Human Resources Manager, Sierra Nevada Brewing Co
Carrie has arguably the best human resources position in Northern California as the HR manager for Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. An 18-year veteran of human resources, she spent years doing people-related work in healthcare and education prior to arriving at SNBC over 10 years ago. Although her degree in public health from UNC-Chapel Hill may seem an anomaly in the brewing world, beer has been proven beneficial to your health in numerous studies, right? A staunch believer in the importance of people to any employer, she promises to provide an informative and entertaining look at the people side of brewery management.
Seminar: Human Resource for Non Human Resource People
Christian is founder and president of Overshores Brewing Company in Connecticut. Incorporated in 2010, Overshores is Connecticut’s first and only dedicated brewer of Belgian style beers. Christian has an MBA from Boston College’s Carroll Graduate School of Management and took Overshores’ business plan to the finals in two separate business plan competitions before starting the brewery.
Sam is the senior brewer at Breakside Brewery, where he has won medals at the Great American Beer Festival and World Beer Cup. Sam started homebrewing while studying at Lewis and Clark College and later worked at Härle Brauerei in southern Germany before joining the Breakside team.
Ron and his childhood friend Bill Covaleski met on a school bus in 1973; 23 years later, after working in pioneering microbreweries and studying in Germany, Ron and Bill founded Victory Brewing Company. After some homebrewery experimentation, Ron decided to turn brewing into a career. He secured an apprenticeship at the Baltimore Brewing Company under the German-trained Dutch brewmaster Theo deGroen, to fulfill prerequisites before traveling to German to attend the Technical University of Munich at Weihenstephan. Ron helped Old Dominion Brewing Company’s production soar from 1,500 annual barrels to nearly 15,000 in four years’ time. Ron and Bill leveraged their expertise to launch Victory Brewing Company in 1996. Victory’s craft beers can be found in 29 states and three countries. Victory also serves its 
Brandon is a commercial lender for Virginia Commerce Bank. He has been in banking since 2000, spending the first six years of his career on the retail side. After serving as a branch manager for the majority of those years, he transitioned into Virginia Commerce Bank’s credit administration department and eventually into his current role. He specializes in small business lending and manages a portfolio that includes over 100 clients and $50 million in outstanding loans. In 2011, he received an award from the Business Finance Group for work related to the Small Business Administration’s 504 Lending Program.
Alicia co-founded FiftyFifty Brewing Company with her husband Andy in 2007. After spending eight years at Hewlett Packard as an R&D engineer, she quit her job, sold their house and stock options, moved to Truckee and put everything they had into beer. Alicia does everything from finance to brand management, not to mention, assistant brewing, bartending, customer service and janitorial duties—and she loves every moment of it.
Andy co-founded FiftyFifty Brewing Company with his wife Alicia in 2007. After spending 10 years at Hewlett Packard as an engineering manager, he quit his job, sold their house and stock options, moved to Truckee and put everything they had into beer. Andy does everything from finance to brand management, not to mention, assistant brewing, bartending, customer service and janitorial duties—and he loves every moment of it.
Michelle has been Human Resources Manager at Great Lakes Brewing Co. (GLBC) for three exciting years. She graduated from Baldwin-Wallace College in 2005 with a bachelor’s in business administration, with an emphasis on HR and Management and has worked in the field ever since. Her experience includes a wide range of HR, including recruiting and hiring, employee relations, training and development, performance management, strategic planning, and benefit administration and compensation. Over the past three years at GLBC, Michelle has had the privilege of implementing some exciting changes and helped grow the company from 125 to 190 employees.
As global online community manager, Michael has brought exuberance, humor and style to Whole Foods Market’s presence in the social space. His dedication to maintaining the perfect combination of marketer, PR pro, foodie, psychologist and active community member is what has helped him grow the brand’s social community to over 4 million friends, followers and fans. Michael has presented at conferences for PRNews and Ragan Communications and spoken for American Marketing Association and Social Media Club Austin. When @Bepkoboy isn’t busy managing Whole Foods Market’s growing social communities, he enjoys: #Food #Wine #Beer #RollerCoasters #Dogs #Bikes and #Oversharing and has a tendency to communicate thoughts and ideas in 140 characters or less.
Rick graduated with bachelor’s and master’s degrees in chemical engineering from the University of Colorado at Boulder. He started his professional career as a process engineer for natural gas processing but decided that beer was his destiny. He is currently the QA analyst in Stone’s production department specializing in small batch and barrel aged beer.
Eric has been brewer at Summit Brewing for more than 16 years and has been responsible for the brewery’s production scheduling for over four years.
David is controller at Half Acre Beer Company in Chicago. Prior to joining Half Acre, David spent eight years with Porte Brown LLC, a public accounting firm where he earned his CPA (Certified Public Accountant) and CVA (Certified Valuation Analyst) credentials. During his time in public accounting he specialized in taxation, business valuation and consulting. His passions include amateur bicycle racing, cooking, nature and spending time with friends and family.
Danny leads Nielsen’s Beverage Alcohol Client Service team, supporting relationships with Nielsen’s many clients in the beer, wine and spirits industry, as well as with key industry groups and the media. In this role, Danny and his team provide business information, analysis and insights to a broad customer base. Danny has over 10 years of experience specific to the beverage alcohol industry and close to 30 years with Nielsen in both Canada and the United States, holding a variety of marketing and sales positions. Danny holds an honors bachelor of business administration from York University in Toronto, Canada.
As Human Resource Director, Jenny leads a team of amazing people who run all things HR including training, payroll, benefits, recruiting, staffing, perks, compliance, events and – of course – fun! Jenny joined the New Belgium team in 2004, bringing with her nine years of human resources management experience in the industries of construction and communications for both private and public companies. She brings a non-traditional viewpoint relying primarily on values and communication with a very limited policy framework. She is involved in the ESOP community and enjoys the rewards of working in an open book, open communication company. She holds a B.S. in community health and mathematics and has studied leadership theory. Certifications include global human resources, health education, law, compensation, performance theory and 
Robyn was unwittingly lured into the beer business as Ladyface Ale Companie was opening its doors in 2009. Years spent coordinating motion pictures, producing TV commercials and wrangling school fundraisers give her the Jill-of-all-trades attitude to handle whatever Ladyface throws at her, which is pretty much everything. As communications & operations director, she handles social media, public relations, payroll, bookkeeping, human resources and compliance. Robyn’s biggest fear is that someone will add simultaneous juggling and plate spinning to her job description.
Dean Browell leads Feedback’s social media charge as executive vice president and resident Ph.D., with a passion for how generations interact online. His work can be seen across many industries including tourism, automotive, retail, healthcare, education and more.
Brian “Spike” Buckowski is brewmaster and co-founder of Terrapin Beer Company. Creating world class beer recipes for Terrapin is not only his job, but his passion. Since Terrapin’s launch in 2002, Brian has racked up numerous medals and awards for his outstanding brews. This includes a gold medal at the Great American Beer Festival for his Rye Pale Ale and a silver medal at the World Beer Cup for his Golden Ale.
Not only does Brian brew beers at Terrapin, but he also travels to other breweries in the US and abroad to collaborate with other brewers. These travels keep his brewing skills fresh and helps him understand how other breweries perfect their craft. Brian is a current member of the Master Brewers Association and Georgia 
Bill Butcher spent 18 years in the fine wine business before founding Port City Brewing Company in 2011. He spent many years working with Robert Mondavi Wine Company building world-class fine wine brands in the Mid-Atlantic market. Bill’s expertise in wine sales and the three-tier distribution system helped him quickly establish Port City Brewing as a quality leader in the D.C. and Mid-Atlantic craft beer market. Port City’s distribution now covers Maryland, D.C., Virginia and North Carolina.
Doug is the senior buyer for beer at Meijer Inc., a Michigan-based retailer operating 199 Supercenter stores in five states in the Midwest. With 40 years experience in food retailing, Doug has had the opportunity to work with many of the top CPG companies across many categories. Using his years of experience in numerous category management activities, Doug and his team have developed a fact-based, consumer-focused approach to beer that has proven to be successful.
Dick Cantwell is a 20-year veteran of Seattle craft brewing. Since 1996 he has been head brewer at Elysian Brewing Company, which now has three pub locations and is currently engaged in opening a production brewery during the coming summer. In addition to brewing, he has written for many beer publications and in 1997 published the Brewers Publications stylebook on Barley Wine with Fal Allen. Elysian was named Large Brewpub of the Year at GABF in 1999, 2003 and 2004, and in 2004 Dick also received the Russell Schehrer Award for innovation and excellence in brewing.
In 1996, John became the first executive director of the Colorado Brewers Guild. The guild is a non-profit corporation representing the business and legislative interests of the Colorado craft brewer. John represents the guild and its members on both the state and federal level. He played a large role in creating the guild’s annual beer-lover event, the Colorado Brewers Rendezvous held in Salida every July. Carlson is active in the local homebrew community and sits on the steering committee of the Rocky Mountain Microbrewing Symposium. John earned his law degree from the University of Denver and an MBA from the University of Colorado. When not representing the interests of Colorado craft brewers, John enjoys spending time with his wife Caroline and son Jack.
Bob joined the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) in 1990 and now serves as lender relations specialist within SBA’s Finance Division. In his current position Bob works directly with area lenders, Certified Development Companies and Community Development Corporations to improve their understanding of, and increase their participation in SBA’s loan programs. Bob trains, counsels and advises lenders and small business owners in an effort to improve access to capital for the small business community.
