The cost for this class will be $100.00 and is limited to 75 people.
Ali has been studying hops since 2007 as part of a master’s thesis in Horticulture from Colorado State University that is funded by New Belgium Brewing Company, Odell Brewing Company, and an American Society of Brewing Chemists Graduate Scholarship. Her research has been broadly focused on assessing the viability of growing hops organically in Colorado while helping encourage the industry both in the brewery and on the farm. She has managed two research plots comparing 20 hop varieties and their performance in Colorado. Her final thesis is written on the demand for local hops as determined by a brewery survey. Her research has been featured in several media publications such as Modern Brewery Age, Fox News and The Wall Street Journal. Publications include an “Give Your Homebrew Terroir†featured in Brewer’s Association Zymurgy magazine, as well as “Colorado Hops: Brewery Survey Results†soon to be published in CSU’s Ag Experiment Station Bulletin series. She has also served as CSU’s “brewmaster†for the undergraduate Brewing Science and Technology course and has been instrumental in establishing the new CSU “brewery†using the Sabco BrewMagic system. Ali has an undergraduate degree from University of California at Berkeley in Molecular and Cellular Biology where she focused on cancer research and toxicology. The first practical application of her bachelor’s degree was to learn how to homebrew when she moved to Fort Collins, CO in 2006, and the rest is history.
Contact
Glen Fuller
Rising Sun Farms
16540 Grange Road
Paonia Co 81428
organichops@rof.net
970-274-1256
http://www.coloradoorganichops.com/?page_id=157
