WISEACRE Shift Brewer​/Cellar Person

Who We Are:

WISEACRE Brewing Company is a fast-growing regional brewery located in the gritty but grand city of Memphis, TN. We first started brewing in 2013 and now have 2 production facilities along with accompanying taprooms and a pizza kitchen serving up New Haven style pies. Our focus is on making top quality, uniquely flavorful beverages but we have a particular passion for lagers as evidenced by our top-selling, Great American Beer Festival silver & bronze medal winning Tiny Bomb Pilsner, our gold medal winning Sky Dog Lager, and our gold medal winning Sky Dog Amber.

The brewery's core values are summarized with the acronym BEEFY, which has nothing to do with beef but which does stand for Bliss, Education, Excellence, Folks, and Yourself. These values guide our company culture and operations and we're looking for BEEFY folks with a love of craft beverages to join our team. Our most ardent wish is to hire an experienced Shift Brewer/Cellar Person who can hit the ground running within the next month but we are also open to training a reliable, curious candidate who has an abundance of passion, fine attention to detail, and more limited brewery experience.

The WISEACRE shift brewer/cellar person is responsible for assisting the rest of our team in all aspects of production. This position will be responsible for helping facilitate both hot-side and cold-side operations and will be cross‑trained to work with very different equipment set ups across both of our facilities. This non‑exempt position will report directly to the Head Brewer.

• Safely and effectively operating brewhouse/cellar equipment at both of our locations, including various automated and manually operated systems.
• Complete startup and shutdown procedures for either production facility.
• Participate in all aspects of production, including malt production, yeast handling, dry hopping, beer transfers, filtration, fruit zesting, CIP, and barrel handling.
• Keep work areas clean and sanitary at all times.
• Log data and metrics in a timely, accurate fashion using preferred company systems and software.
• Perform routine maintenance on brewing systems and equipment, as well as troubleshooting problems.
• Maintain an awareness of inventory for both raw ingredients and parts and ensure proper handling/storage of all raw materials and processing aids.
• Communicates any known mechanical, raw material, and/or beer quality issues to brewery management.
• Practice safe handling of chemicals.
• Accurately follow existing WISEACRE recipes.
• Adhere to and assist in writing, updating, and maintaining all production‑related SOPs.
• Uphold QA/QC standards and participate in sensory evaluations.
• Identify opportunities for operational improvements.
• Provide support to other coworkers, including providing occasional coverage of other related departments (packaging, warehouse) as needed.
• Operate a forklift, scissor lift, and boom lift; obtain necessary licenses if requested.

• Wort production is achieved on either a 20bbl JVNW 3 vessel brewhouse (manual) OR a 50bbl Brau Kon 4‑vessel brewhouse (automated).
• Our fermentation capacity includes an array of 20, 40, 80bbl FV’s with corresponding BBTs at our original facility. Our newer production facility features 200 bbl unitanks.
• We utilize GEA Westfalia centrifuges at both of our locations, as well as a GEA carbonation skid at our newer production facility.
• Packaging equipment includes a Meheen bottling line, Cask filler, Krones Craftmate filler, Pneumatic Angelus seamers, and IDD kegging equipment.

• Our company runs on Google Workspace but you won’t need your own computer as shared production computers are provided for all core record‑keeping tasks.
• Experience with Ekos is a plus.
• Experience with Brau Kon would make you a unicorn.

• Typical operating hours range between 5 AM - midnight and average shifts run between 7 and 9 hours.
• Production is most often Mon‑Fri but some weekend and night shifts may be required; scheduling flexibility is a must.
• We aim for a 40 hour work week most weeks and offer overtime when production demands merit it.
• Holidays scheduling varies…