Johnson traveled the world exploring various beer and food cultures which inspired Johnson to start home-brewing when she moved to the United States. Johnson’s adoptive parents worked for the U.S Department of Defence which required traveling across Europe. Johnson had been adopted by Collette’s employers, the Johnsons, at four days old. Colette made the decision to put Johnson up for adoption before she returned to Ireland.
Colette, pregnant with Johnson, feared religious repercussions returning to her Irish-Catholic family in Ireland. Colette worked as a ( au pair) housemaid in Germany. Her birth mother Colette, an Irish immigrant, met Johnson’s father who was an African-American soldier stationed in Germany. Biography īorn in Germany, Johnson was exposed early as a child to beer and food culture in Europe. She is a regularly featured contributor to Craft Beer & Brewing Magazine. She's an active member of Pink Boots Society which promotes women in the beverage industry, and as an elected member of American Homebrewers Association’s Governing Committee. Shortly after she had heard about winning the AHA 2013 award she quickly accepted her job offer to be part of PicoBrew as Chief Brewing Office and recipe developer. In addition to that work, she is a Nationally ranked judge for the Beer Judge Certification Program and serves as proctor and exam grader. After an extensive career with the California State Legislature she began working for PicoBrew, a product development company in Seattle, WA that specialized in automated brewing equipment. In 2012, she won Pilsner Urquell's Master Homebrewer Competition held in San Francisco, where Master Brewer Vaclav Berka ( Czech Republic)) said the beer tasted like he was home. She was the first woman in thirty years, and the first African American person ever, to win the award. Annie Johnson is a brewer who won the American Homebrewers Associations' Homebrewer of the Year award in 2013.
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