![]() I love the creative freedom that comes with designing recipes. As he upgraded his brewhouse, I picked up parts of his old equipment and started brewing on my own. Over the years, I helped Colin with his beers, learning how to brew from scratch. After 10 hours of brewing and cleaning, I stood up, soaked to the bone and tired as hell. Everything that could possibly go wrong, did, from overflowing pots, opened valves, and trouble cooling the wort. ![]() It was probably the hottest day of the year, with temperatures well over 90 degrees. I invited a few friends over and we started brewing my first all grain batch: a double IPA. Due to college and distance, Colin wasn’t able to fulfill that promise until 6 months later, where he brought his whole brewhouse to my house. He promised to show me a few things he picked up.įast forward to July of 2014. I brought my end product to show to my now brother-in-law, Colin, who had been brewing for a few years. Needless to say, my first “beer” turned out to be less than I desired. I brewed my first beer from a kit I got for Christmas in 2013. With a wide range of experiences and a passion to innovate and create beverages stemming from my love of food and beverages from all over the world, I look forward to sharing all of our creations with you! More recently I worked at NOBL beverages where I have learned a great deal about the production non alcoholic craft beverages ranging from coffees and teas to sodas and alternative beverages. I had the opportunity to make some recipes and play around with barrel and blending beers. Fast Forward a couple years and I started professional brewing with Throwback Brewery in North Hampton NH, a small brewery where I learned brewing, cellaring, barrel aging beers, quality control and much more. I started my career path as a brewer at a small homebrew shop (Strange Brew), after a brief few months I took up a position with Iron Heart Canning learning about production in breweries across New England. I had been homebrewing for quite some time now and really love making beer so there it was my calling to be a brewer! ![]() I knew at this time I would have to change my career. After a few years in this career I decided that living and working around big cities (where the good zoos and aquariums are) was not the lifestyle I wanted for myself. With a degree in environmental conservation I started my career as a Zoo Keeper/ Aquarist. I did not start my professional career in the beverage industry. In 2016 I set up a permanent 1 barrel (31 gallons) brewhouse in my garage! Here I have continued to innovate and create brews I like to drink and share with others. As I continued to homebrew, I started brewing more frequently and making larger batches for parties and get-togethers many of these gatherings had upwards of 16 different taps (I had some help from my friends). My first brew larger than 5 gallons was for my wedding in 2013, a 10-gallon batch of Blood Orange Hefeweizen. Soon I outgrew brewing in my small apartment kitchen and started brewing on propane burners outside. 5 hours later we were cooling down the wort to be fermented! I brewed several more times with Andy over those next few months, I was hooked! When summer came he went to Alaska and he sold me his setup as he had no place to store it.Īfter one more brew on my own I stepped up to brewing all-grain beer (beer produced from malted grains). He was partial-mash brewing a technique using about half the grains needed for sugars that is steeped for flavor and some sugar, the rest of the sugar for alcohol conversion comes from malt extract. He had been brewing for a year or so and invited me to join him for a brew. I started brewing in the winter of 2011 when my best friend from college Andy moved into the apartment next door.
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