Beer and Coding in Eugene’s Penultimate Beer Survey
Section 1 – Getting to Know You
1. Hello, my name is Ron Gansberg.
2. I get my paycheck from Cascade Brewing Co.
3. I have been working there for Since 1997.
4. My official title is Brew Master/Chief Imagineer.
5. Before working their, I worked at BridgePort and Portland Brewing Co.
6. My old stomping grounds are Sprague River.
7. When it comes to sports, I would sacrifice a goat to ensure a victory for my team, the “Chivas”, the soccer team from Mexico…it really make them play harder seeing one of their own on the alter… not really, I just like sacrificing goats!
8. My stupid human trick is I can appear to be listening.
9. My arch-nemesis is anyone with eyebrows!
10. If a movie about my life were made, my character would be played by Pee Wee Herman in my formative years. Eric SissorHands during my Sturm und Drang period. Colonel Klink as a fully enlightend adult and lastly, Dick Cheney in the benevolence of old age.
Section 2 – All About Beer
11. I got my start if craft brewing by making root beer in the sink at age 12.
12. The last beer I drank was “Cascadian Dark Fresh Hop.”
13. I drank it while I was building out the “Cascade Barrel House” on Belmont in PDX.
14. When I head down to the river for the day, I fill the ice chest with a fresh stunt liver…Plug and play, Baby!
15. Around the brewery, it makes me cringe when I hear the woosh of a bung blowing out of an oak barrel.
16. If by some means; perhaps the result of a bet that went too far; I was forced to live out the remainder of my days drinking only one style of beer, it would be Sour Beers.
17. If I could serve God any one beer that I am responsible for, it would be; having been raised prognostic, I’m not sure how to answear this one.
18. If I could serve God any one beer that I had no hand in creating, it would be; if only he would do something about the “light beer” abomination.
19. The beer I created which is embarrassing enough that if given the chance, I would bury in a New Mexico landfill; alongside all those unsold copies of E.T. for the Atari 2600 is; that beer is hopfully still contained along with the great nuclear dioxin spill of 1989!
20. For people who are interested in working in the craft beer industry, my nugget of wisdom is brewing is like golf…no matter how good you think you are, there is room for improvement…so keep your head down and keep swinging.
Thank you Ron for taking part in the survey. Keep up the great work with all those fantastic Belgians you guys produce.
Cheers!
Kevin