Ron Silberstein
Owner
Business & Management
ThirstyBear Brewing Company
United States of America
Biography
ThirstyBear Organic Brewery’s Master Brewer & Founder, Ron Silberstein, established ThirstyBear after his love for home brewing spun out of control. Silberstein first experimented with home brewing in 1980, while attending the University of Massachusetts, Amherst -- shortly after home brewing was legalized. While living in Madrid after college, his fascination with exquisite Spanish cuisine was born, especially the pairing of beer and tapas. To this day, he and ThirstyBear maintain a strong connection to Spain. In 1986, Silberstein moved to San Francisco to study law at UC Hastings, a time when he was extensively home brewing. In the early ‘90s just as brewpubs started to take off around the country, Silberstein decided to hang-up the billable hours as an immigration attorney and ride the emerging waves of the craft beer movement. He brewed, studied, researched, brewed some more, put together a business plan and took the first Intensive Brewing Science and Engineering diploma course offered by the American Brewers Guild. It was there that he had the incredibly fortunate opportunity to study under the preeminent brewing scientist, Dr. Michael Lewis of UC Davis.
Research Interest
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