Jared Rouben is always thinking about food and beer. More specifically he’s always thinking about how to bring them together.
Moody Tongue Brewery’s brewmaster attended the Culinary Institute of America (CIA) in New York City. During the first week of school, he looked into joining the campus wine club. “You had to have a minimum GPA to be involved,” he says, “and pay $25 per event. That didn’t make sense to me. I had been there for only three days.”
So after his seventh day in culinary school, Rouben launched the CIA’s first brew club instead. “Everyone was welcome regardless of GPA, and we charged $1 per event. A dollar seemed like a good price to me.”