{"id":62553,"date":"2025-02-01T17:08:48","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T17:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/recipes\/category-a-b\/beer\/beer-birthday-peter-kruger\/"},"modified":"2025-02-01T17:08:48","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T17:08:48","slug":"beer-birthday-peter-kruger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=62553","title":{"rendered":"Beer Birthday: Peter Kruger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"text\">\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53491110581_0942fa7c79_o.jpg\"\/><br \/>Today is the 55th birthday of Peter Kruger, who for many years was the head brewer at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bearrepublic.com\/\">Bear Republic Brewing<\/a>. Peter was an early brewer at Full Sail in Hood River, Oregon. He came to California to become the original brewer at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stumptown.com\/\">Stumptown Brewery<\/a> when they opened in 2001, but left in 2005 to join Bear Republic. Peter has become an integral part of Bear Republic\u2019s success since joining the team, and is a terrific person to share a pint with. More recently, after the changes at Bear Republic, he\u2019s moved to Flagstaff, Arizona to become the COO at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.motherroadbeer.com\/\">Mother Road Brewing<\/a>. The only downside to that is we don\u2019t see as often these days. Please join me in wishing Peter a very happy birthday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/54291931149_fe9f2b5cf0_b.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Me, Peter, and Agus Blanco at GABF last year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/8056\/8371123408_bc370faf12_b.jpg\"\/>Rich Norgrove and Peter at the New Albion re-launch at Russian River Brewing a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8356\/8359174306_295b474805_o.jpg\" alt=\"ezryder-2\" width=\"460\" height=\"345\"\/><br \/>Bear Republic brewers Rich Norgrove, Jode Yaksic, Peter and Ray Lindecker during a visit in 2008.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2612\/3940013264_59207b208b.jpg\" alt=\"P1160185\" width=\"345\" height=\"460\"\/><br \/>Peter explaining one Bear Republic\u2019s beers at their annual GABF Tasting at the brewpub in 2009.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2608\/3966835817_91c6c501cb_o.jpg\" alt=\"gabf07-awards-25\" width=\"460\" height=\"345\"\/><br \/>Peter (2nd from the left) with the Bear Republic gang accepting another award at GABF in 2007.<\/p>\n<p><!--<rdf:RDF xmlns:rdf=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/1999\/02\/22-rdf-syntax-ns#\"\n\t\t\txmlns:dc=\"http:\/\/purl.org\/dc\/elements\/1.1\/\"\n\t\t\txmlns:trackback=\"http:\/\/madskills.com\/public\/xml\/rss\/module\/trackback\/\">\n\t\t<rdf:Description rdf:about=\"https:\/\/brookstonbeerbulletin.com\/beer-birthday-peter-kruger\/\"\n    dc:identifier=\"https:\/\/brookstonbeerbulletin.com\/beer-birthday-peter-kruger\/\"\n    dc:title=\"Beer Birthday: Peter Kruger\"\n    trackback:ping=\"https:\/\/brookstonbeerbulletin.com\/beer-birthday-peter-kruger\/trackback\/\" \/>\n<\/rdf:RDF>-->\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is the 55th birthday of Peter Kruger, who for many years was the head brewer at Bear Republic Brewing. 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