Workforce Wednesday: Beer brewing and the process industry

In Alaska, there are 28 active breweries with eight more in the planning stages. But whether companies are turning crude oil to fuel or grain into beer, both are part of the process industry.
Lee Ellis, the head brewer of Midnight Sun Brewing Company, says there’s a lot of science that goes into brewing and local breweries require a lot of resources, like water. Not only that, but from start to finish a brewery needs boiler and refrigeration systems, plumbing, welding and lab work. Then th