Dixie Cup Speakers

The Foam Rangers are proud to announce the speakers for Dixie Cup XXVI. Garrett Oliver of The Brooklyn Brewery in New York City and Scott Metzger of Freetail Brewing Company in San Antonio will be our featured speakers at the milli-conference on Saturday morning. Garrett will also be leading this year’s Fred Tasting on Friday night.

Garrett Oliver

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Garrett Oliver is the brewmaster of The Brooklyn Brewery, the author of The Brewmaster’s Table and the foremost authority in the United States on the subject of traditional beer. After years of amateur brewing inspired by beers he had encountered during a year in England, Garrett Oliver began brewing professionally at Manhattan Brewing Company in 1989 as an apprentice. He was appointed brewmaster there in 1993. He soon became widely known both here and abroad for his flavorful interpretations of traditional brewing styles and as an avid and entertaining lecturer and writer on the subject of fine beer. Garrett has hosted hundreds of beer tastings and dinners, writes regularly for beer and food-related periodicals, and is internationally recognized as an expert on traditional beer styles and their affinity with good food.

In 1994, Garrett joined The Brooklyn Brewery as Brewmaster and partner. Many of his beers have won national and international awards. He has served as a judge for the Professional Panel Blind Tasting of the Great American Beer Festival for fourteen years, and is a perennial judge for the prestigious Great British Beer Festival competition and the Brewing Industry International Awards.

Garrett’s first book, The Good Beer Book, co-written with Timothy Harper, was published in 1997 by Putnam/Berkley Books. His latest book, The Brewmaster’s Table: Discovering the Pleasures of Real Beer with Real Food, published by HarperCollins in May, 2003, is the winner of a 2004 International Association of Culinary Professionals (IACP) Book Award and was a finalist for the 2004 James Beard Foundation Book Awards. The Brewmaster’s Table was released in a paperback edition in May of 2005.

Garrett is Brewmaster and Vice President for Production of the Brooklyn Brewery. He is a graduate of Boston University, and holds a degree in Broadcasting and Film. He is the recipient of the 1998 Russell Schehrer Award for Innovation and Excellence in Brewing, granted by the Institute for Brewing Studies. It is the highest award given within the United States brewing profession. He is also the recipient of the 2003 Semper Ardens Award for Beer Culture (Denmark) and Cheers Beverage Media’s “Beverage Innovator of the Year” Award for 2006.

Scott Metzger

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Scott Metzger is founder and CEO of Freetail Brewing Company in San Antonio, Texas. On New Year’s Eve 2005, Scott decided his hometown of San Antonio needed a place that specialized in off the wall brews, artisan pizza, and an independent spirit. It took nearly three years, but Freetail Brewing finally opened in November 2008.

Armed with a fiercely wacky staff and a brewing team willing to follow Scott’s “brewers must have beards” rule, Freetail is pushing the beer boundaries in South Texas right out of the gate. When no one is looking, Scott also teaches economics at a local university.

Scott’s presentation is available in PPTX(PPTX Format) and PDF(PDF Format) formats. (Please note that the PDF file was converted from the original PPTX file and is made available for users who cannot open PPTX files, but it may not be an exact translation of the original file.)