Lucas Pinkerton is the owner and master distiller at Pinkerton’s Distillery: I have been brewing since I was 20 and have learned that, with a touch of patience, I could have great tasting beverages at my fingertips. This has led into a lifelong passion for cooking and brewing tasty things to eat and drink. I have always loved the thrill Read more...

Chip McElroy has lived in Austin since 1975, when he went to the University of Texas at Austin for undergraduate school and continued through to a PhD. in biochemistry in 1988. During graduate school in about 1983, he learned to brew — “really only ferment, as we used extracts instead of really mashing malt”. During a post-doctorate program in San Diego Read more...