Line Around The Block
Sean recalls their first blockbuster stout release
Jun 11, 2026 · 52 min · 20 segments
Rob Bessett of Milieu Fermentation interviews Sean Buchan of Cerebral Brewing Co. Visit AllAboutBeer.com for more podcasts, to read original articles, and to get info…
Sean BuchanGuest
Rob BessetteHost
He earned his doctorate in physical therapy from the University of Colorado in 2010, and practiced as a physical therapist until a few months after Cerebral was founded.

Sean home-brewed for years before going pro, and was Cerebral's only brewer when he opened the brewery in 2015.

It has since grown to three locations across the Front Range, with a fourth one on the way in 2027.

Uh, so having transitioned from the medical field myself, I'm really interested to hear what was kinda like your deciding factor in transitioning from a career as a physical therapist, which takes a long time to even get to that point, and then deciding to open up Cerebral.

Something that obviously you get pretty familiar with as a, as a brewery owner as well.

I think the, uh, transition into physical therapy was, was more based on me just not really finding my way before that point.

I had, I'd gotten my, uh, degree in biology back in Ohio at Wittenberg University, where I met our other founder, Dan, and I really loved the sciences, and I didn't really know what to do with it.

Uh, my brain didn't work the way that it, it probably should have to get into, like, research, and I, I knew that that wasn't gonna be a path for me.

Uh, so I had done, like, a little bit of volunteering at a PT clinic in town, and that was just...

It was like, I, I can help people get better, I can use, uh, the sciences that I f- already have a background in.

He earned his doctorate in physical therapy from the University of Colorado in 2010, and practiced as a physical therapist until a few months after Cerebral was founded.

Sean home-brewed for years before going pro, and was Cerebral's only brewer when he opened the brewery in 2015.

It has since grown to three locations across the Front Range, with a fourth one on the way in 2027.

Uh, so having transitioned from the medical field myself, I'm really interested to hear what was kinda like your deciding factor in transitioning from a career as a physical therapist, which takes a long time to even get to that point, and then deciding to open up Cerebral.

Something that obviously you get pretty familiar with as a, as a brewery owner as well.

I think the, uh, transition into physical therapy was, was more based on me just not really finding my way before that point.

I had, I'd gotten my, uh, degree in biology back in Ohio at Wittenberg University, where I met our other founder, Dan, and I really loved the sciences, and I didn't really know what to do with it.

Uh, my brain didn't work the way that it, it probably should have to get into, like, research, and I, I knew that that wasn't gonna be a path for me.

Uh, so I had done, like, a little bit of volunteering at a PT clinic in town, and that was just...

It was like, I, I can help people get better, I can use, uh, the sciences that I f- already have a background in.
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