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Fort Collins, CO, US

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

Boulder, CO

• Facilitate all hot-side brewing operations in coordination with the cellar and lab from transfer and milling of grain to knockout of wort and yeast pitch on an automated, Krones brewing system with a 106 hl kettle-full.
• Perform daily lab measurements of viability, cell counts, gravity, and pH of completed knockout samples.
• Tasked with developing protocol for hotside brewing water treatment. Organized and gave a presentation to production managers regarding principles of water chemistry related to our own process and subsequently.
• Extensive shadowing of automated, Handtmann cellar including time spent working on a centrifuge, plate and frame filter, pasteurizer, and learning cold side ingredient addition protocol (dry hops, adjuncts, etc.) and.
• Extensive shadowing of QA/QC lab involving performing dailies using density meters, cellometer, and alcolyzer as well as VDK and IBU testing with a spectrophotometer, media preparation, autoclaving, microfiltration.

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

• Assist in all hot-side brewing processes including milling grain, mashing, lautering, sparging, boiling, and knockout of wort into the fermenter.
• Assist in all cellaring processes including draining, fining, cold crashing, dry-hopping, and addition of ingredients to fermenters as well as transfers from fermenter to maturation tank.
• Perform carbonation, kegging, and shrink-wrapping of bright beer for cold storage and consumption.
• Regularly monitored important brewing, fermentation, cellaring, and packaging parameters including measuring gravities, temperatures, process times, carbonation levels, and sensory characteristics of product from.
• Follow all safety protocol including equipment and chemical usage.
• Responsible for CIP and SIP of mash mixer, lauter tun, boiling kettle, fermenters, and bright tanks as well as cleaned outside of each vessel. Also responsible for maintaining an overall clean, organized work area.

Loveland, Colorado

• Assist with all brewing processes on both 1 and 10-barrel systems from milling of grain until knockout and subsequent cleaning of brewhouse.
• Clean, sanitize, pressurize, and fill kegs from bright tanks.
• Serve and educate customers about beer made on-site at the brewery as well as train new employees in the taproom.

Longmont, Colorado

• Prepare hops, brewing salts, and handle the milling of all grain to be mashed.
• Facilitate CIP/SIP on fermenter lines and brewhouse heat exchanger.
• Assist brewer on deck with tasks such as adding ingredients to boil, cleaning the whirlpool and mash tun vessels, and assisting in the CIP/SIP cycles of the brewhouse.

Fort Collins, Colorado

• Serve and educate customers about beer made on-site at the brewery.
• Part time internship in quality control/assurance lab consisting of cleaning and sanitizing of lab equipment, preparation of DME for yeast propagation, and gram staining a variety of media colonies. ]
• Assist brewers on canning days using Cask Brewing System.

Fort Collins, Colorado Area

• Call alumni and friends of the university seeking donations for programs throughout the university.
• Mentor new callers on how to effectively communicate with alumni and gain support.

Bachelor'S Degree, Fermentation Science & Technology, Cumulative 3.54 Gpa

Learning the science and commercial processes of fermentation with a focus in brewing. Field of study incorporates chemistry.

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