(Paso Robles, CA) – After 22 years with the corporate, Jim Crooks, often called Bitter Jim has parted methods with Firestone Walker Brewing and by extension, Firestone Walker BarrelWorks.
Within the folks lore of Firestone Walker Brewing, Jim Crooks grew to become head of high quality management for Firestone Walker way back, and was concerned within the firms early experimental and barrel aged endeavors. After they started getting severe about creating bitter and tart ales utilizing wild yeast, they realized that they would want to reduce the chance of brewhouse contamination and make it possible for all wild ale manufacturing was produced downstream from the primary brewery in Paso Robles. Jim, alongside returning Firestone alumni Jeffers Richardson turned the unique brewhouse and taproom in Buellton right into a vacation spot for wild ale and bitter ale lovers often called Barrelworks.
Jim has been a buddy of The Full Pint for years and even held an intimate mixing session with us to create a small batch mix of beer for considered one of our earlier anniversary events, an expertise that gave us nice perception and training into oak aged bitter ale.
Jim despatched us a fast memo saying his departure: “After 22 years with Firestone Walker and having had extra successes than ever imagined on this business, I’m trying ahead to my subsequent enterprise. I’m excited to share my present challenge with you because it evolves and grow to be actuality. Thanks to people who have influenced my success, inspired my imaginative and prescient, and collaborated alongside the way in which. In case you are excited about monitoring my journey, comply with me @therealsourjim on Instagram.”
Following up with Firestone Walker, David Walker, co-founder of Firestone Walker Brewing had this to say: “We’re going to miss Jim and can at all times credit score his ardour for the magical world of fermentation and microbiology as a driving drive for lots of the nice beers we’ve brewed through the years. That keenness lives on in these beers and we want him all the perfect for the longer term.”
In following up with Jim, we discovered that his place had been eradicated, and once we requested Firestone Walker of the way forward for Barrelworks with out Jim, we didn’t get a response. We want Jim the perfect of luck and look ahead to seeing the place he lands.
