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So often, when you listen to these episodes, you hear conversations with people far along in their experience with beer, wine, spirits, or other alcoholic beverages. We\u2019ve had our share of brewers and owners who have been in the game for a decade or more. And in this conversation, we\u2019re invited to hear from Natalie Thurman, an up-and-coming brewer discovering what it means to go pro, create recipes, and learn all the time.

Natalie was a homebrewer before she was brought on as a vocational brewer at Pittsburgh\u2019s Trace Brewing. Over a six-month period from summer 2023 through the end of that year, Natalie worked alongside and learned from a variety of staff at Trace, picking up tips, tricks, and an education that will guide her in brewing for years to come. It\u2019s all new\u2014Natalie is a clinical research professional and registered nurse who\u2019s spent more than 10 years working in healthcare\u2014but as you\u2019ll hear in this chat, there\u2019s a lightness and excitement at work in her life through beer.

While we talk about her beginnings in homebrewing and building an interest in beer, I invite you to really hear the way Natalie talks about finding herself through her homebrewing and her work at Trace. Spending time at a brewery and meeting industry peers has seemed to unlock something special for her, and it\u2019s an opportunity you\u2019ll hear she\u2019s not taking for granted. This is a chance to hear what it sounds like to start something new and why it\u2019s so meaningful. It\u2019s an opportunity to hear about how the joy of homebrewing becomes the joy of professional brewing and all that\u2019s to come for Natalie and those in her orbit.

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