‘It’s a vocation’: the women leading Barcelona’s craft beer revolution

Female brewers in the Catalan capital are finding success in an industry traditionally dominated by men

It was Steve Huxley, a Liverpudlian and long-term Barcelona resident, who introduced the city to craft beer when he opened the Barcelona Brewing Company in 1993, but it was a woman, Judit Cartex, who helped establish Barcelona as Spain's craft beer capital.

Beer has always been a part of my life," she says. We were poor and all we had to drink was tap water, no Coca-Cola. Except on Sundays my mother and grandmother would open a litre bottle of beer to watch football on TV. Very English, no?