Troy graduated from the University of Colorado, Colorado Springs in 2006 with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry. He was a brewing apprentice at Bristol Brewing Company in 2005. During this time, he tasted his first sour beer. He worked as a lab and brewing intern at Coors Brewing Company before going to the University of California at Davis in 2006 to complete a MSc. in food science. He worked as a brewing group manager for Anheuser-Busch at the Fairfield, California brewery from 2007 to 2008. Since 2008 he has worked as a brewer for AC Golden Brewing Company in Golden, Colorado.
Tony received his bachelor of accountancy as well as his bachelor of business administration in management from the University of North Dakota in 1997. A farm kid from North Dakota, Tony has been in food manufacturing for more than 10 years. He has been with the Summit team since 2002, taking them from handwritten orders, Excel spreadsheets and walking papers around the office to a fully integrated ERP/MRP system in just under five years. Future endeavors for Summit include: a CRM solution, online customer portal and RFID tracking of inventory at the brewery and in the marketplace.
After leaving seminary in 1997, Larry decided a brewing career was his higher calling. He first learned on the job and then attended the American Brewers Guild course in 1998. He subsequently worked at two other brewpub companies before landing at his current position at Standing Stone Brewing Co. in Ashland, Oregon. Larry has developed and led server beer training programs throughout his entire career. Outside of brewing, Larry regularly plays with his two labradors, Belle and Hops.
Cheri is the sustainability coordinator at Sierra Nevada. Cheri has been with the company for six years and is responsible for educating employees on environmental issues and programs, maintaining current policies and projects, and working on new project development. Among many tasks, Cheri is responsible for Sierra Nevada’s GHG inventory, monitoring energy use, conservation, and generation, managing waste avoidance, recycling and composting efforts, researching and implementing alternative fuel options and works toward water conservation and reuse. Cheri has a B.A. and an M.A. in environmental geography.
Rob is the quality assurance manager at Avery Brewing Company in Boulder, Colorado. He has held this position since 2010 and after starting at Avery in 2006. He’s done every job at the brewery, include brewing, filtering, centrifuge operation and packaging. He has a B.S. in molecular biology from the University of Wyoming, making Avery’s lab and quality program a perfect fit. Rob is active in the brewing community as a member of the Master Brewer’s Association of America and the American Society of Brewing Chemists.
Vinnie is the co-owner of Russian River Brewing Company with his wife Natalie. The brewery is located in beautiful Sonoma County, California. Russian River has two facilities, a brewpub in downtown Santa Rosa as well as a production brewery nearby. Russian River specializes in IPAs, Belgian-inspired brews and barrel-aged sour beers. Vinnie was recipient of the 2008 Russell Schehrer Award for Innovation in Craft Brewing.
After developing an appreciation for craft beer while living in Portland, Oregon, Acacia moved to Durango, Colorado for college, and finished her degree in international business in Chambéry, France. After college, she began work with the Center for Creative Leadership, a world-renowned non-profit executive leadership and research organization. During her four years at CCL, she coordinated and managed leadership programs for executives from countless industries around the world. Currently, Acacia works with the government affairs team of the BA as the State Brewers Associations Coordinator, traveling the nation in support of America’s craft brewers guilds.
Dave is the co-founder and head brewer at Sun King Brewing Co. He began his professional brewing career at Circle V Brewing in Indianapolis circa 1996. He later moved to the Ram Restaurant and Brewery, where he was the Head Brewer from 2002 to 2009 when he left to open Sun King with friend and fellow brewer, Clay Robinson. Sun King began production in 2009 and has grown from 500 barrels their first six months to producing over 15,000 barrels in 2012. Sun King self-distributes all of their beer in Indiana and has been honored with twelve Great American Beer Festival medals and five World Beer Cup awards.
Gwen holds the position of director of brewery production and quality assurance at Port Brewing/The Lost Abbey. She is responsible for overseeing and managing the brewhouse, packaging, production planning/scheduling, quality control laboratory and brewery maintenance. Gwen was previously the quality assurance director at Flying Dog Brewery and flavor panel leader at Ball Corporation. She also was a biology teacher and environmental chemist. Gwen has bachelor’s in biology with a minor in chemistry. A veteran judge at the World Beer Cup and the Great American Beer Festival, and an Instructor at the American Brewer’s Guild Gwen is the PR/communications chairman of the MBAA Southern California district.
As an experiment for Chanukah 1996, Jeremy founded Shmaltz Brewing Company from his apartment in San Francisco with the first contract-brewed batch of 100 cases of HE’BREW® beer bottled, labeled and delivered by hand from the trunk of his grandmother’s Volvo. 16 years later, with 10 full-time employees, Shmaltz sells nearly 15,000 barrels of over 20 beer styles to 35 states through over 4,000 retailers. Ranked in 2012 as one of the Top-50 Brewers in the World by RateBeer.com, Shmaltz was also included in the Top-50 Fastest Growing Bay Area Companies by San Francisco Business Times and is a recipient of the Distinguished Business Award by the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce. In 2010, Jeremy released a small business memoir, Craft Beer Bar Mitzvah, How It 
Tom Dargen is director of brewing operations for CraftWorks Restaurants and Breweries, where he oversees the Gordon Biersch group of 35 restaurant-breweries and brewers spread across the United States and Taiwan. He began his brewing career at the first brewpub in Colorado in 1988 and has designed, built, managed and consulted on scores of brewery restaurants, working with both iconoclastic individual owners and big multi-unit corporations.
Arthur J. DeCelle is counsel in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP, based in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office. He focuses his practice on alcohol beverage regulation at all levels of government and on legal and public policy challenges facing heavily regulated industries. Prior to joining McDermott, Art was the general counsel of the Beer Institute for 16 years. From 1981 to 1994, Art held senior staff positions in the U.S. House of Representatives and worked on several federal political campaigns.
Josh Deth is chairman of the party at Revolution Brewing in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood. Revolution Brewing operates two facilities, an award-winning brewpub and a 50,000 square foot production brewery that is rapidly expanding. Previously he owned Handlebar, a small vegetarian bar and grill with a cozy beer garden and plenty of bike parking out back. After landing his first brewery job cleaning kegs at age 20, Josh later spent three years at Goose Island Beer Company. He also spent time as a community organizer, running the neighborhood chamber of commerce and growing the local farmers market. Josh serves as treasurer of the Illinois Craft Brewers Guild and is a graduate of the Siebel Institute of Brewing.
Shawn is one of four founding partners of Coronado Brewing Company. The brewpub opened in 1996 and has expanded into the current production facility in San Diego. Shawn was Corondado’s first brewer and is now director of brewery operations. He also serves as the president of the San Diego Brewers Guild.
Mike started farming and malting in 1998 during and after a 30-year career in the hotel and foodservice industry; 10 years before, he started homebrewing under the tutelage of Spinnakers brewmaster Jake Thomas at one of Canada’s first brewpubs. Currently, Mike is a partner in Skagit Valley Malting while continuing to run his own floor malting facility and grain farming operation on the Saanich Peninsula nearby Victoria, BC. He connected with the Driftwood Brewing Company and has been supplying them with malt for some of their seasonal brews, most recently the Sartori fresh hop IPA.
Six years ago, Cindy traded in her navy suits along with the conformity of the banking industry for the awesomeness of the craft brewing industry. As Dogfish Head Craft Brewery’s Off-centered Human Resources director, Cindy focuses on keeping her 180-plus off-centered co-workers happy, healthy and hardworking. At home, Cindy shares the love with two wonderful men—one who wears the pants and one who wears the diapers. There is a downside to all her good fortune, though: “Laugh lines,” Cindy says. “And I’m Botox averse!”
Ben is brewmaster at Breakside Brewery, where he has won medals and awards at both the Great American Beer Festival and World Beer Cup. He was educated at the Siebel Institute, Doemens Academy (Munich) and Yale University. He is a member of the board of directors of the Oregon Brewers Guild. As founding brewmaster at Breakside, he has helped grow the small pub brewery into a successful regional company.
An owner and brewer of Occidental Brewing Company in Portland, Oregon, Dan is often described by those who know him as a mad scientist. If you saw his basement, you’d know why. Having never taken a car to a mechanic or paid someone to work on his house, Dan designs and builds much of his own gadgetry, from control systems to databases to brewhouse hardware, saving money while getting the job done right for a brewery-specific installation.
Ruth is chief executive officer of BFBi, a trade association representing the entire value chain supplying the brewing industry. She hosts a number of industry trade committees, where experts from the entire value chain meet to address issues of legislation, minimum best practice and safety standards. She was awarded the MBE (Member of the British Empire) in the 2012 New Years’ Honours List.
Teri is a 25-year veteran of the craft brewing revolution, including 19 years as a Brewmaster. She brings experience of her own serious burn injuries and skin grafts, the safety habits she tried to instill into the many brewers she’s trained, and the safety culture of the malt supply side with Country Malt Group and Great Western Malting Company.
Claudia is a native San Diegan, graphic artist/art director, associate professor at MiraCosta College, partner and cofounder (CFO & social media director) of Aztec Brewing Company and holds a BA in Multimedia and a master’s in educational technology.
Nick Funnell has been brewing in both the UK and U.S., mainly in brewpubs, since 1986. He is head brewer of the Great American Restaurants brewpubs in Northern Virginia and is an instructor at the American Brewers Guild.
