FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – December 2024: From an impressive group of gifted candidates, Aaron Brussat of Declare 52 Brewing (Eugene, OR) has been named recipient of the 2024 American Brewers Guild scholarship. Aaron will likely be attending ABG’s Intensive Brewing Science & Engineering (IBS&E) course that runs from January to June 2025. The Intensive Brewing Science & Engineering course is a 22-week distance training program with a last week of residential instruction in Middlebury, VT. The course covers all the basics of beer manufacturing and high quality assurance with a particular emphasis on sensible points.
Aaron’s expertise from effectively over a decade within the homebrewing group and craft beer business has given him a broad perspective on the manufacturing and delight of beer. He started as a homebrewer, and have become a Nationwide rank BJCP decide and Licensed Cicerone. He’s nonetheless an energetic member of the Cascade Brewers Society. Aaron labored at Falling Sky Fermentation Provide Store, studying components and serving to brewers start their journey. Aaron spent a few years at The Bier Stein Bottleshop & Pub, the place he developed his position as Beer Steward. Past customer support and employees training, he emceed beer pairing dinners, developed the “Beer Flight College” training program, did group outreach, and helped set up the Bier Stein Invitational Brew Fest. Aaron can be a gifted beer author, contributing for a few years to revered native and nationwide print publications, in addition to on-line beer information websites. His newer entry into skilled brewing began at Plank City Brewing, the place he was a fast examine given his deep background. In 2024, Aaron was recruited over to Declare 52 Brewing as Head of Brewing Innovation, with a broad set of brewery obligations. This was his impetus to use for the scholarship.
The Choice Committee definitely noticed in Aaron a depth of expertise and expertise, noting “his lengthy observe document of advocacy for brewing and his dedication to additional the objectives of the inspiration made him the apparent selection. All of the extra spectacular given the caliber of the opposite candidates.” Aaron brings a singular perspective with such a breadth of expertise, as one other committee member acknowledged “he has lengthy been shopper dealing with, speaking to homebrewers and beer lovers and extra importantly listening to them. He is likely one of the extra dialed-in candidates we’ve seen in a few years.”
One of the spectacular elements of Aaron’s journey is that he has had a lot assist and assist alongside the best way. “In a really humble vogue, he acknowledges the great assist others have bestowed alongside the best way which provides him a deeply private need and dedication to supporting others who’re starting their journey and to persevering with to offer again to his group.” Echoing that sentiment, one other Choice Committee member added “Aaron exhibits immense respect and dedication to the Eugene and Oregon beer communities and the legacy of Glen that makes him a implausible selection for this 12 months’s ABG scholarship.” “The candidate pool was spectacular however Aaron’s dedication to craft beer and brewing and his various contributions to his beer communities helped him rise to the highest.” All of us congratulate Aaron on the following step in his profession and one that may deliver the science and technical basic to his clear ardour and creativity in brewing.
The American Brewers Guild is a premier faculty for the craft brewing business devoted to offering a complete studying expertise that focuses on the technical, scientific, and operational issues and points that brewers face in a craft brewing surroundings. We provide our deepest gratitude to American Brewers Guild for its long-standing and persevering with assist for the Basis’s brewing training scholarship program.
Be a part of us in thanking the Choice Committee of Jamie Floyd (Ninkasi Brewing), Lisa Morrison (Belmont Station Bottle Store & Biercafé), Steve Parkes (American Brewers Guild), Dan Russo (Oakshire Brewing), and Brett Thomas (Sunriver Brewing) who got the troublesome resolution of choosing a single recipient from a deep and gifted group of deserving candidates.
A particular because of Yakima Chief Hops whose spectacularly profitable Falconer’s Flight® hop mix not solely has vastly unfold the phrase about brewing training but in addition supplied the required long-term monetary assist to assist underwrite our brewing scholarship program.
