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Jack Albanese

Jack Albanese

Brewery operations executive — Vice President of Operations at Kona Brewing Hawaii, formerly VP of Operations at Terrapin Beer Company in Athens, Georgia.

Sep 1, 2026

A Fork in the Road

A Fork in the Road

Terrapin Beer Company in Athens: Brewing, Community, and Sustainability

Sep 1 · 25m

David ZelskiHOST
14:46
This is where we meet the powerhouse of the brewery.
Jack Albanese
Jack AlbaneseGUEST
14:49
Yeast is the powerhouse of this brewery.
Jack Albanese
Jack AlbaneseGUEST
14:51
Like, we joke around, like, as brewers, we're just sugar water makers.
Jack Albanese
Jack AlbaneseGUEST
14:54
We're making sugar water in the brew house just so that the yeast can take that, make alcohol, make CO2, and kind of make that final product come to life.
Jack Albanese
Jack AlbaneseGUEST
15:03
So in the brewery, we have got mostly 200-barrel vessels.
Jack Albanese
Jack AlbaneseGUEST
15:07
So we've got 29 200-barrel tanks.
Jack Albanese
Jack AlbaneseGUEST
15:10
We've got two smaller 120-barrel tanks.
David ZelskiHOST
19:08
And even at this final step, Terrapin is still thinking about how they affect the environment.

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