Beers and Engineers With Brett Ireland, ‘04 BSc(Eng)

What the Job

You don’t need an engineering degree to start a brewery…. but it helps! Brett Ireland, ‘04 BSc(Eng), is an engineering grad from the U of A and the CEO of Bearhill Brewing, a company that he and two school friends started about 16 years ago. We talked to Brett about how his education helped him start a brewery with operations in four locations, the skills needed to make it in the restaurant industry, and the importance of hiring the right people. By the end of the episode we just MAY have answered Brett’s own son’s question: “Dad, what do you DO?”