Those of you who peek in the brewery now and then may have noticed Jeff manning the tanks.  He’s the quieter guy who actually makes a lot of the beer while I’m doing things like writing blog posts.  If you’ve been to the pub in the last couple of weeks you’ve probably noticed a couple of other guys running around in there instead of Jeff.  That’s because we’ve given Jeff a one month leave of absense to attend the Siebel Institute in Chicago.  It won’t be easy for me to work without him for a month, but Iron Hill is dedicated to the education of its brewers and we do everything we can to encourage development.  All of our head brewers have been to either Siebel or the American Brewer’s Guild.  Iron Hill also sends many of its head brewers to the Craft Brewer’s Conference every year and shares the cost for assistant brewers who want to attend.  So when Jeff enrolled himself and asked for the time off to attend, I certainly couldn’t say no.  We’ll be getting updates here and there from Jeff about his experience in Chicago.  His first is below.

Cheers,

Chris