All About Beer: How did you get your start in brewing? Jean-Marie Roc: It’s a long time ago. I was intent to be a brewer when I was 12. I already appreciated. From the beginning, at the midday meal we got low alcoholic beer, tafel beer every day. And on the Saturday evenings in the... View Article
How did you decide to get into brewing? One might have to ask, why did it take me so long? My grandfather was a brewmaster. My father went to Siebel in 1948. His timing was terrible: he got out of brewmasters’ school when there were probably 800 breweries in the United States. But what they... View Article
How did you get started in brewing? I entered the brewery in ’82 as the purchaser. In ’93 the position of technical production director became free. From being the purchaser, I knew the raw materials very well. Also, we had lived for twelve years in the brewery—so when there were problems in the brewery, they... View Article
Why Ft. Bragg? Well, Ft. Bragg… we moved to Ft. Bragg from Devon, England. Merle and I met in San Francisco. She’s English. It must have been 1976 when she and I met. And when she figured it was time for her to go back to England to spend some time near her mother, we... View Article
