Wednesday, April 15, 2009

David Pierce joins NABC as Director of Brewing Operations.

I’m pleased to announce that the New Albanian Brewing Company has hired David R. Pierce to fill the newly created position of Director of Brewing Operations.

David, who will begin work immediately, joins NABC’s two veteran brewers, Jesse Williams and Jared Williamson. Their popular beers like Elector, Hoptimus, Beak’s Best, Community Dark, Mt. Lee, Kaiser and Thunderfoot will remain the foundation of NABC’s game plan, both on-premise at our two locations and as part of the evolving off-premise distribution.

David will begin work immediately, familiarizing himself with NABC’s portfolio of beers, and serving as de facto project manager overseeing the installation of our new 15-barrel (30-bbl fermenter) DME brewing system, which is slated for shipping in late April or early May to our new downtown New Albany production brewing facility, the Bank Street Brewhouse.

He’s not coming aboard to formulate his own beers. He’s coming to help us make full use of the new system and to achieve the full potential of our existing brands.

You should know that during his 17 years in commercial brewing, David has done it all. He opened Louisville’s first two brewpubs in the modern era, the Silo (now defunct) and Bluegrass Brewing Company, and formulated their rosters of on-premise beers. He sold and installed DME brewing systems, and served as a widely sought consultant to brewers nationwide. More recently, he has specialized in all aspects of BBC's production brewing, quality control and coordination for off-premise distribution.

He’s just the man we need to take it to the next level, and beyond. I’ll happily answer any questions you might have – after I get some sleep.

7 comments:

antzman said...

Congratulations all around on this move.

Unknown said...

Very nice. I can't see anything but good beer coming from there.

Jeremy said...

congratulations David and Roger. Best of luck to both of you. I hope to make it to Bank Street soon!

The Homeroaster said...

That's exciting news! I wish you and the new brewery all the luck, breaks, and hard earned successes you deserve. Here's to great beer from New Albany!

Anonymous said...

Thank you all for the kind words and support. Roger offered me an opportunity I could not pass up. Jesse, Jared and I are ready to rock out some beer.

But first, to build a brewery...

Anonymous said...

...and I need a cool title for the biz cards, like Roger's Carnival Barker.

Any suggestions out there?

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