Purushottam Tayde

Brewer with over 3 years of hands-on experience in brewhouse operations, fermentation management, yeast handling, cellar operations, quality control, and craft beer production. Experienced in producing wheat beers, ales, fruit beers, and seasonal beer styles while maintaining consistent quality and food safety standards. Skilled in wort production, yeast pitching, CIP/SIP, brewing calculations, and troubleshooting production issues.

Passionate about brewing science, continuous process improvement, and delivering high-quality beer in a brewery environment.

BREWER - The Brew Estate

(2023-04)

• Operate the complete brewhouse process from milling to wort transfer.
• Perform mashing, lautering, boiling, whirlpooling, and wort cooling according to production schedules.
• Conduct yeast pitching, fermentation monitoring, and temperature control.
• Harvest, store, and reuse brewing yeast following brewery SOPs.
• Produce wheat beers, ales, fruit beers, and seasonal specialty beers.
• Perform brewhouse and fermentation vessel CIP/COP operations.
• Monitor gravity, pH, fermentation progress, and brewing parameters.
• Maintain brewing records and production documentation.
• Coordinate with Quality Assurance for in-process quality checks.
• Support filtration, carbonation, and packaging operations.
• Troubleshoot brewing and fermentation issues to maintain consistent product quality.

BREWING INTERN - Pyramid Microbrewery

(2022-10 - 2023-04)

• Assisted in brewhouse operations and recipe executions.
• Performed fermenter and brewhouse CIP/COP.
• Conducted yeast pitching and yeast handling.
• Assisted with gravity measurement and fermentation monitoring.
• Supported keg cleaning and keg filling operations.
• Assisted in cellar operations and beer transfers.

ASSISTANT WINEMAKER - Prathamesh Wines Pvt. Ltd.

(2021-01 - 2022-10)

• Operated crushing, destemming, and pressing equipment.
• Conducted inoculations and fermentation monitoring.
• Managed juice and wine transfers.
• Performed filtration and clarification processes.
• Assisted in bottling and labeling operations.
• Conducted laboratory sampling and quality checks.
• Worked with chilling systems and cellar operations.
• Maintained production records and sanitation standards.

WINEMAKING INTERN - Prathamesh Wines Pvt. Ltd.

(2020-01 - 2020-07)

• Grape receiving, crushing, and destemming.
• Juice transfer and fermentation support.
• Laboratory sampling and basic analysis.
• Bottling and labeling support.
• Assisted in cellar operations and sanitation.

Bachelor of Technology - Wine, Brewing and Alcohol Technology - Savitribai Phule Pune University, Nashik, Maharashtra (2019 - 2022)