(Chicago, IL) – Lagunitas Brewing founder, Tony Magee, announced Chicago plant leadership on Twitter on Saturday morning.

“We’ve found our dream supreme head brewer there, and (wait for it) Her name is Mary! In other words, the potentially largest craft brewing facility in the USofA will be led in the brewhouse by a full-on capital ‘w’- Woman. Mary comes out of a relief brewmaster position at a handful of Bud plants & we dig’er big time. Mary Nowak will be starting up with us soon as she moves her family down from MN & gets settled. …it should be noted that Mary also goes by Mary Bauer (multiple identities are a uniquely feminine feature here in the 21st century)…”

More on Bauer… she is a native of a Chicago suburb and attended college in Illinois. Her career started out with Anheuser-Busch in St. Louis and then Atlanta. She then joined Pepsi in Minnesota as a warehouse supervisor. [Note: not sure whether she held a position after that before Lagunitas]

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Meanwhile, “the guy that’ll be responsible for the whole brewery [is] Brandon Greenwood, ex of the Philly beer scene & lately Mike’s Hard.”

Greenwood has been with Lagunitas (Petaluma) since July 2012 as Vice President of Brewery Operations according to his LinkedIn page.

Lastly, in Petaluma, Magee says that he has surrendered the brewmaster title to long-time head brewer, Jeremy Marshall.