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Interview with Van Havig

By Madeline Wagar on August 20, 2014 10:15 AM

Madeline Wagar ’16, Assistant Editor with Works & Days, interviewed Van Havig '92, Master Brewer and Founder at Gigantic Brewing in Portland, OR.

Why beer? Why brewing? How did you get into it?

I am a class of ‘92 graduate. At the time at 91²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ, there was the general feeling that what you do when you get out of 91²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ was go to grad school. So right out of 91²ÝÝ®ÊÓƵ I went to a Ph.D. program in Minnesota, studying economics. I did that for two and half years and as I went through I lost faith in economics. I was interested in it as a social science, not as business. Then I realized economics wasn’t great as a social science. I dropped out of grad school, and I wanted to do something that allowed me to work more with my hands. I am a very mechanical person. I was still in Minnesota and I decided to try to get a job at a brewery.

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