page_title: Annie Johnson (brewer)
section_title: Professional history
hierarchical_section_title: Annie Johnson (brewer) / Professional history
caption_attribution_description: English: Picture of a glass of beer.
context_page_description: Annie Johnson is an award-winning brewer who won the prestigious American Homebrewers Associations' Homebrewer of the Year award in 2013, becoming the first woman in thirty years, and the first African American person ever to ever win the award. In 2012, she won Pilsner Urquell's Master Homebrewer Competition held in San Francisco, where Master Brewer Vaclav Berka said the beer tasted like he was home. After an extensive career with the California State Legislature she began working for PicoBrew, a product development company in Seattle, WA that specializes in automated brewing equipment. In addition to that work, she is a Nationally ranked judge for the Beer Judge Certification Program as well as serving proctoring and grading exams. Shortly after she had heard about winning the AHA 2013 award she quickly accepted her job offer to be part of PicoBrew’s recipe developer and Pink Boots Society which promotes women as beer professionals in the beer industry. Johnson now considers herself as an old-school classic brewer.
context_section_description: Annie Johnson’s history includes working as an Information Technology Specialist with the Office of Legislative Counsel, State of California, where she spent over seventeen years, ranging from May of 1994 to August of 2011. Following her departure from her position with the State of California, as well as leaving California itself, Johnson became the Director and Brewmaster of PicoBrew, a Seattle based company that produces brewing equipment to make homebrewing easier and more accessible to the common man, as well as producing different recipes that get uploaded to the digital library that the PicoBrew equipment -such as the Zymatic home brewing system- and anyone who owns it has access to. Also following her relocation to Seattle, Johnson started working as the Brewmaster for the Bluebird Microcreamery and Brewer, which is a brewery/ice cream shop that specializes in dessert beers. Respectively, Johnson has been with the companies from January 2014 and August 2016 to present.
caption: Glass of beer representing home brewing.
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