Paul is the executive director of a new national non-profit called Recycling Reinvented. Recycling Reinvented, along with several partners including Nestle Waters North America, is promoting increased recycling of consumer packaging and paper through an EPR model. Gardner was the executive director of the Recycling Association of Minnesota from 1997 to 2006. From 2007 to 2010, he served as a state legislator in the Minnesota House of Representatives.
Paul is director of the Brewers Association (BA), the not-for-profit trade association whose purpose is to promote and protect American craft brewers and American craft beer and the community of brewing enthusiasts. Paul is a member of the association’s Brewpubs, Technical, Communications, Market Development, PR & Marketing and Government Affairs committees. Paul’s origin in the beer community started when he took up homebrewing in 1990. He worked on the bottling line at Boulder Beer and owned a pair of homebrew supply shops from 1994 to 1998. He served as director of the American Homebrewers Association for seven years and is in his 12th year as BA director.
Kimberly has spent 25 years with the BC Liquor Distribution Branch, working in a variety of roles, from a product consultant and store management to marketing and purchasing. She has seen a few trends and has enjoyed the past 18 months as the portfolio manager for beer and refreshment beverage.
Since 1995, Matty “Smooth” Gilliland has squandered his waking hours making delicious Colorado craft beer. He joined the production group at New Belgium Brewing in 1997, plying his skills in the fermentation cellar and brewhouse. He’s spent the last five years heading up the process analysis group, steadily working to increase production efficiencies, optimize processes, reduce waste, eliminate capacity constraints and generally smooth things out. He lives with his wife in Fort Collins, where they juggle two careers, two kids, two dogs and too much to do.
Steve began his professional brewing career in 1995 with Sierra Nevada Brewing Company and obtained his master’s of science in brewing and distilling in 2001. From 2002 to 2012 Steve worked in a variety of quality assurance, research and development, and product development roles for various breweries, wineries, and distilleries before finally ending up at Stone.
Matt Gordon is an operations specialist at the Brooklyn Brewery, where he works on a variety of projects related to sales, production, finance, and business management. Previously, Matt was a craft brewery management consultant at BeerCrunch, a company he founded in 2010 to provide strategic, managerial, and operational support to rapidly growing craft breweries with sales between $1 million and $75 million. In 2012, Matt received an MBA from Columbia Business School, where he was the president of the micro-brew society. Matt is also a long-time homebrewer.
Kenny graduated from Macalester College in 1995 with a degree in mathematics and philosophy. His first “real job” after college was working on the bottling line at Summit, where he’s now been for more than 17 years. In his spare time, Kenny enjoys spending time with his wife and two daughters, playing golf and occasionally picking on his ol’ banjo.
Brent is president of Pinnacle Capital, which is the parent company to Brewery Finance, an equipment leasing and finance company that specializes in the craft brewing industry. Headquartered in Tacoma, Washington, the company has offices in Scottsdale, Atlanta, Austin and Denver. A past president of the National Equipment Finance Association, past executive board member of the United Association of Equipment Leasing and past director of the CLP Foundation, Hall has been active in commercial finance for over 23 years and is a Certified Lease Professional.
John Harris has 26 years of experience in the brewing industry, including two years with McMenamin’s breweries, four years with Deschutes, and 20 years with Full Sail. John has been a member of the CBC Technical Committee since 1999. John received the Russell Schehrer Award for Innovation in 2001.
Dr. Patrick Hayes is a professor at Oregon State University, Corvallis. His research focuses on barley in its many forms and uses. His current research interests include: development of winter habit barley varieties for malting and human nutrition, the many facets of winter hardiness, dissection of quantitative disease resistance, characterization and utilization of genetic diversity, stimulating local barley production and barley quality assessment.
Julia is craft beer program Director at the Boulder, Colorado-based Brewers Association and publisher of CraftBeer.com. She is a BJCP beer judge, award-winning homebrewer, a Certified Cicerone® and leader of American Craft Beer Week. Her areas of expertise include: resources and education on craft beer, general statistics on the craft brewer segment, beer styles and trends plus craft beer and food pairing. In her role at the BA she serves as an advocate for and educator about U.S. craft brewers and as a spokesperson for the association.
Karen Hobbs is a senior policy analyst for NRDC’s Water Program. NRDC is a national environmental organization with more than 1.3 million members and online activists. Karen has worked for the City of Chicago and the federal government, as well as other non-profit organizations.
John is the founder of Brewery Insurance Program. Experienced in insuring breweries and food manufacturers, John excels at structuring the proper coverage unique to those companies that manufacture consumable goods.
Peter has been working as a professional brewer since 1998, with experience as a brewer at Sierra Nevada, head brewer at Bison Brewing Company and brewmaster at Sacramento Brewing Company. He was an instructor at the American Brewers Guild for seven years, teaching practical brewing instruction as well as yeast management and enumeration. Currently, he works as a technical sales representative for Brewers Supply Group, covering the West Coast territory.
After spending four uninspiring years on Wall Street, Conor Horrigan left in 2008 to travel the world and figure out what he want to do with his life. While on his trip, he decided to pursue his passion, which was to start a business that brought together refreshing people, refreshing experiences, and refreshing beer. Upon returning from his trip, he got to work on creating the Half Full Brewery. He started by brewing in his kitchen and interning at New England Brewing before going back to UConn to get his MBA and build out his business plan. In the past 18 months, he secured the funding he needed, purchased his equipment, built out the Half Full facility, hired his brew crew, and brought his beer 
Dr. Horsley is the barley breeder at North Dakota State University and head of the department of plant sciences. He earned his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Agronomy from North Dakota State University and his B.S. degree in Agronomy from the University of Minnesota. The primary goal of his breeding project is to release and develop malting barley varieties acceptable to barley producers in North Dakota, adjacent states and the malting and brewing industry. Current research efforts include the determination of DNA “fingerprints” that differentiate varieties for specific brewer’s needs and identification of genes for resistance to pre-harvest sprouting.
Larry is regional brewer at Iron Hill Brewery & Restaurant. He has been a professional brewer since 1992 and has worked at Iron Hill since 2004. He attended Ohio State University and is a graduate of both the MBAA malting and brewing science program at the University of Wisconsin, Madison and the American Brewer’s Guild brewery science and engineering program. He teaches courses annually on brewing, judging beers and sensory analysis. He is president of the Master Brewer’s Association of the Americas Philadelphia district and was a William R. Hipp scholarship recipient. Iron Hill has nine locations in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware and was chosen Great American Beer Festival Large Brewpub of the Year for 2005, World Beer Cup Large Brewpub of the Year 
Tony is manager of continuous improvement at Owens-Illinois, Inc. (NYSE: OI). He is based at the company’s worldwide headquarters in Perrysburg, Ohio. Howell is responsible for executing the company’s quality priorities aimed at improving O-I’s position as a leading glass company through quality initiatives and improvement. He coordinates key quality metric reporting in the areas of customer responsiveness, root cause analysis, and effective corrective action item completion.
Howell joined O-I in 1995, serving his first seven years with the company in various engineering roles, including process and furnace development. Before joining O-I, Howell served as a propulsion research assistant at NASA and performed gas plume dynamics research at John Glenn NASA Research Center at Lewis Fields under federal grant funding.
A native of northwest Ohio, Howell holds 
Casey Ingle is a commercial-focused brand leader determined to change the world. A disruptive force in the industry, Casey has spent over a decade crafting game-changing strategies for iconic brands ranging from Carhartt and Cadillac, to Jones Soda and the Olympics. Today he is the driving force behind Glass is Life™, O-I’s global movement for glass packaging.
Michel was chef, sommelier and food & beverage manager from 1980 to 1997 and has been a wine, beer and spirit educator and restaurant consultant since 1992. He’s author of 14 books on wine, beer, spirits and food and wine and beer writer since 1995. He also leads beer schools at the Stockholm Beer Festival.
Scott Jennings is head brewer at Sierra Nevada’s new facility in Mills River, North Carolina, which is slated to start production in the fall of 2013. After graduating from VLB Berlin as brewmaster in 2001, Scott joined Sierra Nevada at its longtime Chico, California, headquarters. While in Chico, he spent several years as a production brewer and eight years as research and development head brewer.
Pete serves as programs manager for the Brewers Association with primary responsibilities in the areas of government affairs and membership programs. He joined the BA at its inception in 2005, having previously worked as programs director for the Brewers Association of America. Before coming to the small brewing industry in 2001, Pete worked for 14 years with both state and federal elected officials in Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C.
Ginger’s qualitative research of women and beer has developed an extensive body of collected insight that relates directly to successfully running a beer business. Women Enjoying Beer (WEB) reminds us all to never assume and always put ourselves in the customer’s position first. She’s presented at previous CBCs, NBWAs and various other acronymistic events. Along the way, she’s been speaking, writing, presenting and edutaining at dozens of festivals and other beer (and food) events around the country. She lives at the edge of the Siskiyou Mountains with her fine husband and two highly entertaining dogs.
Jessica Jones is the chief operating officer at Ninkasi Brewing Company. She has been a member of the Brewers Association Market Development Committee since early 2012, working with the other committee members to support the continued development of the domestic market for craft brewers. Prior to joining Ninkasi, Jessica spent time working for Firestone Walker Brewing Company and in the management consulting industry. Jessica received her B.A. from Harvard and her M.B.A. from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business.
