this is our third you're doing this and
each year we've done this we have picked
beers that we like to drink so we we
pull the members of the the team and say
what are your favorite beers to drink
what styles are closest to that and what
might we call these beers and eventually
a theme just arises the toughest part of
the competition is deciding on what to
brew the competition guidelines are you
have to pick a beer that falls within
BJCP style guidelines but there's a
large variety of styles to choose from
and they didn't specify any further so
you had to pick which style you wanted
to do and then what you were going to do
within that style to make it unique to
make it special but still within style
and that's that's a tricky balance jacob
Ussery the graduate student member of
the team and our official young
professional he wanted to brew a
blueberry wheat and we said well that
sounds a lot like a blueberry muffin is
what its gonna taste like and that led
to oh we could make ginger snaps and hey
we should do something with lemon bars
and just follow through from there and
NMS brews started approximately four
years ago and it started with a gift
from one of our alumni ranks Idaho and
the original intent had been to get new
equipment for unit operations laboratory
where chemical engineers get their hands
on training Frank Seidel realized and
recognized what chemical engineers can
do in the rise of craft brewing in this
state and in many places around the
country
and said I want chemical engineers to
know how to apply their engineering
skills to brewing and so I'm not going
to get you a fermenter I'm gonna get you
a brewery and your job is to design the
program to have chemical engineers to
supply their skills to the brewing
program and use that brewing program to
support the industry and that began NMS
brew
