Belle Livingstone
Prohibition speakeasy owner
Prohibition speakeasy owner
Tatsu’uma Kiyo built her family’s sake business into an empire in the 1800s
Robertson built the family business into Edrington, one of the largest producers of scotch whisky and the owner of Macallan, Highland Park, and The Famous Grouse.
“The First Lady of Laphroaig,” as a writer would later dub her, declaring “she occupies an almost talismanic position in Scotch whisky history as the person who, without fanfare, proved that given the opportunity women could do so much more in a distillery than type or make tea.”
Polish-Canadian organized crime boss
Co-founder of the Tyne Bank Brewery in Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Chemical engineer and distiller
Chemical engineer Meghan Ireland is Chief Blender at the WhistlePig distillery in New England, managing the whiskey from barrel to bottle.
Colombia’s first female chemical engineer
Jessie Ferguson worked for Barrett Brothers and Burston, maltsters, 1937-1974, retiring as chief analytical chemist.