Craft Beer Professionals

This conversation features:  Jacob Hoover - White Labs  Jean van Damme - ESTER.ai  Jon Dispenza - Untappd Podcast  Laura Lodge - Customized Craft Beer Programs/Big Beers, Belgians & Barleywines Festival  www.CraftBeerProfessionals.org

CBP Stories showcase individual members who have an inspiring story to tell. Marty Jones is a longtime award-winning beer journalist and publicist/promoter/idea man in the craft beer trade. In addition to being dubbed “the man who made canned beer cool” (for his role as frontman and co-founder of the Oskar Blues “Canned Beer Apocalypse”), Jones has been called “the Bill Veeck of craft beer” and “a threat to the future of craft beer.” He thinks alcoholic beverage should be stricken from the beer lexicon and humor is the essential missing ingredient in the trade. Jones writes and plays music on the side and his deep catalog of beer-minded songs has earned him the title of “the bard of beer songs.” He lives in Denver, CO. www.CraftBeerProfessionals.org

CBP Stories showcase individual members who have an inspiring story to tell. Cole Hackbarth is the Director of Brewing Operations at Rhinegeist Brewery in Cincinnati Ohio. Rhinegeist is seven years old and has grown to over 100,000bbls/yr of beer and cider across its eight state footprint. Before joining Rhinegeist, Cole worked for several breweries including Golden Road and Full Sail Brewing, after receiving a B.S. in Fermentation Science from Oregon State University. www.CraftBeerProfessionals.org

1:4 people have a disability. And guess what? Some of them like beer. Some of them want to hang out with their friends in a comfortable space. ALL of them are consumers. Is your taproom accessible? Have you heard of Universal Design? Why should you care? Because taprooms by nature are community hubs. And community hubs should do their part in making sure they are welcoming to EVERYONE. The presentation will share: Our family's brewery and why we built it to begin with What is Universal Design and how it benefits everyone A tour of our brewery Examples of what they can do to build equity and inclusion in their brewery www.CraftBeerProfessionals.org

CBP Stories showcase individual members who have an inspiring story to tell. During his 32 years at MillerCoors, Keith Villa created this cloudy, unfiltered Belgian-style beer, first brewed at the 10-barrel Sandlot Brewery inside Denver’s Coors Field, that would go on to become the number one craft beer in America, helped in part by the Valencia orange slice Keith suggested bartenders place on every rim. Having retired from Coors in 2018, Keith, along with his wife Jodi, began focusing on the next stage in their careers – development of a craft beer infused with THC, a key psychoactive chemical from cannabis plants that creates pleasurable sensations. In December 2018, the Villa’s CERIA (rhymes with “area”) Brewing Company launched its first THC-infused non-alcohol brew in Colorado. Since then, CERIA has expanded throughout Colorado and plans are to expand to other states where the use of recreational marijuana is legal. Having successfully grown CERIA’s THC-infused beer brand, Keith decided in 2020 to also offer his non-alcoholic beers without THC. www.CraftBeerProfessionals.org

This conversation features: Brian Boak - Brewers Roundtable Brittany Burke - Untappd Day Bracey - Barrel & Flow Fest Kevin Mardorf - BeerFests.com Matthew Leff - Rhizome Productions www.CraftBeerProfessionals.org

CBP Stories showcase individual members who have an inspiring story to tell. Brian was born with a homebrewing father, within blocks of a brewery. He did a little 'research' in his younger days, and in college spent some time in London, living in an apartment with a pub on the ground floor. He spent a semester sampling English, Scottish, Irish, German, and Belgian beers and upon returning back to his college town, macro light lagers just no longer satisfied my newfound appreciation of... actual flavor. He began homebrewing and did so for almost thirty years. The architecture/development company he spent much of his professional career with was adversely impacted by the struggles of the economy in 2007, and he needed to reinvent his life and livelihood. With encouragement from family and lots of friends, the idea of Friendship Brewing Company was launched. He identified a century old building in his home neighborhood and spent about four years renovating the property, again - with friends. They then staffed the brewery with.... friends. Four years later everything they do is fueled by friendships; old friends, new friends, and brew friends. www.CraftBeerProfessionals.org

This conversation features: Kelly Weiss - Perkiomen Valley Brewery Max Finnance - Artisanal Brewing Ventures Nick Bonadies - Belleflower Brewing Company Sofia Barbaresco - New York State Brewers Association www.CraftBeerProfessionals.org

This conversation features: Keke Gibb - former Boulevard Brewing Company Tara Nurin - Writer, Reporter, Educator, Author of the upcoming "A Woman's Place Is in the Brewhouse: A Forgotten History of Alewives, Brewsters, Witches, and CEOs" www.CraftBeerProfessionals.org

This conversation features: Alison Wisneski - Lady Justice Brewing Andrew Coplon - Craft Beer Professionals/Secret Hopper Jamaar Valentine - NoDa Brewing Company Katie Nierling - Ska Street BrewStillery Mo Wark - Somos Destinations www.CraftBeerProfessionals.org