Brewers

The beers of Triple Rock

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Who makes our beer, and how they make it

Rodger Davis, Triple Rock's Head Brewer

Reid & John Martin are happy to have Rodger Davis on-board as the Head Brewer for Triple Rock. Rodger became renowned in the world of craft brewing during his almost six-year tenure as Head Brewer for Drake’s Brewing Co., in San Leandro, CA. Rodger likes to brew big! Lots of character and lots of hops! Now at Triple Rock you’ll be likely to taste a lot of unique special & seasonal beers, as well maybe a few old T-Rock favorites that have been “Rodgerized”. Also, expect to see more barrel-aged beers at Triple Rock in the future. Rodger is a true pioneer in the barrel-aged movement, within the American artisan brewing community.

Rodger describes how he got into the Craft Brewing Industry:

It all started in the summer of ’91. While camping in the Marin Headlands in between Grateful Dead shows in Sacramento and before heading to Shoreline. Our camping neighbors were doing the same as we were and we ended up having a few Sierra Nevada’s with them. That’s when they mentioned that they were homebrewers. It was a huge epiphany for me. I talked to them for hours about how they brew to the point where they started telling me to shut up about it. When I got home later that week I went straight to the local homebrew store and bought all the things they told me I needed. After taking way to many precautions (sanitizing the spoon before I put it in the boiling wort!?) the first batch was fermenting away. It was probably the worst beer anyone tried, but we drank a bunch of Anchor Steam during the brewing, so at least we had enough fun to do it again and again. Six years later, still brewing at home and stuck as a dispatcher for bike messengers in San Francisco it was time for a change. I enrolled at the Siebel Institute, a brewing school in Chicago, and haven’t looked back since. My first professional brewing job after school was at San Francisco Brewing Company. After spending a year there I went to work for Pyramid Brewing in Berkeley for two and a half years. Next stop was at Drake’s Brewing Company in San Leandro for five and a half years. It’s great to be here at Triple Rock where I can experiment, making small 7-barrel batches, and then being able to see right away how my beer goes over with the Triple Rock customers. It’s hard to get that kind of instant feedback at a production brewery!

Brewing Alumni

Reid and John take pride the great number of brewers at Triple Rock that have gone on to fame as brewmasters at other craft brewing companies, or on to fortune by opening their very own brewery.

A partial list:

Bradley Robbins - Head Brewer - Oxfordshire Ales, Oxford, England
Christian Kazakoff - Head Brewer - Iron Springs Brewery, Fairfax, CA
Rick Warner - Brewmaster - Meadow Micro-Brewery, Dublin, Ireland
Roger Lind - Owner/Brewmaster - Lind Brewing Co., San Leandro, CA (Now Drakes Brewing Co.)
Rob LoBreglio - Brewmaster - Great Dane Brewing Co., Madison Wis.
Teri Fahrendorf - Brewmaster - Steelhead Breweries, Eugene, OR
Pete Leavitt - Brewmaster - Stone Coast Breweries, Portland, Maine
Sandy Savage - Owner/Brewmaster - North Fork Brewery, near Mt. Baker, WA
Chris Sheahan - Brewer - Chelsea Piers Brewery, New York, New York
Matt Cohen - Owner/Brewmaster - Ten Taps Brewing Co., Burlington, Vermont
Sean Donnelly - Co-Owner - Pende Oreille Brewing, Sandpoint, Idaho (Closed)
Shaun O'Sullivan - Co-Owner/Brewmaster - 21st Amendment Brewing Co., San Francisco, CA
Scott Meyer - Co-Owner/Brewmaster - Outer Banks Brewing Co., Kill Devil Hills, North Carolina

If you know the brewing whereabouts of any other former Triple Rock brewers, let us know! Send e-mail to info@triplerock.com.

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