JODI ANDREWS-STOUDT recalls seeing Woody Mott as a boy at gatherings for brewers outside Boston in the early 1990s.

As brewers, including Mott’s father, Tod Mott, met up to learn about the craft in the pre-internet area, the red-headed little boy did what boys do.

“He ran around, this scrawny little kid with his curly top hair, and he was safe, no matter what,” Andrews-Stoudt recalled. “He was Tod’s kid, everybody always watched out for Woody. He was just running everywhere. That’s how I remember Woody.”

Andrews-Stoudt, who has moved on from making beer to judging beer professionally, was on hand for a special celebration in September as Woody, 34, officially took over Tributary Brewing Co., in Kittery, Maine, from Tod, 67.

“My heart just swelled,” she said.

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