New Brewing & Distillation Studies

(BRDS) minor - Spring 2022

East Tennessee State University, in partnership with local Tennessee Hills Brewing and Distilling, has come together to offer students practical and hands-on training for the industry.

“Tennessee Hills is humbled yet very proud to help a great university like ETSU provide its students with worldclass experiential learning opportunities in the rapidly growing distillation and fermentation sciences fields,” CEO of Tennessee Hills Scott Andrew and President and founder Stephen Callahan said in a joint statement. “Northeast Tennessee has been a cultured home to these craft sciences for over 200 years and there is no better place than ETSU and these great ‘Tennessee Hills’ to make something like this happen.”

“This is a unique educational program that we developed through listening to the needs of regional industries,” McCorkle said. “People are not necessarily training for this in northeast Tennessee, so we are helping to fill that void. Meeting the workforce needs of the Appalachian Highlands goes directly to the core of what this institution has been doing for more than 100 years, and we are grateful to Tennessee Hills for partnering with us on this venture and for investing in the future of our students.”