Diageo Beer Co. USA names Peter Wiens brewmaster of the Guinness Open Gate Brewery & Barrel House. Wiens, who joins from Stone Brewing Co. where he was senior director brewery operations and brewmaster East Coast, will lead the brewing team and brewing operations at the Guinness Open Gate Brewery & Barrel House – which represents an estimated $50million investment to bring Guinness brewing back to U.S. soil after a six-decade absence. The new brewery coincides with the 200th anniversary of Guinness reaching American shores.
Kentucky Distillers’ Association hired Mary Gratzer, who for the past eight years has been Executive Director of the American Advertising Federation-Louisville, as its first Director of the Kentucky Bourbon Affair showcase happening this week.