In recent years, Florida has become a destination for craft beer enthusiasts looking for a bit of sunshine with their bubbly.
In 2015, the industry came to the University of South Florida, where Joe Askren, a professor in the MUMA College of Business and program director for USF’s Brewing Arts Certificate program, was teaching a three-credit elective called “Intro to Beer Science.”
That year, 3 Daughters Brewing and Green Bench Brewing came to him on the USF St. Petersburg campus to collaborate on a new pipeline of students into craft brewing careers…