Elli was born in Tanunda to Maggie and Colin Beer and attended high school at Scotch College in Adelaide.

She continued the family tradition in food and hospitality through a number of iterations, many with her late sister, Saskia, providing catering services in the Barossa and beyond.

They opened the Barossa Function Centre in 2008, which has been reimagined into The Eatery, a lunch restaurant and cooking school where ‘generations learn about food’. The evolution of the original Pheasant Farm to the current multi-purpose facility managed by Elli is a success story born of hard work, initiative and creativity. It continues to be a flagship of the Barossa food tourism offering.

Her contribution to the community has included multiple Vintage Festival committees; she is always ready to instigate new events or reinvigorate traditional events to meet new challenges.

She started the Barossa and Light Riding for the Disabled program, assisted with funding the second Barossa Sculpture Symposium and led a 3 year fundraising effort for the Carers Link Youth Program, with the Gamekeepers Balls and the Pheasant Pluckers Lunch.

She is the recipient of Regional and SA tourism awards and a participant in the SATC emerging products program.

Elli has three children, Zoe, Ben and Darby.