Where do two brewers who share a passion for old-fashioned beers meet for the first time, if they are both from Chicago? In Bavaria, obviously. At beer school.
“We both happened to be from Chicago,” says Hagen Dost, who cofounded Dovetail on the city’s North Side with Bill Wesselink. “But our paths crossed in Munich, where we were both at Doemens Academy for the Siebel program.”
Dost had worked as an engineer for 20 years and was ready for something different. “Eventually I decided that something else was brewing,” he says. “I love beer; I love the beer world.” He took the Siebel program in two-week chunks, using up his days off.