at Uncle Billy’s Smokehouse & Brewery, where I worked in an environment that not only taught me the aspects of brewing for a brewpub but helped me develop my brewing knowledge for the distribution side of the business. During this time I became a member of the Pink Boots Society, which taught me a lot about female empowerment in the beer industry. In 2017 I started working at the new Celis Brewery where I plan to continue my Pierres' legacy and re-establish the Celis name in the craft beer world.