Mastering the art of brewing across the pond

Albuquerque native Will Brennand is just a few months shy of his masters degree. This is not a typical masters degree, or else why would we be writing about it? Will is majoring in brewing in a project at the University of Nottingham. Yes, as in Nottingham, England, U.K.

A former assistant brewer at Red Door, Will met with me during a break from his studies abroad to talk about the unique program.

“It’s a dissertation project,” he said. “It’s a little bit different compared to your traditional academic project. The team — composed of myself as lead brewer; Will Gelder, an Englishman in charge of marketing and sales; and Stefano Occhi, an Italian, who’s in charge of project management and making sure we all hit our deadlines and quality assurance, making sure our product is where we actually want it to be — we created Zerogravity Brewing as a project, not to be confused with

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