Marion Mahony Griffin, one of the world's first female architects, drew the designs that would end up shaping the city.

But it is her husband, Walter Burley Griffin, whose name is most known among Canberrans.

The women at Bentspoke Brewing Company created the smooth new brew, which has notes of pineapple, pear, mango and citrus fruit hop aromas, in memory of the almost forgotten historical figure.

A percentage of proceeds from the beer will go towards the Pink Boots Society, a not-for-profit organisation for women and non-binary people in the fermentation industry.

BentSpoke co-owner Tracy Margrain said women were the historical brewmakers.

"It's always been seen as a bit of a boys' club, or something that women aren't involved in," she said.

"But traditionally, back in the Middle Ages, women were the people who brewed for their families, and then they used to sell to markets."

The brewsters were know as "alewives", European women who made and commercially sold beer all the way back to the 1300s.

During the Middle Ages, the cheap beverage was the most consumed in Europe.

Ms Margrain said while men took over for a while during the industrial revolution, the tide was starting to turn back the other way.

"Now women are starting to come back with the help of Pink Boots, a lot of other women being in the industry and supporting each other, helping people get in," she said.

"And it's based on things that people love doing, like science and chemistry and being physical."

Ms Margrain said Marion's story was analogous to that of modern women in the beer industry.

"I don't think many people know that she was actually so involved in how Canberra ended up to be how it is. And we just think it [matched] quite well with our business as well, being mainly a male-dominated industry," Ms Margrain said.

"She was one of the first women architects in the world. So we just thought that was a fitting tribute to both industries and alums and people who work in industries that are male-dominated."

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The brewer said women's attitudes towards beer as a consumer product were fast-changing, which she hoped would change the mix of genders in the industry.

"The flavours in beer now are so diverse and different, styles are so broad now, it really encourages more women to get into tasting beer, and then maybe they'll get interested in how it's actually made," she said.

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