Brewers
This wing includes the people who conceptualize and create the beer (they may may also be brewery Founders/ Owners)
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Teri Fahrendorf 2026
Garrett Oliver 2026
2026 Inductee
Teri Fahrendorf
(February 18, 1960 - )
Born and raised in Wisconsin, Fahrendorf attended the University of Wisconsin at Eau Claire and initially made wine at home. After graduation, she moved to San Francisco for work as a computer programmer, where she switched to homebrewing beer. In 1988, she quit computers to attend the Siebel Institute to learn commercial brewing. Coming back to California, she worked for a couple of local breweries, including Triple Rock. But a trip to OBF in Portland led to a job at Steelhead Brewing in Eugene, Oregon, where she was the brewmaster for nearly twenty years.
Fahrendorf famously left Steelhead in 2007 and became a “road brewer,” where she crisscrossed the country, visiting 70 breweries and brewing at 38 of them. The experience, and especially seeing so many women entering the profession, led her to found the Pink Boots Society that same year. Teri left Great Western Malting in 2022 in order to open her ceramic art studio, Rain Dragon Studio.
2026 Inductee
Garrett Oliver
(July 29, 1962 - )
Garrett Oliver is the brewmaster of The Brooklyn Brewery, the author of the bestsellers The Brewmaster’s Table, and the Editor-in-Chief of The Oxford Companion to Beer. He has been brewing craft beer since 1989 and is a veteran of over 1000 beer dinners and tastings in 16 countries. He is widely considered among the foremost authorities in the world on the subject of beer. Garrett is thought to have invented the concept of the brewing collaboration in the mid 1990s.
An original board member of Slow Food USA, he later went on to become a Councilor of Slow Food International. In 2014 Garrett was the recipient of the James Beard Award as the country's top drinks professional.
In 2020 he founded the Michael James Jackson Foundation for Brewing and Distilling (MJF), a 501(c)(3) grant-making non-profit organization that funds scholarships for technical education in the brewing and distilling fields for people of color. He is currently president of the MJF.
In 2022, Garrett was "enthroned" by the Knights of The Brewer's Fork of Belgium, descendants of the ancient brewer's guild.
In 2024, the MJF was named Brewbound “Cause of the Year” and VinePair “Non-Profit of the Year” and his Brooklyn Fonio Rising Pale Ale was named Brewbound “Best New Product” of the year. Garrett lives in Brooklyn and travels worldwide on a regular basis.