如何成为酿酒师

有很多爱craft beer。作为Arches BrewingBrewmaster Jamey Adams认为，Craft Brewing是“不断追求完美和您偶尔实现的意识。”什么工作描述。而且，亚当斯（Adams）补充说：“如果您是那种认为您每天至少要学一件事的人，那么酿造适合您。”

根据三个精酿啤酒商的说法，您可以自己成为工艺品酿造商。

Working as a craft brewer isn’t easy, warns Dustin Hazer, owner and brewmaster atHelio Basin Brewing Company。“The工艺酿造行业比任何更重要的是生活方式，”他解释说。“这不仅是一项工作，而且不是典型的职业道路。长时间长时间的工作是身体上要求的，通常会降低补偿。”但是，如果您要面对挑战，“经过这些障碍的权衡是您之所以这样做，是因为您喜欢它，最终使您很高兴地做自己热衷的事情，” Hazer说。“这并不适合所有人，但是如果您发现这是您的呼唤，您将知道这无疑是值得的。”

踏入啤酒厂的门的一种方法 - 字面意思是访问当地啤酒厂并询问他们是否需要另一只手来帮助完成一些更琐碎的任务：小桶清洁，装瓶或罐头。亚当斯说：“通常，您会发现他们需要帮助。”作为志愿者，您可以与员工和行业内的网络互动。“如果您想进入手工艺酿造行业，您必须了解啤酒厂有时是小家庭，很难将一个新手带入如此小的圈子，”丹尼·布鲁克特（Danny Bruckert）解释说大约酿造公司。Volunteering is just one way you can break into that circle and network to your advantage.

We know this will be a really tough step to take—that’s sarcasm, readers—but Hazer says tasting as much beer as you can, in as many styles as you can, is a crucial step to expanding your brewing knowledge. “Write down sensory notes and compare them to style guidelines,” which you can find in a bevy of brewing books, Hazer says. “This will help you start to understand the science behind the beverage as well as the art.” Not only will this exercise teach you more about brewing, but it will give you a taste for whether you have the drive for this job. “No matter how long you’ve been brewing, there are constantly things you can be learning,” he says, “so if you like the act of brewing but not understanding what is behind the brew, this profession probably is not for you.”

正如布鲁克特（Bruckert）所解释的那样：“在更大的平台上看到该过程时，与基本级别的过程保持联系将使您更加熟悉。”首先，亚当斯建议加入homebrewing club。“经常酿造俱乐部将酿造了一大批of some style and then divide the beer into smaller individual carboys that can be pitched with different strains of yeast or dry hopped with different hops,” Adams says. “This will provide much more knowledge about brewing than just a single batch treated one way.” If you make a brew you’re particularly proud of, take meticulous notes on your process and bring it to a professional brewer to critique it, suggests Bruckert. “Negative or positive, you'll at least be establishing a relationship,” he points out, before adding, “think of each batch as a potential business card, and make sure that you label the bottles in some way with your name, phone number, and what kind of beer it is” before you hand it out.

A background in chemistry, microbiology, or even engineering could be your best friend if you want to become a brewer, Bruckert says. “Don't think that's your [only] ticket to ride though,” he warns “I've seen many people come into the craft industry with backgrounds like that, who for some reason or another just couldn't manage to survive.” If you don’t have a degree in those fields, “a general knowledge of pH, acid/base titrations, temperature versus CO2 volumes, specific gravity,酒精量亚当斯说：“体积和体重转换，浓度计算以及酵母饲养技术绝对会帮助您踏入门。”布鲁克特还建议加入一项酿造计划 - 美国啤酒协会，西贝尔学院和U.C.戴维斯 - 所有人都提供他们。布鲁克特说：“如果那些遥不可及，那就从桶装垫圈开始。”这项工作将帮助您学习酿造的基础知识。

擦洗坦克听起来可能不有趣，但是布鲁克特说从底部开始并不是那么糟糕。布鲁克特说：“这些可能不是迷人的工作，但它们是一只脚。”吸收所有您可以的信息并等待。他说：“啤酒厂就像其他任何业务一样。”“人们来来去去，您可能会发现自己的下一个。”