Plum Luv Foods Season 4 episode 10 New Belgium Brewing's Lauren Woods Salazar

On this episode we continue our beer series with one of the best breweries in the country New Belgium Brewing. As of 2015, it was the fourth-largest craft brewery and eighth-largest overall brewery in the United States. Our guest is Lauren Woods Salazar, she is the wood callar director for New Belgium Brewing.

While she was developing the wood program, Lauren also built the company’s sensory program, where she developed the sensory program from a basic production check to its present world-class program and education. Lauren and her team focused on the education of New Belgium’s expert taste panel, sales staff and distributing partners in production and flavor profiles of each craft beer.

Lauren has served as a judge at the World Beer Cup and Great American Beer Festival, and as a faculty member of Siebel Institute of Technology. She has presented for the Craft Brewers Conference, World Beer Cup, American Homebrewers Association, American Society of Brewing Chemists, Master Brewers Association of America and others conferences and associations with various acronyms.

Lauren received her BSW from the University of Georgia a lifetime ago and holds a Certificate from University of California- Davis for Applied Sensory Science and Consumer Testing. Its all about beer on this episode of Plumluvfoods.