This Pint Has 20 Ounces

This episode we sit down with one of the longest standing team members at Wild Rose, the head brewer at the AF23 taproom, Mark Kerrigan. As a 15 year veteran and employee #6, Mark has a lot of insight into how the brewery has evolved and gives us an inside look at what’s changed during that time at the brewery and in Calgary’s beer scene at large. Mark’s career in the beer industry started in London Ontario on the packaging line for Labatt’s as a summer job. After finishing up his degree Mark tossed in a resume and was asked to come learn how to brew. Mark would later meet his wife, a Calgarian, on a trip to Europe and follow her back to Calgary. At the time there wasn’t much for breweries to work at, but Wild Rose would make him a job offer over the phone and in the decade and a half since then Mark has been able to watch the brewery and the team grow. In those 15 years a lot of things have changed, but many other things have stayed the same. Walking in as Wild Rose’s sixth employee the core lineup of beers