Landed sweet internship at brewery

[smokinghole]

I'm a biotech student at Harrisburg University (real new small school) and I am required to get an internship for graduation. Well I decided that due to my hobby of home brewing I would angle for a internship at a brewery. I found out at the beginning of this semester that Troegs would be closing their intern position for lab work due to them moving. Luckily though a local brewpub with multiple locations was looking to move further with quality control.

I just had the meeting with the brewery manger and my internship advisor wednesday. I'll be starting in January and will be getting literature to digest before starting. I'm pretty psyched and thought you guys might get a kick hearing about another HBer maybe going into the professional brewing world. Ooh and the brewery is Appalachian Brewing Company with the main brewery being in Harrisburg, PA. :rockin:

 

[Prime]

Congrats. Hope you enjoy it.

 

[Pappers_]

Very cool, congratulations. Do you hope to work in a brewery after graduation, as a vocation?

 

[jackers252]

Sweet! My mom lives in Harrisburg (Enola actually). Good luck!

 

[smokinghole]

Do you hope to work in a brewery after graduation, as a vocation?

Its seriously a possibility. Just on the lab side at least to start out obviously but who knows. I could work at a brewery for a while to begin and move on to other places with need for contamination testing and control.

 

[gungadin]

Congrats. I actually applied to a part-time position there yesterday... maybe your luck will rub off on me

 

[SauceBoss]

awesome man im jealous! Enjoy and best of luck!

 

[PirateBrewer]

Congrats! Learn as much as you can! I can't begin to tell you how many times companies were impressed by how many internships I did before I actually graduated!

 

[GilaMinumBeer]

Might wanna study on how to spell manager before you report to duty.

 

[bob1852]

Might wanna study on how to spell manager before you report to duty.

Did Joseph brew there while Jesus was born in the brewery manger?

 

[smokinghole]

Like you dicklickers never missed a letter while typing! I never noticed though thanks for correcting my spelling.

 

[SPR-GRN]

dude, congratulations; I "volunteered" at a small brewery in connecticut on the bottling line once, it was freakin awesome; I got to drink all the beer I wanted, and was sent home with a case of "tallies" and "shorties", a swingtop of their ABV-too-high-to-release stout, and a growler of a beer I can't even remember the name or type of (lots of drinking!). I put volunteered in quotes because it was an awesome day and I think I got more out of it than the brewery did (knowledge and of course beer). good luck to you sir, I would love to get into brewing as a profession, but I already have that four year engineering degree I can't turn my back on. Note: most engineers drink, a lot

 

[Jaysus]

I am fairly certain that there is an article in today's paper about smokinghole's success with this program! Way to go, I am glad it worked out.

P.S. I swear we chatted about this online somewhere... but apparently it was not on here.

 

[rhamilton]

I am fairly certain that there is an article in today's paper about smokinghole's success with this program! Way to go, I am glad it worked out.

P.S. I swear we chatted about this online somewhere... but apparently it was not on here.

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/02/connections_harrisburg_univers.html

 

[smokinghole]

I've been low key about it. I figured someone would notice it. Something to note though. It's not a 100% accurate article. As happens with interviews the interviewer messes up information and one big thing is that I do not modify any yeast for brewing. I don't believe GMO yeast is approved anywhere for beverage production to my knowledge. I basically do some lab analysis of finished product and I do microbiological testing.

Thanks for noticing though.