Born in Mechelen, Regina Wauters was the daughter of a rich local brewer.
[1] She married Pedro Rodenbach in 1818 and moved to Roeselare in West Flanders, Belgium, where his family had a distillery.
Pedro had to sign legal documents to recognize her as sole proprietary of the brewery and any other property that he had bought from his family.
She suffered from the fierce competition with Anna Gesquiere, who also ran a brewery in Roeselare.
In 1864 Regina sold him, at the age of 69, her brewery, her house and workshops, along with eleven bars she had bought.