{"id":3874,"date":"2014-02-22T10:00:20","date_gmt":"2014-02-22T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=3874"},"modified":"2014-02-21T17:33:12","modified_gmt":"2014-02-21T22:33:12","slug":"alumnus-ben-howe-his-core-themed-brewery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2014\/02\/22\/alumnus-ben-howe-his-core-themed-brewery\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumnus Ben Howe &amp; his Core-themed brewery"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment3875\" style=\"width: 187px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/core\/files\/2014\/02\/beer-closeup.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment3875\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/core\/files\/2014\/02\/beer-closeup-177x300.jpg\" alt=\"source: enlightenmentales.wordpress.com\" width=\"177\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3875\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2014\/02\/beer-closeup-177x300.jpg 177w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2014\/02\/beer-closeup-604x1024.jpg 604w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2014\/02\/beer-closeup.jpg 2005w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 177px) 100vw, 177px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment3875\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">source: enlightenmentales.wordpress.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ben Howe (CAS &#8217;07), an entrepreneurial Core Curriculum alumnus, has opened a nano brewery and appropriately named it\u00a0<em>Enlightenment Ales<\/em>!<\/p>\n<p>To our delight, the titles of his individual ales are, in our minds, very much Core-themed:\u00a0<em>Cosmos, Illumination, Enlightenment<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>As Ben describes on the company <a href=\"http:\/\/enlightenmentales.wordpress.com\">website<\/a>, the nano brewery makes\u00a0Bi\u00e8re de Champagne.<\/p>\n<p>For the laymen in brewery terminology:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Microbrewery#Nanobrewery\">Nanobrewery<\/a>\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0a type of very small brewery operation, often culturally defined by a less than 4 US beer barrels brew system.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beeradvocate.com\/beer\/style\/141\/\">Bi\u00e8re de Champagne<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; one of the newest and most interesting styles of beer. It has much potential within the beer industry as a top-shelf crossover beer. Primarily brewed in Belgium, these beers typically undergo a lengthy maturation. Most are delicate, high in alcohol, highly carbonated and sometimes spiced. Color can range from very pale to dark hues.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment3876\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/core\/files\/2014\/02\/1546418_10102031846874380_649597367_n.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment3876\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/core\/files\/2014\/02\/1546418_10102031846874380_649597367_n-300x233.jpg\" alt=\"Ben (left) at Enlightenment Ales' first official tasting, 2012 ACBF.\" width=\"300\" height=\"233\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3876 \" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2014\/02\/1546418_10102031846874380_649597367_n-300x233.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/files\/2014\/02\/1546418_10102031846874380_649597367_n.jpg 811w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment3876\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben (left) at Enlightenment Ales&#8217; first official tasting, 2012 ACBF.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The\u00a0<em>Edible Boston\u00a0<\/em>magazine recently wrote up a <a href=\"http:\/\/edibleboston.com\/the-road-to-enlightenment\/\">profile<\/a> for\u00a0<em>Enlightenment<\/em> <em>Ales<\/em>, giving it the attention it deserves. Here is an extract:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Upon graduating from Boston University in 2007, Howe\u2019s homebrewing experience earned him a volunteer position at the Northampton Brewery and, several months later, a part-time job at the Cambridge Brewing Company (CBC). He learned fast and continued to homebrew as much as possible, and in 2010 he received a scholarship to study brewing science and engineering at the American Brewers Guild in Vermont.<\/p>\n<p>Roughly three years into his career in beer and newly equipped with a wealth of technical knowledge and money he\u2019d saved while waiting tables, Howe decided to go it alone. A bottle of beer inspired him to start his own company. And as luck would have it, Will Meyers, the brewmaster at CBC who had hired him, offered nothing but encouragement. \u201cBen is a very talented and creative brewer,\u201d Meyers explains, \u201chard working, unafraid of putting in the long hours required in honoring the term hand-crafting. I think the light bulb went off after drinking some DeuS, which I may or may not have given him as a Christmas present.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Those of you over 21: be sure to check out these Core-themed ales!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Howe (CAS &#8217;07), an entrepreneurial Core Curriculum alumnus, has opened a nano brewery and appropriately named it\u00a0Enlightenment Ales! To our delight, the titles of his individual ales are, in our minds, very much Core-themed:\u00a0Cosmos, Illumination, Enlightenment. As Ben describes on the company website, the nano brewery makes\u00a0Bi\u00e8re de Champagne. For the laymen in brewery [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3740,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[556,477,1548,4854],"tags":[48593,48731,48464,48592,48590,48591,48320,5216,48594],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3740"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3874"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3879,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3874\/revisions\/3879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}