As the story goes, Tall Guy Brewing has been a dream of mine since college.
I first became interested in beermaking as a microbiology student at Cal Poly, when I came across homebrewing in a textbook. I’d always been fascinated with microbes, and I liked drinking beer, but I’d never thought much about the production of it. I became intrigued. Growing up, my dad had brewed beer in our kitchen, so I collected his old equipment and started brewing myself, sharing my results with my appreciative dorm buddies.
After graduation, following my new-found passion, I headed to LA to take a quality control position at Anheuser-Busch. Not completely feeling the freeway life to be a great fit for me, I thought back to a call three months earlier, when I’d been offered a brewing apprentice job. Stuck in that famous LA traffic – a minimum-wage, six-month position, in a little brewery way up the northern California coast, suddenly sounded interesting.