Geist was established by Narayan Manepally and Paul Chowdhary in 2006. Since setting up a microbrewery was almost impossible at that time the option was to take the recipes abroad, get them made there, and import to India. They chose du Bocq in Belgium as the licenses were easier to come by and the people understood their beer. In 2013 the law changed and it became possible to start an inhouse microbrewery at the The Biere Club in Bengaluru. A couple of years later they opened their own brewery in Bengaluru.
