Over the past three years, Cory King’s Side Project Brewing has gone from labor of love to the #3 rated brewery in the world on the social beer-sharing app Untappd—a meteoric rise for the once homebrewer whose limited production, hands-on method, and refusal to brew popular styles such IPA are unusual . . . to say the least. What’s in the 6-pack of his choice? Read on to find out.
King’s microbiology undergrad helped prepare him to be a brewer, and his MBA helped prepare him to run a brewery, but Side Project Owner/Brewer Cory King credits his palate to a history of geeking out about beer.
“Before I was a brewer, I was a beer geek, and I embrace that term,” says King. “I traded, figured things out, and learned more about different beers. And I think that’s one of the saving graces for me as a brewer—knowing where we stack up quality-wise.”