Kim Jordan is CEO and co-founder of New Belgium Brewing Company, which was started in 1991 in the basement of her house. New Belgium was the first brewery in the United States to specialize in Belgian style beer, and Kim has championed innovation among her co-workers in exploring the breadth of interesting styles that this specialty has allowed. New Belgium’s first saison was sold in 1997 and their first Brettanomyces beer, Biere de Mars, has been brewed since 2001. New Belgium began its wood aged cellar and sour beers program in 1997.
Kim was the chair of the Brewers Association of America (BAA) and was the only industry member to serve simultaneously on the BAA and the then-Association of Brewers (AOB) Boards of Directors. She was 
Jaime worked as a Brauerei Praktikant in Bavaria at the breweries of Patrizier-Brau AG in 1983, has been a brewmaster at The Lion Brewery, a brewery engineer in three European breweries, and a commissioning brewer in a modern brewery startup in Rajasthan, India. After departing Stroh, he moved to The Gambrinus Company breweries for 15 years as director of brewing operations. He is a partner in a recent startup brewery in northeastern Pennsylvania, Susquehanna Brewing Company. With an undergraduate degree in chemical engineering, and his Master’s in electrical engineering, he undertook further postgraduate study and engineering research at Oxford University. He has also served as President of MBAA.
Bruce is the marketing director at Hopworks Urban Brewery in Portland, Oregon. He is responsible for communications, messaging and marketing for the company’s two brewpubs and organic beer. Additionally, Bruce leads the company’s social media efforts and assists in the development of branding, labels and merchandise. He joined Hopworks as a freelance media relations consultant in April 2010. Prior to his work with Hopworks, Bruce developed and implemented successful media relations campaigns for a variety of national, regional and local consumer product and retail companies.
Melissa is a TTB tax specialist, working in the Tax Section B group at the National Revenue Center. She has worked for ATF/TTB for the last 14 years and spent the last seven in the Beer Tax Group. She assists breweries in maintaining compliance with regulations and with other tax matters. She verifies that Brewer’s Reports and Excise Tax Returns are completed correctly, timely filed and that they support the payments. Keller also assists taxpayers via telephone and mail explanatory forms, regulations and laws.
Mike is founder and chairman of the Virginia Craft Brewers Guild, and head brewer at Center of the Universe Brewing Company. He was formerly a brewer at Legend Brewing Company, and has completed the craft brewers apprenticeship program at the American Brewers Guild.
Greg Koch is Co-Founder and CEO of Stone Brewing Co. in Escondido, Calif. Since Greg started the company with his partner Steve Wagner in 1996, Stone has become one of the fastest growing and highest rated breweries in the world. Brewing over 148,000 barrels in 2011, Stone was ranked the 11th largest craft brewery in the U.S., a position it achieved without ever advertising, discounting, giving away freebies or compromising. Twice named “All-Time Top Brewery on Planet Earth” by BeerAdvocate magazine, Stone Brewing Co. owns and operates the farm-to-table restaurant Stone Brewing World Bistro & Gardens – Escondido, as well as Stone Catering, Stone Distributing, and Stone Farms.
Brendan is a contributing editor at Wired and the author of both Now the Hell Will Start and the forthcoming The Skies Belong to Us. A former columnist for both the New York Times and Slate who was named one of Columbia Journalism Review’s “Ten Young Writers on the Rise,” he has also written for Harper’s, New York Times Magazine, ESPN the Magazine and many other publications. Visit him at microkhan.com and follow him at @brendankoerner.
Matt is vice president of retail operations at at Victory Brewing Company, where he designed and commissioned Brew Pub on Wheels, a mobile catering unit that can serve beer and food to 3,000 people. He holds a marketing degree from Temple University, worked as restaurant manager at Dock Street Brewery and Restaurant and as acting general manager for Victory Brewing Company’s restaurant from 2003 to 2012.
Jim is Brewmaster and director of brewery operations at Matt Brewing Company in Utica, New York. Jim began his brewing career with the G. Heileman Brewing Company in Frankenmuth, Michigan in 1984 and has been with Matt Brewing since 1991. Jim received his Juice HACCP Certification through Cornell University and has worked with many customers, third party and government inspectors on food safety during his career. Jim currently heads the Master Brewers Association Sub-Committee on Food Safety in Breweries.
Björn joined Ball in 2008 as sustainability manager in the company’s European beverage can business, and was named sustainability director for Ball Corporation in 2011. Based at the company’s headquarters in Broomfield, Colorado, Björn manages and promotes Ball’s corporate sustainability efforts and works with Ball stakeholders on areas of mutual interest, broadening the company’s perspective on sustainability topics beyond its own operations. Björn focuses on driving sustainability throughout the metal packaging value chain and working toward increased metal packaging recycling rates in the United States.
Blaine is the founder, president and CEO of Calicraft Brewing, founded in May 2012. As a start-up company, Calicraft makes beers that draw influence from California’s wine industry. Currently distributed in the San Francisco Bay Area, Calicraft pioneered an emerging category of sparkling ales, beers that use mixed fermentation of beer and wine yeast. Prior to launching Calicraft, Blaine was an early employee at Honest Tea. During his 13 years at Honest Tea, he ran sales, marketing and operations for Honest Tea’s Western Business Unit.
John is a partner and VP of operations and beverage buyer for the Winking Lizard Tavern group, a 17-restaurant, three-concept company, found in Ohio only. A John Carroll University graduate and native of Cleveland, John has been a beer buyer for more than 24 years. Every year since 1998, the Winking Lizard Tavern has won a Silver Spoon award for Best Beer List. He was just recently appointed as a Knight of the Belgium Brewers Mash staff.
After completing an MBA at Tulane University, Chris spent one year with a wholesaler in New Orleans before joining ABC in operations where he was a regional manager, managing a group of stores, before moving into the office as the buyer for beer, tobacco, gourmet and accessories. His great-grandfather started ABC 76 years ago.
Scott LeCorgne, a New Orleans native, began his lifetime passion for the restaurant business as a waiter in a local New Orleans restaurant. He quickly moved up the ranks with experience as a corporate training, floor manager, bar manager and general manager. In 1998, Scott moved to St. Louis and joined the Saint Louis Brewery family starting as a keg cleaner. He moved to general manager within a year, and lead the opening of a second brewpub location with a new bottling plant. Scott transitioned to director of sales in 2005, where he has led the team to increase market share and state coverage.
Alex is controller at Hangar 24 Craft Brewery in Redlands, Calif. Before joining Hangar 24, he worked in public accounting with Smith Marion & Co. as a supervisor of the audit department. He holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration with an accounting concentration from California State University, San Bernardino and a master’s degree in business administration with a finance concentration from the University of Redlands, School of Business. He also licensed in the state of California to practice as a Certified Public Accountant.
Tim has been in the brewing industry for more than 35 years. He first worked in brewing management for large brewers Coors and Stroh. Later he entered the craft brewing sector working in various levels of management. Tim helped start Breckenridge Brewery, Snake River Brewery and Tommyknocker Brewery. For more than 10 years, Tim has been consulting for brewery, brewpub and beverage operations. This includes all aspects from business planning, pro forma, establishing brewery benchmarks, audits, brewery layout, engineering, equipment procurement, packaging, project management, installation, start-up, training, trouble-shooting and recipe formulation. Tim has been involved with the start-up of more than 50 breweries and brewpubs. Tim also provides consulting services to the Siebel Brewing Institute, Chicago and CECON, Wilmington, Del.
Professor emeritus Michael J. Lewis is an internationally recognized brewing scientist and teacher, now retired. He developed the program in brewing science at the University of California, Davis and taught it for more than 35 years until 1998. He now continues in brewing education as the academic director of brewing programs at the University of California Davis Extension where he primarily organizes and teaches (with colleagues) the seminal master brewers program. Professor Lewis has been awarded the Award-of-Merit of the Master Brewers Association of the Americas, the Recognition Award of the Brewers Association, has been elected a Fellow of the Institute of Brewing and Distilling (London), is a Life Member of ASBC, MBAA and IBD, and has won the Distinguished Teaching Award of the University 
Anda Lincoln is one of the founders of the Funkwerks Brewery in Fort Collins. She is a writer, an experienced corporate attorney and a business law instructor. Her practice emphasizes representation of entities of all sizes in connection with controlled beverage law; brewery formation; corporate governance and advising boards of directors; financing transactions; distribution, licensing, and franchise arrangements; employment matters; trademark, trade secret, and other intellectual property issues; mergers, acquisitions, and leveraged buyouts; real estate issues; and general contract drafting and negotiation.
Brad started at Great Western Malting in 1990. After working in production at the malt house and then in barley procurement, he spent the last 12 years dedicated to craft malt sales.
Daniel is principle owner and lead brewer of family-owned Mother Earth Brew Co. in Vista, California. His passion for craft brewing led him away from the corporate world and into the commercial environment. With solid roots in place, and the support of the craft brewing community in San Diego, Mother Earth has grown to be a production brewery, tap house and retail home brew supply store in three short years.
