Craft Beer Professionals

In this conversation we will hear from several of your peers discussing the past year, challenges, surprises, strategies for success, and predictions moving forward.  This conversation features:  Carmone Macfarlane - Phoenix Brewing Company Jason Snyder - Peak Drift Brewing Company Michael Crowell - Petrichor Brewing Pola Girard Galie - Lower Forge Brewing Company  www. CraftBeerPro...

CBP Stories showcase individual members who have an inspiring story to tell. Marty Nachel was born and raised in the Chicago area. His love for quality beer can be traced back to a long weekender to Toronto and an unplanned tour of the Molson brewery in 1982. He became a member of the BJCP in 1986, one of the first 70 people in North America and the 1st in the state of Illinois. He has since writt...

In this conversation we will hear from several of your peers discussing the past year, challenges, surprises, strategies for success, and predictions moving forward. This conversation features: Erik Coleman - Beer by Coleman Josh Pringle - CO2 Meter Kevin Weaver - Brewmation Scott Schmidt - Promote the Brew www. CraftBeerProfessionals.org

CBP Stories showcase individual members who have an inspiring story to tell. M. David Gonzalez (DG) has been a professional brewer since 1996 and attended the prestigious Siebel Institute of Technology in 1997. He has been in a variety of situations from small brewpubs and breweries, to larger production facilities, to spending more than a decade with a corporate brewpub chain as a Head Brewer, an...

This conversation features: AJ Head - Safe Bars Amy Leesa - Fisher Phillips Law Firm (focus on Employment Law in the brewery space) Kyle Rheiner - Arthur Hall (Craft Beverage Insurance) www. CraftBeerProfessionals.org

CBP Stories showcase individual members who have an inspiring story to tell. Gloria has been in the craft beer industry for over ten years in a variety of capacities – writer, brand ambassador, sales representative, bartender and founder of the Syracuse Women of Craft Beer. A former university professor, she changed careers from higher education to pursue her beer journey. Her writing started with...

White Labs CEO Chris White is joining us to share a first look at the future of yeast with Craft Beer Professionals. The team at White Labs has been hard at work behind the scenes, innovating to bring brewers the most superior yeast on the planet. Today is an exciting moment for all of us at White Labs. Our entire team prides itself on our constant push to innovate and improve, and in doing so we...

This conversation features: Betsi Good - Four Corners Brewing Company James Moriarty - Urban Brew Labs Laura Dierks - Interboro NYC Nancy Trigg - Arryved Randy Jensen and Sindre Ingebrigtsen - Molo Brew www. CraftBeerProfessionals.org

This conversation features: Collean Laney - Three Notch'd Brewing Company Katie Nierling - Ska Street Brewstillery Muriah Kilmer - Freedom's Edge Brewing Tiare Austin - Walking Stick Brewing www. CraftBeerProfessionals.org

CBP Stories showcase individual members who have an inspiring story to tell. With 25+ years in the craft beer industry, before working for a few of the largest breweries in the world, George Graham represented a few of the pioneers in Portland, Oregon - Bridgeport, Saxer, Oregon Ales (Boston Beer), Thomas Kemper, and Rogue to name a few. Finishing his career at a community-inspired small-batch bre...

CBP Stories showcase individual members who have an inspiring story to tell. Daniel Carey operates the New Glarus Brewing Company in Wisconsin along with his business partner and wife, Deb, as well as two daughters and grandchildren. He shoveled out his first mash tun in 1979 at the age of 18 while earning a Bachelor’s Degree in Food Science at University of California Davis. Dan was Valedictorian...

CBP Stories showcase individual members who have an inspiring story to tell. Stephanie is an Atlanta-based writer who focuses on stories of diversity and inclusion in the beer industry. In 2020, she was a recipient of the Diversity in Beer Writing Grant from the North American Guild of Beer Writers, and this year, she was recognized in Imbibe's 75 people to watch. Stephanie is also the founder of...

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

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...

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, aft...

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 present...

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 eve...

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...

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

For details on our Spring Virtual Conference please visit http://spring2021.craftbeerprofessionals.org This conversation features: Jason Sleeman - United Community Bank | Craft Beverage Lending JoAnne Carilli-Stevenson - White Labs Joel Frieders - Hope for the Day Julie Rhodes - Not Your Hobby Marketing Solutions Rachel Kesley - Arryved www. CraftBeerProfessionals.org

This conversation features: Brian Avery - Bravery Brewing Elizabeth Jacobs - Legacy Ale Works Matthew Dahm - Mastry's Brewing Company www. CraftBeerProfessionals.org