Brewing Related Professions (panel discussion)

Featuring Mike "Tasty" McDole (The Brewing Network), Chip Walton (Chop & Brew podcast) and Adam Boyd (Good Brews radio show).

Don't want to open a brewery but want to be in the Craft Beer Scene? These people have done it! Come find out how it was done and get inspired to brew yourself a new career!

Mike “Tasty” McDole is a national award-winning homebrewer and craft beer enthusiast. His homebrewing focus is on recipe development and process repeatability. His recipes have been brewed around the world. He’s active in the Northern California craft beer scene where he’s familiar to craft beer brewers, distributors, bar owners, bar staff and drinkers. Tasty is regularly heard on the Brewing Network’s Session and Jamil shows.

AV nerd and social media addict meets beer geek and foodie, Chip Walton is a Certified Beer Judge and in 2015 was elected to the American Homebrewers Association Governing Committee. He has been homebrewing for nearly 10 years and lives in Saint Paul, MN. Chip splits his time between a day job at American Public Media managing the website for The Splendid Table radio show/podcast, and producing his popular homebrewing/cooking webshow Chop & Brew at home. When he can, Chip also picks up freelance gigs producing digital print and video content, and consulting small businesses on social media strategy. He formerly worked for Northern Brewer Homebrew Supply shooting and producing instructional videos and the online webcast Brewing TV.

Adam Boyd is an award-winning homebrewer, assistant brewer at Iron Goat Brewing, and host of "Good Brews" on KYRS Community Radio. If there is something in this world that interests him more than beer, he has yet to find it; Boyd spends his non-beer time sleeping... and dreaming of beer.