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Mad Squirrel’s biggest-selling brand is $umo – an American pale ale at 4.7% ABV and 34 IBU
can nd employment as an opera- tor-level brewer or maltster. After completing his apprentice- ship, Jeremy completed the Master of Brewing and Malting course at Doemens Academy in Munich. He then left Germany for the delights of En eld and AB InBev’s Camden Town Brewery where he was Brewing Manager and worked on the team that commissioned and implemented the new Krones Steineker brewery. He chose England for a career because although he would have been assured a sound career path in Germany,
German brewing apprenticeships are three years in length, are based at one or more breweries and involve full-time employment at the brewer(y)ies with three months of classroom brewing study per year. In Jeremy’s case at Fritz Henßler college in Dortmund. Over the course of the German brewing apprenticeship, the student experiences each area of brewing oper- ations – from brewhouse to packaging as well as maltings and laboratory exposure – with practical and written exams covering each element of train- ing. At the end of the apprenticeship he/she is given the title ‘Brewer’ and
and ooring so posh it costs more than most brewhouses under 50hL. It has also set out to brew only lagers. Another element which sets Utopian apart from your average new brewery is the head brewer being a Doemens Academy-quali ed brewmaster. As his name suggests Jeremy Swainson is not a 5 th generation Bavarian but is originally from Canada. He developed a love for German beer while on a one-year exchange pro- gramme in Germany, so after school he enrolled on the German brewing and malting apprenticeship working at Bolten Brauerie in Korschenbroich.
The Utopian kettle
The Utopian set-up
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