In addition to being a proud father of two great kids and a fun-loving, ski-patrolling organic gardener, John has managed all beer production for Bell’s Brewery in Kalamazoo since 2001. John has proudly served in numerous capacities over his 23-year brewing career, first as Head Brewer of Boston’s Commonwealth Brewery, next as Brewmaster at the Old Dominion Brewing Co. in Ashburn, Virginia and then as founder and president of SAAZ, a brewing equipment and service provider. John serves on many boards and technical committees including Master Brewers Association of the Americas, Brewers Association and American Malting Barley Association. He has authored 40+ technical brewing papers and presentations and have served as member of the Extended Faculty of Siebel Institute of Technology since 1995. In 2002, 
John was appointed administrator of TTB on January 4, 2005. Manfreda served as deputy administrator of TTB since the bureau’s founding in January 2003. As administrator, Mr. Manfreda oversees the collection of $23.5 billion per year in federal alcohol, tobacco, firearms and ammunition excise taxes, as well as the permit systems and regulations established for those industries under the authority of the Internal Revenue Code and the Federal Alcohol Administration Act. Prior to his appointment as Deputy administrator of TTB, Mr. Manfreda was chief counsel for TTB’s predecessor agency, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF), from 1999 – 2003. Manfreda was with the ATF chief counsel’s office or its Internal Revenue Service predecessor for 33 years, beginning as a staff attorney in 1970 
Audra is the contracted chief financial officer at Mother Earth Brewing in Kinston, North Carolina and managing partner at Violent Orchid, a management consultancy firm focused on providing guidance to craft brewing and creative communities. She also serves as Treasurer for the North Carolina Brewers Guild’s board of directors and Weaver Street Market Co-operative’s board of directors. Audra possesses over a decade and a half of experience in senior leadership roles in craft brewing, manufacturing, services, non-profits and startups. Her passions include homebrewing, mobile marketing, crafting stories from numbers and mud running.
Juliet is associate professor of agronomy and cereals cropping systems at the University of Idaho, in the Department of Plant, Soils and Entomological Sciences. Juliet has been responsible for the University’s cereal variety trials in southern and southeastern Idaho since 2004. Additional research areas include cereal root disease in dryland production areas, fertility for end-use quality and product testing (fungicides, biologicals, humic acids, etc). Juliet’s degrees were earned at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, (Ph.D. 1992 in plant pathology) and University of Delaware, (M.S. 1988 and B.S. 1982, both in plant sciences). From 1992 to 2004, Juliet worked for the University of Idaho in southeast Idaho, participating in cropping systems research, including fertility and wheat breeding. She is an active member of the Agronomy Society 
Fred Matt is the president and chief operating officer of the F.X. Matt Brewing Company, the oldest brewery in the state of New York, and second oldest brewery in the country. Fred is the fourth generation of the Matt Family to serve the Company and has been with the brewery since 1989. As a key member of the management team, he has been successful in leading the brewery into new areas of growth and the development of the Saranac brands. Instrumental in expanding the distributor network, Fred has successfully rebuilt the sales and marketing organization in order to support the growth of the Saranac brand and other new products.
Nick is chairman and CEO of the F. X. Matt Brewing Company, brewers of the Saranac line of beers. The brewery is a fourth-generation family business founded by Nick’s grandfather, F. X. Matt, in 1888. This year marks the 125th anniversary of the founding of the brewery. The company is one of America’s few remaining historic regional breweries and has the distinction of being the only heritage brewery that has transitioned itself to be a craft brewer with its Saranac beers. Nick joined the brewery in 1989 after having worked for 15 years with Richardson-Vick’s and Procter & Gamble. Nick is a member of the board of the Brewers Association and currently serves as past chairman.
David is a trade officer in the International Trade Division of the Department of the TTB. He manages the Eurasia and Non-EU Europe and Technical Barriers to Trade portfolios. McCaleb holds an M.A. in international trade and investment policy from George Washington University and a B.A. in economics and Russian and Eastern European studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Theresa is assistant administrator for headquarters operations in the TTB and has direct oversight over TTB’s Advertising, Labeling and Formulation Division, Regulations and Rulings Division, International Trade Division, Scientific Services Division and Knowledge Management Staff. She was appointed to this position in 2012, and served previously for two years as the deputy assistant administrator. Prior to these appointments, McCarthy managed the Regulations and Rulings Division and was responsible for the oversight of the regulatory process including the issuance of notices of proposed rulemaking, Treasury decisions, rulings and procedures. She initiated TTB’s regulations modernization effort in 2003, which over the past six years has involved updating three voluminous parts of TTB regulations to improve regulatory guidance to TTB’s largest industry segments. In 2008 she also spearheaded 
Tom entered the craft brewing industry in 1982. Two years later he founded McCormick Beverage Co., one of the first beer wholesalers in the country that sold craft beer exclusively craft beer. After selling the distribution company, he created an on-site educational seminar for major-brand wholesalers across the country on how to sell craft beer. He also taught classes at the American Brewers Guild and UC Davis Extension and consulted for brewers, wholesalers and importers. In 1997 he was a co-founding partner in Wolaver’s Organic Ales. He later became editor of the online industry newsletter BeerWeek and manger of the online industry resource site ProBrewer.com. In 2006 he became the first executive director of the California Craft Brewers Association.
Todd joined the 7-Eleven team in 2011 as part of the ExxonMobil acquisition. He has over 25 years of experience in consumer goods with both a retail and supplier background. His work experiences include the Pepsi Cola Company, Dr Pepper/7UP, TOSCO Marketing (Circle K) and ExxonMobil (On the Run). Currently, Todd is the Sr Product Director for 7-Eleven: Alcohol and Dairy.
Todd received his undergraduate degree in Marketing from the University of Arizona and holds a Masters Degree in Business from the University of Phoenix. Todd and his wife Deanna currently live in Frisco Texas and have three children.
Kent is senior consulting partner at EKS&H, Colorado’s largest public accounting and consulting firm. McSparran provides consulting services including financial strategies, financial performance improvement and business transition planning for companies in Colorado. He has more than 20 years experience as a management consultant to some of the world’s great beverage companies. His experience as a business owner, management consultant and private equity investor gives him a unique insight into the requirements of building successful businesses.
Scott started his professional career in banking, oil and academia before finding his calling in the far more flavorful world of craft brewing. From a vow made on New Year’s Eve 2005, Freetail Brewing Co. officially opened on Black Friday 2008, becoming San Antonio’s second operating brewery at that time and Scott’s first completed New Year’s resolution. Since then, Freetail has been racking up local, statewide and national awards and recognition as one of the country’s top up-and-coming brewpubs. Named in 2010 as one of San Antonio Business Journal’s Top 40 Under 40, Scott also serves on the board of directors of the Texas Craft Brewers Guild and Co-Chairs the Guild’s legislative committee, helping to lead the charge for positive statutory reform in the state. 
Will homebrewed his first beer over 22 years ago and has subsequently enjoyed a 20-year career at Cambridge Brewing Company. In addition to his authentic interpretations of traditional beer styles, he crafts unique, adventuresome beers, some referencing ancient brews of the world and others breaking new ground in the art of brewing. His focus on experimentation began in 1998 with CBC’s infamous Barrel Cellar and has placed him at the forefront of America’s innovative artisanal brewers.
Rob Miles began his packaging career in the UK with Metalbox, one of Europe’s largest packaging companies, in 1980. After several regional and national sales roles with Metalbox, Rob joined RPC Containers as Commercial Manager, at a time when RPC was preparing a management buy-out and subsequent floatation on the London Stock Exchange. In 1994, Rob joined Continental Can as UK Marketing Manager, based in Chester. In 1999 he became European Marketing Director of Continental Can and spent most of his time in Dusseldorf, the European Headquarters of Continental Can Schmalbach-Lubeca. After the acquisition by Ball Corporation of Continental Can, he was promoted to VP Marketing in 2004, and VP Sales, Marketing, and Strategic Business Development in 2005. He held that position until 2011 when 
Zach graduated from Penn State University in 2010 with a degree in biology. His love of craft beer led him to Victory Brewing Co. in 2011 where he now works as a quality lab technician.
Paul is a landscape architect and partner at Russell + Mills Studios Inc., located in Fort Collins, Colorado. Paul is the lead site designer for New Belgium Brewing’s Asheville brewery. Paul’s career has spanned 18 years, creating experiences for people in a broad range of projects in Australia and the United States. The past three years have included projects within the craft beer industry as a consulting designer. From this experience, Paul understands the unique challenges facing breweries—brewing beer, storage needs, truck access and more—while they also strive to satisfy the fans.
Mack holds a B.A. and M.D. from The Johns Hopkins University. He is president of ABMRF/The Foundation for Alcohol Research and is vice chairman of Internal Medicine at University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas. Previously, he was medical director of ambulatory services and also director of the Department of Gastroenterology (2004-2010) at Johns Hopkins Bayview Medical Center. He has also served as chairman of the Department of Internal Medicine at Carolinas Medical Center, 1996-2003; clinical professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1996-2003; chairman of the Department of Medicine at Greater Baltimore Medical Center, 1991-1996; and associate professor of medicine at the Johns Hopkins University. He is the author of numerous research papers and textbook chapters on alcohol 
Ryan is vice president, North American Government Affairs. Ryan joined O-I in March, 2011. Ryan is a government affairs executive with broad experience in various federal- and state-level government relations. Areas of focus include: energy, government funding, manufacturing, tax, and trade. Results producing professional with a proven 15 year record of accomplishment in government and business legislative strategy. Ryan is a senior lobbyist for O-I and oversees the government affairs initiatives in North America and guides O-I’s efforts in the U.S., Canada, and through the complex process of conveying the company’s message to lawmakers on issues ranging from the importance of recycling glass, environmental sustainability, energy use and efficiency, and innovation leadership through research and development.
Candace is a San Diego-based attorney whose practice is focused on the craft beer industry. She has been a member of the California Bar since 2008 and the Brewers Association since 2009.
