Mary

Pellettieri

Mary Pellettieri is the co-founder of Top Note, a premium tonic and soft drink company based in Milwaukee, after establishing a groundbreaking career as one of the first women in brewing in the 1990s and early 2000s. She parlayed an early fascination with brewing beer in her basement to brewer and quality control positions at Goose Island and MillerCoors, eventually writing the literal book on quality in brewing and becoming an educator at the Siebel Institute. In 2014, she bottled up all this experience and launched Top Note Tonic, a line of craft mixers, to bring a brewer’s eye for complex flavors to an industry where they were sorely lacking.