I used to be an aimless wanderer. I went to college as a Math Education major, I graduated with a B.A. in Performing Arts and have been working in the IT department ever since. Then, this one magical Christmas, my mother bought me a homebrew kit and I realized this amazing love of making beer. I like to tell people that I like making beer more than I like drinking it. It's not a lie - the creative process behind making a truly terrific and singular beer is an intoxicating (heh!) mixture of science and art.
After years of telling people that I was going to start my own brewery, I decided to start working toward it and did so by getting into the industry in the only way I knew how: blogging. In March of 2009 I started a blog called Top Fermented and began writing. Since then, I’ve also gotten involved in the North Carolina Brewers Guild, doing their website and writing for them. At the same time, I started working alongside another startup brewer in a national re-launch of the site Know Your Brewer. With all of this geekery under my belt, I spoke on a panel at the Craft Brewers Conference entitled “Storytelling 2.0: Social Media is a Conversation” giving professional breweries advice on how to use social media to reach their customer base.
Now, I’ve decided that it is time to realize my dreams of brewing professionally and have started Mystery Brewing Company. Join me! There’s beer where I’m going.
