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California, United States

California, United States

California

• Building and maintaining relationships in breweries and other alcohol and food production facilities • Using CRM, Quickbooks, and Outlook to track sales, monitor inventory, and manage new customers.• Employ various sales techniques to increase sales to current customers• Advise breweries to meet local, county, and state rules and regulations • Perform chemical audits for customers to ensure Good Brewing/Manufacturing Practices• Help brewers of all sizes and experience develop GBP/GMPs using a wide variety of Loeffler products• Manage project buildouts, budgets, and installations of hazardous material systems

Lincoln, Ca

• Refurbish and rebuild a 15 bbl Bohemian 2 vessel brewhouse• Recipe development with a focus on repeatability and expansion• Track and market trends to allocate resources with short lead time• Manage State and Federal alcohol permitting and reporting• Oversee training of new employees, QA/QC, and marketing; including safety and code compliance • Microsoft Excel and Outlook to track budget, COGS, and EBITDA

Rocklin, Ca

• Recipe development with a focus on specialty, high end, and one-off beers• Manage traditional brewing and fermentation techniques for clean beers • Manage wild years and sour fermentation, barrel ageing, and serving• Short lead time with all beer served in house• Manage intern program • Microsoft Excel and Outlook

Berkeley, California

Shift production brewer. Experienced cleaning, sanitizing, de-aerating and operating a 30 square meter Spadoni horizontal leaf DE filter, Rosesale 3 micron sock filter, Pall 0.45 micron trap filters and 3M lenticular filter. Also using proper techniques to clean, sanitize and de-aerate a 333 bpm/48 head Krones Variojet and Mecafill combo rinser, filler, and crowner and 5 head KegTechnik keg filler to reach dissolved oxygen specifications below 10 ppb in bottles and 30 ppb on kegs. Also experienced with Hartness International drop packer on 12 packs or 24 packs 4x6 or loose. Maintains paperwork from maturation tanks through filtration, bright tanks, bottle filler or keg racket and warehouse additions.

Rohnert Park, California

Part time production brewer assisting with all aspects of mash production as well as general cleaning, preparation, and set ups for the stills.

Shift production brewer. Responsibilities start at receiving malted barley/wheat and end at production ready beer in bright tanks. Works well with other brewers, lead brewer, head brewer, and QA dept to ensure highest quality of product. Production of 100,000-160,000 beer barrels a year. On a daily basis used 4 roller mill, 4 vessel 150HL Stieneker brewhouse, yeast collect and pitching tanks, 310 bbl fermenters, 250 bbl bright tanks, 15 square meter Padovan horizontal leaf DE filter, transfer/filter pumps, positive displacement/low sheer pumps, and 2 CIP systems. Had QA knowledge of testing pH, specific gravity, and apparent extract, Standard Reference Method and Bitterness Units. Experience on a 2 vessel 15 bbl brewhouse for test batches.

Berkeley, Ca

Supervise four shift brewers in all aspects of the brewing process: 3300 bbls of weekly wort production, beer transfers, DE filtrations, yeast collection, lab work, soda production, and scheduled cleaning and maintenance. Maintain clean and healthy supply of ale and lager yeast, conducting new propagations every ten generations. Monitor and assure water quality for brewing water. Assist Head Brewer in raw ingredients selection, recipe modification, new product development, staff hiring, record keeping, and work scheduling. Train new brewers. Member of sensory analysis tasting panel.Continuous Improvement5S MethodologyLean ManufacturingHACCP CertifiedAIB Audit Certified

San Ramon, California

San Ramon, California