Founder of Flying Fish, Gene developed the web’s first “virtual” brewery in 1995 and generated enough media coverage and investor interest to turn Flying Fish into a reality and become the largest of the 25 craft breweries in New Jersey. In 2012, Flying Fish opened a 45,000 s.f. brewery in southern New Jersey with a complete focus on sustainability.
Flying Fish has been twice named among New Jersey’s 25 fastest growing companies. A former The New Brewer regional editor, Siebel graduate, and Brewers Association of America board member, Gene has been involved in the industry since 1993. He currently serves on the BA government affairs committee. He is also is treasurer of the Garden State Craft Brewers Guild and was one of the leaders of a 
Erik has run the gamut of right- and left-brained career choices. With a degree in theater and performance and a long work background in programming, he somehow ended up right in the middle with a beer in hand. He has worked with the North Carolina Brewers Guild, was the executive editor for the Know Your Brewer website and founded the blog Top Fermented, where he comments and podcasts regularly about beer, brewing and the craft beer industry. He has published over 90 columns and is a staff writer at Intrepid Media and ExitEvent. In February 2012, he founded and opened Mystery Brewing Company in Hillsborough, North Carolina. Mystery Brewing Company is the country’s first seasonal-only brewery.
Tom began his professional brewing career at Sierra Nevada in 2004, after obtaining a bachelor of science in food chemistry from Rutgers University. As a student at Rutgers, Tom was immersed in world of flavor analysis while interning at an international flavor company. There, Tom gained valuable experience in gas chromatographic/mass spectrometry/olfactometry (GC/MS/O) analysis. With the guidance of some of the greatest people in the craft brewing world, Tom has translated his enthusiasm and passion for beer, flavor and aroma successfully into the daily brewery setting. Over the last nine years, he has contributed to dozens of projects ranging from flavor stability concerns, cold side hop aroma extraction to development of analytical methods and evaluation of raw materials. His work has earned him the title 
Chris has a B.Sc. from McGill University in Montreal, Canada, a law degree from the University of Ottawa in and is a Seibel graduate. After practicing law for seven long and boring years, Chris finally came to his senses and started working in the brewing industry (his true love) when he joined the family business in 1994. Profamo Inc., has been a supplier of QA and process control equipment to the brewing industry since 1976 and now represents 12 different manufacturers from all over the world.
Sean is Brewery Insurance Program’s claims manager. After 15 years in claims management for several insurance companies, Sean switched to the agency side of the business where he is an expert at helping clients work their way through the insurance claims process to ensure the lowest cost resolution and future low premiums.
Corkie joined her brother Doug and his wife Wynne in opening Odell Brewing Company in 1989. She started out shoveling out the mash tun and cleaning the fermentation tanks. After several years, it was determined that, of the three, she was the one with the most tact, so she climbed out of the tanks and became the human resource department and culture maven. She has experience building a positive and happy place to work from the ground up. Corkie holds a B.S. in sociology.
Jason is founding brewmaster for Devils Backbone Brewing Company of Virginia. Jason has 17 years brewing experience on a diverse range of equipment. In 1998, He attended the UC Davis Master Brewers Program, passed the Institute of Brewing & Distilling Diploma Examination (AME) and holds the 2010 World Beer Cup Champion Brewery & Brewmaster Award for Small Brewpub. He’s also received the 2012 Great American Beer Festival Small Brewpub & Brewmaster of the Year Award. He enjoys delving into the brewing process both on a theoretical and practical level, and thinks that the process is paramount.
Derek converted from a homebrewing chiropractor to a hose-dragging brewer in 1996 in Southern California. He has brewed for BJ’s in California, Oregon, Colorado and Arizona. Derek is currently the director of QC, R&D and OSHA compliance for BJ’s breweries and resides in Arizona with his talented and lovely wife, Melissa.
Charlie is one of the most prominent and recognized names in the world of beer and brewing. His published commentaries provide insights into the industry, advice to homebrewers, and beer perspectives for beer drinkers. Since founding the American Homebrewers Association and Association of Brewers in 1978, he has helped guide the development of the association. He is currently the President of the Brewers Association, whose activities include: American Homebrewers Association, World Beer Cup®, Great American Beer Festival®, Brewers Publications and more. He is founding publisher of and a regular contributor to Zymurgy and The New Brewer.
Neva Parker has been with White Labs, Inc. since 2002. She earned her bachelor’s degree in microbiology from Gonzaga University in Spokane, WA and first became interested in the brewing industry while studying abroad in London. Neva currently manages laboratory operations for headquarters in San Diego and the R&D facility in Davis, California. She is also responsible for developing the White Labs training and consulting program. She has presented at several workshops and conferences and published articles for brewing magazines. She is an active member of the American Society of Brewing Chemists and Master Brewers Association of the Americas.
Paul is founder of WaitersWorld.com and been a hospitality professional for more than 32 years. He continues to ply the trade in “Beervana,” Portland, Oregon. He is co-author to The Professional Waiter and has presented seminars nationally on effective customer engagement using unique tableside service-sales concepts, skills and techniques. He is passionate about hospitality as an industry with careers of choice that offer unlimited opportunity. Paz has been featured in and authored articles for numerous publications including The Washington Post, Bloomberg Business News, Wall Street Journal, Pizza Today Magazine and Nations Restaurant News, and he was interviewed by ABC 20/20, a primetime television program.
Bill is CEO of GuestMetrics and Consumer Edge Research LLC. He founded Consumer Edge Research in 2009 and acquired a majority stake in GuestMetrics in 2011. GuestMetrics provides business insight solutions to the hospitality industry. The company presents beverage and food companies with accurate data on consumer takeaway for their brands and their competitive set, including actual POS transaction data. Consumer Edge Research is a preeminent research boutique focused on global consumer industries. Prior to founding Consumer Edge Research, Bill was a managing director at Morgan Stanley, covering the global consumer products industry for over seven years. He also spent five years plus at Sanford Bernstein, where he was a partner and covered the beverage and tobacco sectors. He was also a project manager and 
Mary began her brewing career in 1992 with the Siebel Institute while completing her master of science degree at the University of Illinois, Chicago. After six years with Siebel, Mary joined Silliker Laboratories, where she performed further instruction in laboratory sciences in food microbiology and consulted and audited with the technical services group in multiple types of food plants on HACCP and sanitation programs, GMPs and quality. In 2001, Mary found her way back into brewing with Goose Island Beer Co. As the quality manager, she established base quality systems and HACCP plans for Soda. She also steered the brewery through third-party quality and organic certification audits. Mary is a beer judge in for the Great American Beer Festival and the World Beer Cup. She 
Paul Pisano leads the NBWA’s efforts in industry, legal and state governmental affairs and serves as primary liaison to state distributor associations and outside groups. Prior to joining NBWA, he served at the Department of Commerce, most recently as director of congressional affairs at the U.S. Census Bureau. He also spent six years working on Capitol Hill. Mr. Pisano holds a B.A. degree from Hampden-Sydney College and earned his J.D. from Catholic University’s Columbus School of Law. He is currently learning some hard lessons on quality control in his homebrewing experiences.
Jeremy has served as director of marketing at Boulevard Brewing Company since 2006, applying his 19 years of professional marketing and design experience to one of Kansas City’s most celebrated brands. Previously, he served in a variety of managerial, strategic and creative roles in the advertising industry and was a founding partner of CHRW Advertising in 1999. Jeremy received a B.S. from Pittsburg State and a M.A. in advertising design from Syracuse University. He serves on the board of directors of the AAF-KC Foundation, the Children’s Mercy Hospital Cancer Center Auxiliary, and the BA’s marketing and PR advisory committee.
Joey is the founder and CEO of Tampa’s Cigar City Brewing and co-founder of Cigar City Cider and Mead. A fifth generation Floridian and native of Tampa, Joey combined his passion for beer and local history in creating Cigar City Brewing.
Clay began his professional brewing career in 1999. After nearly a decade of brewing for large, corporate brewpubs in Indianapolis, Clay and his friend/fellow brewer Dave Colt decided to strike out on their own and create Sun King Brewing. The two brewers, along with business partners Omar Robinson, Andy Fagg and Steve Koers, began operations in July of 2009 and have grown to become the second largest brewery in Indiana. In 2012 Sun King produced over 15,000 barrels of beer, crossing the regional brewery threshold while selling and self-distributing nearly all of their beer in central Indiana.
Ashley, known amongst the craft beer community as The Beer Wench, is a self-proclaimed craft beer evangelist and social media maven on a mission to advance the craft beer industry through education, inspiration and advocacy. She is currently Director of Awesomeness at Bison Brewing in Berkeley, Calif. Ashley is a regular contributor for CraftBeer.com as well as the founding editor of DrinkWithTheWench.com, BeerMixology.com and IPADay.org.
Mary is the deputy administrator for the TTB and overseeing all headquarters and field operations functions associated with TTB’s tax collection and consumer protection responsibilities. Ryan brings nearly 20 years of experience in the enforcement of the Federal Alcohol Administration Act (FAA Act) and the Internal Revenue Code (IRC), through various perspectives, as counsel, supervisor and executive. Prior to her most recent position as assistant administrator (field operations), Ryan held the position of deputy chief counsel and, previously, legal supervisory and staff positions directed to FAA Act and IRC enforcement covering all aspects of TTB’s jurisdiction. Under her leadership, TTB established what is now the Intelligence Division (formerly Trade Analysis and Enforcement Division), which has established TTB’s position in the area of tobacco and alcohol 
Jim has worked at World Class Beverages to develop a warehousing and selling system for the craft category that fits with all size wholesalers. He has actively worked with the NBWA to improve opportunities for wholesalers to handle the category through electronic resources like the website and mobile app. He has also worked on the specialty beer wholesalers panel to develop a better relationship between brewers and wholesalers for the category. WCB was selected as the first Craft Distributor of the Year in 2007, and Schembre’s wholesaling experience goes back to his great uncle, who started in the beer wholesale business after Prohibition ended.
