Dream job alert: This man dreams up ancient beers for modern brewery
BOULDER, Colo. – Beer archaeologist. Yeah. That's a thing.
Travis Rupp is known as Avery' Brewing's beer archaeologist, but also as the lecturer in Classics, Art History, and Anthropology at CU-Boulder.
He bounces between the two full-time jobs almost every day of the week.
Rupp travels all over the country, and world, researching ancient civilizations--and their beers. The recipes he finds are then recreated at Avery Brewery.
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