Robbinsdale’s Amanda Carlyle, Wicked Wort Brewing GM, Remembered for ‘Infectious Smile’
There are heavy hearts in the city of Robbinsdale, which lost a beloved friend, neighbor and community leader.
Amanda Carlyle, who served as general manager and chief financial officer at Wicked Wort Brewing, died July 31 of cancer. She was 37.
Carlyle also was a past president of the Robbinsdale Chamber of Commerce.
Her family said she was always willing to “lend a helping hand and a listening ear.”
“She took care of everything here, which was so important,” said Steve Carlyle, Amanda’s father and owner of Wicked Wort Brewing. “She’d be here when we got here in the morning and she’d be here when we leave at night. And that would be seven days a week sometimes.”
Carlyle battled breast cancer. She thought she had it beat. Until the cancer came back.
In a posting on the brewery’s Facebook page, her family said she was “a fighter til the end.”
The family plans to celebrate Amanda’s life on Sunday.
“This is also not going to be a dress-up event, this is an event — come as you are. Because if I would ever get dressed up for this, she’d look at me like ‘where the hell you going?'” laughed Steve Carlyle.
photo of Amanda Carlyle
A celebration of Amanda Carlyle’s life will take place from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 18, at Wicked Wort Brewing in downtown Robbinsdale.