Dean has 15 years of experience in the beer and food ingredients industries. He attributes his passion for brewing to his childhood, growing up downwind from Leinenkugel’s Brewing Co. in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin. With a bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering from the University of Minnesota, Dean launched his career at Jacob Leinenkugel’s as a temp in keg filling where he learned all facets of the production brewing and received an IBD diploma. Dean transitioned to SAB Miller in corporate engineering after receiving an MBA from Keller Graduate School of Milwaukee. He later joined John I. Haas as general manager of the advanced products division. In 2011, Dean joined Briess as plant manager of its state-of-the-art 500-barrel brewhouse/extract facility.
Paul is a professor of plant sciences at North Dakota State University where he directs malting barley quality research and serves as the director of the Institute of Barley and Malt Sciences. Dr. Schwarz publishes and lectures extensively on barley and malt quality. His current research is primarily in the area of food safety and mycotoxins. He has previously has worked at the Kurth Malting Corp., A. Egger Bierbrauerei and was a visiting scientist at the Coors Brewing Co.
Melinda is a partner with the law firm of Burr & Forman LLP, a regional firm with offices in five Southeastern states. Melinda’s prior engagements include establishing start-up breweries, representing breweries and distributors regarding contract brewing arrangements, distribution agreements and trademark infringement matters. Recently, Melinda was recognized as a Rising Star by Alabama Super Lawyers. Melinda is also the founder of a Birmingham, Alabama craft beer education club for women and a member of the Pink Boots Society. She received her B.A. in psychology from Auburn University and received her J.D. from the University of Alabama School of Law.
Tony is founder and head brewer of national award-winning Pagosa Brewing & Grill. Their recent win for the Chili Verde Cerveza at the San Francisco Good Food Awards brings Pagosa Brewing’s medal count up to 50. Tony serves as a board member for the Colorado Brewers Guild and sits on the Brewer Association brewpub sub-committee. In Pagosa Springs, Tony is a charter rotarian member. His presentation credits include: NHC 2007, World Brewers Forum 2008, Great American Beer Festival panel discussions 2009 and 2011, BA Media Luncheon 2011, Colorado Entrepreneurial Conference 2011, Rocky Mountain Microbrewing Symposium 2012 and Craft Brewers Conference 2012. Pagosa Brewing is currently working on plans to expand to a 9,000 s.f. brewpub facility.
James is creator of the Crafty Pint, Australia’s leading guide to craft beer and also co-founder and festival director of the annual Good Beer Week festival. The Crafty Pint (craftypint.com) is a website that acts as both magazine and resource for the beer industry and drinkers alike. In Australia he discovered a burgeoning craft beer scene that was receiving little media coverage. Good Beer Week, which features more than 100 events across Melbourne and Victoria each year, was launched in 2011 to coincide with the annual Australian International Beer Awards. It has grown rapidly to become the country’s preeminent celebration of the Australian and international craft beer world. A journalist by trade, James writes about beer for a number of publications in Australia, including the 
Jonathan Smith worked at several Fortune 500 companies, including JP Morgan & Co., before becoming an Inc. 500 global entrepreneur. As the founder of ChiefOptimizer and a professional implementer of the Entrepreneurial Operating System® (EOS™), he helps entrepreneurs and their leadership teams simplify, clarify and achieve their vision. EOS helps companies get better at three things – vision, traction, and healthy. Jonathan believes that organizations using EOS find that everyone is on the same page with where the company is going and exactly how it’s going to get there. Company leaders work together as a more cohesive, functional team and the everyone in the organization makes progress each day towards achieving the vision.
Marc is a partner in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery LLP, based in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office. He is the leader of the firm’s Alcohol Regulatory & Distribution Group, where his practice focuses on regulatory, distribution and litigation issues facing the alcohol beverage industry.
Andy has been a Brewers Association staffer since 2008. As the association’s craft beer program coordinator, he promotes BA members through program benefits and CraftBeer.com. Andy is a Certified Cicerone® and BJCP beer judge. He lives in Arvada, Colorado where he homebrews and is an avid craft beer enthusiast.
Vernon holds a BSME and MBA with 27 years experience designing and implementing process automation and business software solutions to the beverage industry.
Gary received a Ph.D in biochemistry from the University of Leicester in the UK in 1984. Following a series of postdoctoral research positions in Canada and the U.S. and a teaching position at a liberal arts college in Indianapolis, he joined the Siebel Institute of Technology as head of laboratories in 1999 and the same post shortly thereafter with a company in Kentucky dealing with brewing and distilling analytical testing. In 2002, he formed Brewing and Distilling Analytical Services, LLC in Lexington. He participates in several ASBC collaboratives and oversees the testing of alcoholic beverages, publishes original research in brewing journals, teaches aspects of sensory evaluation of beer and has been an active Great American Beer Festival and World Beer Cup judge for the past 
A mechanical engineering graduate from Purdue University, Patrick has spent his 12-year career in various manufacturing environments and has built a proven record of improving operations through Lean Six Sigma-based techniques and team-based problem solving. After five years in the machining industry, Patrick joined Dr. Pepper Snapple Group and managed operations in the Chicago bottling plant and the Mott’s finished goods plant in Williamson, New York. With over a decade of homebrewing adventures, Patrick married his love for craft beer with his operational experience and took the role of director of brewery operations for Dogfish Head Craft Brewery. He has found a niche and a passion for the beverage industry that has taken him to his current role as the director of continuous improvement for 
Andrea Stanley started Valley Malt in 2010 with her husband Christian. They are committed to “bringing the malthouse back” to their community and revitalizing craft malting in New England.
Mitch Steele is the brewmaster for Stone Brewing Co. Since graduating from UC Davis in 1984 with a fermentation science degree, he has brewed at some of the largest and smallest breweries in the world. After starting on a 14 bbl system at the San Andreas Brewing Co., Mitch joined Anheuser-Busch in 1992, managing brewhouse and fermenting operations in three breweries, and managing new beer development as part of the Anheuser-Busch Specialty Brewing group in the mid-1990s.
An active homebrewer during his time with A-B, Mitch joined Stone Brewing Co. in 2006 and has overseen the brewing and packaging operations as the brewery has grown from a 48,000 bbl operation to 148,000 bbls in 2011. Mitch is an avid IPA fan, and is also the author 
Benj is president of Beer Marketer’s Insights, the leading trade publisher for the United States brewing industry since 1970. Benj joined BMI in 1980. He is publisher and editor of the flagship newsletter as well as several other online and print media publications. Beer Marketer’s Insights currently has six publications and two conferences, all about beer and/or beverages. Its newest addition, Craft Brew News, debuted in 2010. This email newsletter keeps readers up-to-date with the rapidly evolving and fast-growing craft segment. BMI hosts two annual conferences, a Spring Conference in May in Chicago and the Beer Insights Seminar in November in New York City. Beer Marketer’s Insights is often quoted in leading newspapers, magazines and other media.
Femke Sterckx was born in Herentals, Belgium, in 1984. In 2007 she graduated as a master in bioscience engineering, with specialization in food chemistry and technology, at the Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium. After this she stayed in Leuven and started a Ph.D. at the Centre for Malting and Brewing Science, where she investigated volatile monophenols in beer, their presence in beer, influence on beer flavor and origin from raw materials and wood aging. For this research she was granted a Ph.D. fellowship from the Institute for the Promotion of Innovation through Science and Technology in Flanders (IWT-Vlaanderen). In 2011, she obtained her doctoral degree after several international publications and the successful defense of her work. Since then she has been working with AB-InBev, first 
Todd has been at Lagunitas for four years after holding various senior roles in marketing, strategy and general management in his 14 years at Diageo in the U.S., Japan and South Africa. In addition, Todd ran the global marketing for Nokia’s lifestyle division, based in London. He holds an M.B.A from Dartmouth and a B.A. from Tufts University.
A partner with the global corporate consultancy of AnteaTM Group (“GCC”), John works with global clients to develop sustainable strategies that deliver superior financial return and competitive advantage. As the former director of corporate environmental affairs for Anheuser-Busch Companies, John has more than 30 years of beverage industry experience in areas such as compliance solutions, management systems implementation, supply chain foot-printing, climate change mitigation and sustainability strategy development. John also works with the Beverage Industry Environmental Roundtable (“BIER”). Formed in 2006, BIER is a technical coalition of 20 leading global beverage companies working together to advance environmental sustainability within the beverage sector, focusing on water stewardship, energy efficiency and climate change.
Matt has been actively involved in the environmental health and safety industry for the past 30 years. His experience includes OSHA and EPA training and compliance in areas such as hazard communication, confined space safety and personal protective equipment. Over the last decade, Matt has assisted brewing and restaurant operations nationwide with safety audits, customized compliance programs and safety team development assistance. He plans to open his own brewery in Nebraska in the coming months.
