Garrett Discusses Beard Nomination With Draft Magazine

From Draft Magazine

We got a chance to check in with Garrett Oliver, brewmaster and vice president at Brooklyn Brewery, regarding his nomination for Outstanding Wine and Spirits Professional from the James Beard Foundation. Oliver is responsible for every aspect of beer production at the brewery, and obviously he’s doing something right: Over the past 20 years, he’s has won countless awards, many internationally, and published several books (including James Beard Award nominated and International Association of Culinary Professional’s Cookbook Award winner, “The Brewmaster’s Table”), serves as editor-in-chief of “The Oxford Companion to Beer,” and hosted over 600 beer tastings and beer dinners in nine countries. He was also a founding member of Slow Food USA and an international counselor to the global, grassroots organization to “counteract fast food and fast life” for five years. And in 2003, Brooklyn Brewery became the first New York company to begin to use 100 percent wind energy to operate their business. In other words, he’s been busy.”

Read the full interview, conducted by Noah Davis, here.