My friends will be the first to tell you that I have always been a bit of a beer snob, but until I met Skip, I was a home-brewing virgin. As a college student, I majored in Chemistry, and the exact science of brewing beer immediately felt at home to me. I was obsessed with documenting the systems and processes needed for us to brew high-quality, repeatable recipes. As a result, my home basement became home-brewing headquarters for several years, where we invented recipes and brewed most weekends until demand outgrew supply, and we finally built Jackass Brewing Company.
After a 25+ year career as a dentist, you can imagine that the appeal of making great beer was undeniable, and I retired from practice in 2021. I loved dentistry, but nothing compares to the smiles I can bring to people’s faces with a delicious beer.