Erica Stocker is a professional advisor in the law firm of McDermott Will & Emery, based in the firm’s Washington, D.C., office. Erica focuses primarily on health care, including provider reimbursements, quality of care and patient safety. A member of the firm’s government strategies practice, Erica has extensive experience in government and politics, having spent nearly a decade on Capitol Hill. Her background is concentrated in health care, having closely followed every major piece of health legislation over the past decade—most recently the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010.
Steve is president of L.A.-based Custom Productions, Inc. and a producer, writer and director of over 200 commercials, web series, short films, music videos and TV shows. He wrote, produced and directed the award-winning MGM feature film Two Weeks. Steve’s current projects include creating and executive producing Discovery Channel’s brand new hit series, The Devils Ride, their highest-rated debut original show in 8 years (now in production on season 2), executive producing and directing $24/24, a Food Network series that premiered September 2012, creating new pilots for G4 and Food Network, web video for Microsoft, HTC and the new Anchor Steam website. His first book, How to Shoot Video that Doesn’t Suck, is out now from Workman Publishing. Steve also blogs about video at www.SteveStockman.com.
Chris has served as World Beer Cup and Great American Beer Festival competition manager since 2002 and as technical brewing projects Coordinator since 2010. He joined the Brewers Association full-time in 2011. Chris attended his first Great American Beer Festival as a new homebrewer in 1988, then as a brewer attendee in 1993. He began judging in 1995 and is a Siebel Institute alum, having attended quality control and sensory panel management courses. Chris serves on the Brewers Association Technical Committee, Draught Beer Quality working group and keg repatriation working group.
Sean graduated California State University Chico with a B.A. in psychology and a B.S. in biology. During his senior year he got a job in the QA lab at Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. After six years and lots of great, times he transplanted back to Southern California and took a position as microbiologist at Stone. He was then given a challenging opportunity to supervise and grow the QA department at Stone and continues to do so, making more great memories and friends along the way… as well as some great beers!
Emily Thomas, co-founder, owner and brewer at Santa Cruz Mountain Brewing, combines her passion for community and social work with innovative brewing and the organic food movement to create a well-loved business that produces award-winning, handcrafted organic ales. As a working owner/brewer, Emily is involved in every aspect of her business, day to day operations and most importantly, brewing wildly successful and unique ales that challenge peoples’ perceptions and definitions of organic ale.
Mark is the founder of Traphagen Law PLLC, where he counsels and represents clients in trademark, domain name, copyright and related areas of laws. His practice includes counseling, transactions and disputes. Mark represents large and emerging businesses, nonprofit organizations and individuals in the automotive, specialty chemical, food and beverage, Internet and digital media and sports and entertainment industries. His clients include a major music publisher, a major league sports owner and award-winning wine makers.
Kelly has been in the brewing industry since 1992, starting as a sample technician on the graveyard shift at Coors Brewing Company. After working her way through all of the laboratory jobs there, she worked as the plant microbiologist/QA lab manager for a year before making the leap to New Belgium in 2008. She is enjoying the challenge of a fast-paced, ever-changing environment and has also improved her ping pong and foosball skills! Kelly is active in ASBC and joined their Board of Directors last fall.
David is co-owner of Total Wine & More along with his brother, Robert. He has been involved in the alcohol beverage business since 1985, beginning with a large retail beer store. In 1991 David and Robert expanded the business when they opened two beer, wine & spirits stores in Delaware. Over the years, the brothers added not only greater selections of fine wine, beer and spirits, but also expanded into many other states. Today, Total Wine & More is the largest independent wine, beer & spirits retailer in the country, operating 89 stores in 15 states, with the objective of providing consumers the best selection at the lowest prices. David graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a bachelor’s degree from Furman University and a Master of 
Bruno is an industrial automation engineer and trained and certified master brewer and master maltster via Doemens Akademie in Munich. He is owner and founder of Malterie Frontenac since 2006.
Jenn started on the bottling line at New Belgium Brewing Company over 19 years ago. She became NBB’s first chief financial officer and later the chief operating officer. As director of sustainability her responsibilities include the sustainability management system, corporate responsibility reporting, greenhouse gas accounting, natural resource management, legislative advocacy and philanthropy. As director of strategic development, Jenn oversees New Belgium’s strategic planning process, public/private partnerships and property development—including finding and securing the home of NBB’s first site outside of Colorado in Asheville, North Carolina. Jenn’s a collaborator and a connector, creating opportunities to expand New Belgium’s business role model practices both within and without the brewery.
Wayne is the brewmaster for Cigar City Brewing in Tampa, Florida, which has grown from a start-up to a regional brewery in four years time. He has spent the last 15 years brewing beer commercially for brewpubs and production breweries. He has won numerous awards at the Great American Beer Festival, World Beer Cup and other regional, national and international competitions.
Co-founder and brewmaster at Texas start-up Karbach Brewing Company, Eric is a 25-year veteran of the craft brewing industry. A graduate of the Technical University of Munich at Weihenstephan, he has played a major role in the growth and development of several award winning breweries/distilleries. Eric co-authored books and articles on brewing and has presented at industry conferences in the U.S. and abroad. He has also been a judge at the World Beer Cup and Great American Beer Festival.
Michael has spent over 15 years working in conservation roles at non-profits and universities, with a focus on sustainable forestry, land conservation, green building and conservation leadership. In particular, he recently held a senior position at The Wilderness Society, focused on public-lands advocacy and served as the vice president of brand management for the Forest Stewardship Council, where he advanced the adoption of independent forest-certification and product labeling programs. He holds a Ph.D. in forest policy from Penn State and earned a B.S. in environmental studies and an M.S. in forest resources management from SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry in Syracuse.
Jim left the sunny coast of Southern California in 1994 to start his brewing career and make a better life for his family. After building (and closing) Fleetside Brewing in Greeley, CO and a 13 year stint at Odell brewing (growing with them from 16,000 bbls a year in 1997 to 42,000 in 2009) he chose to speed things up a bit, embrace a new challenge and move to Oskar Blues in 2010. Joining the production leadership team with brewer Dave Chichura and Beer Traffic Control Freak Jeremy Rudolf, Jim helped bring the little brewery that can(s) from 29,000 bbls production in 2009 to 85,000 bbls in 2012 in Longmont, CO. If that’s not enough, Jim also played a key role in outfitting and commissioning 
Erin is public relations manager at Flying Dog Brewery. She manages Flying Dog’s website, email communication and social media channels, along with media relations, copywriting and strategic planning. In the past three years, Erin has propelled Flying Dog to become one of the most influential craft breweries on both Facebook and Twitter and continues to look to new, innovative ways to connect with partners and consumers.
Bruce is a founding brother of Williams Brothers Brewing in Alloa, Scotland. He reintroduced the legendary Heather Ale back into Scottish society in 1987 and now produces a range of beers flavored with local and unique ingredients as well as a range of contemporary ales for the domestic and export markets.
Bump has spent 33 years working in the CPG industry with retailers, distributors, brewers, importers and Wall Street across a multitude of beverage categories and has been published in multiple industry trade magazines and national newspapers. Bump’s work and analyses provide keen insights on retailer strategies and consumer purchase behaviors and he is a long-time veteran of the CBC, having presented at this event for nearly 10 years.
With over 25 years in the industry, and 15 years with Business Finance Group, Wayne is responsible for working with the lending community, small business owners and other partners within the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. While working with Business Finance Group, he has personally assisted over 450 small businesses with projects totaling over $800 million. Prior to joining Business Finance Group, Wayne spent 10 years in commercial lending and has worked in SBA lending for most of his career. Wayne is chair of the lenders quality circle steering committee for the U.S. Small Business Administration Washington Metropolitan Area District Office, and is former chapter president and national award winner with the American Institute of Banking. In 2009, Wayne was recognized by the Washington Metropolitan Area 
Sebastian is the director of brewing operations at Natty Greene’s Brewing Company, a 13,000 bbl microbrewery in Greensboro, Noth Carolina. Born and raised in Germany, he earned his certification as a brewer and maltster at the Ayinger Brewery outside of Munich in 1999. Sebastian lives with his wife and their twins in Burlington, North Carolina.
Kevin received his undergraduate degree in biomedical engineering from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. After a brief career as a middle school science teacher, he decided to pursue a brewing education through the University of California-Davis Master Brewer program. In 2009, Kevin earned the J.S. Ford Award for the highest score worldwide on the Diploma in Brewing exam administered by the Institute of Brewing and Distilling. That summer, he accepted a position at Hangar 24 Craft Brewery in Redlands, California and was promoted to head brewer shortly there after.
Chad is the owner and brewer of Crooked Stave Artisan Beer Project located in Denver, Colorado. He obtained a B.Sc. in horticulture science before going on to study viticulture and oenology in New Zealand. He then switched his focus to the brewing industry, concentrating on various microorganisms present during barrel aging of sour beer. In 2010 Chad completed his master’s thesis, Primary Fermentation Characteristics of Brettanomyces Yeast Species and Their Use in the Brewing Industry, and was awarded a master of science in brewing and distilling from Heriot-Watt University and the International Centre for Brewing and Distilling in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Jamil Zainasheff is an award-winning homebrewer, author, beer judge, and host of “The Jamil Show” and “Brew Strong” shows on The Brewing Network. A “stylish” guy, Jamil has brewed every style of beer described in the Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP) Style Guidelines. He has co-authored two books, Brewing Classic Styles (Brewers Publications, 2007) and Yeast: The Practical Guide to Beer Fermentation (Brewers Publications, 2010). Jamil most recently opened Heretic Brewing Company, a 30-barrel brewery in the East Bay region of California’s San Francisco Bay area.