Going in as a chemistry major, not
many people think of brewing as a
potential career path but it's all about
applying the skills that you have gained.
It's amazing how many of the different
skills they have to apply whether it be
the math to figure out what we need
percentages for grains. Figure out how
much beer we need to make to stay with
production. With the chemistry obviously
all the water chemistry and all the
enzymatic things that are going on with
the beer. From my time where I worked in
the wet lab I learned a lot about the
reverse osmosis system we have to use.
So, the beer culture course was an amazing experience.
Started in Germany then we
went to Belgium and England where we
toured multiple cities and over a dozen
different breweries.
Dr. Timpson, who was my advisor was one of the ones that was running this course and I knew as soon
as he opened it up for the second time
that I had to be going on this.
And from there I ended up actually moving in
front of one of the brewers from Newport
Craft who was able to bring me on board
and show me how it's done on a
commercial scale.
