Forgive me if this is under the wrong section ( first post from a long time lurker).
Background Info:
My province has experienced a craft beer boom over the past 8 years. Now home to 50+ craft breweries and brew pubs of various sizes.
The bulk of of these are owner/brewer and or operate on a skeleton sized crew with many employees doing double duty ( packaging tech is also the taproom bartender, assistant brewer also delivers kegs etc.) and seem reluctant to hire those with previous brewery experience.
About Me:
Now here is the question:
What should be my next step forward? Test new waters in a different market? Attend Brew School ( Siebel or others) ?
Combination of the two?
Thanks for reading.
R
Background Info:
My province has experienced a craft beer boom over the past 8 years. Now home to 50+ craft breweries and brew pubs of various sizes.
- 2 Regional Sized
- 4-6 provincial sized with aspirations of becoming regional
- 5 brewpubs
- 30+ of between nano to sub 20bbl operations.
The bulk of of these are owner/brewer and or operate on a skeleton sized crew with many employees doing double duty ( packaging tech is also the taproom bartender, assistant brewer also delivers kegs etc.) and seem reluctant to hire those with previous brewery experience.
About Me:
- Ive been in and around this industry for 4 years ( 1.5 as a paid package/ cellar tech who mostly made and filled boxes and 2.5 a part time volunteer brewers assistant and cellar person where I learned a lot but zero brew deck time.
- Left previous job as I saw no path way off the packaging line and no forward career growth planning.
- Lots of self study in brewing science and theory but no commercial brewing experience.
- Lots of experience in cellar and packaging ( love cellar work but 40+ hours of filling boxes is mind numbing but still would help when needed.)
- No formal brewing education. But hoped that with the right brewery position i could apply for Siebel Condensed or American Brewer's Guild Distance Ed. and learn as I get paid.
- Struggling to find a place where I can learn and grow eventually into a professional brewer.
Now here is the question:
What should be my next step forward? Test new waters in a different market? Attend Brew School ( Siebel or others) ?
Combination of the two?
Thanks for reading.
R
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