CAREERS IN DHEMICAL ENGINEERING Yasmin Ali interviews Jaega Wise,Head Brewer at London’s Wild Card Brewery,about her steps from trading chemicals to brewing craft beer

摘要

MY name is Yasmin Ali and I’m a chemical engineer working in the energy sector.I was originally attracted to study chemical engineering because of the breadth of career opportunities it provides.To showcase this diversity,I will be talking to a range of fellow chemical engineers to find out what they do,how they got there,and why they do it.For this instalment,I spoke to Jaega Wise,Head Brewer at Wild Card Brewery in London.Wild Card Brewery is one of London’s microbreweries.Nestled away at the Ravenswood Industrial Estate in Waltham-stow,North London,the brewery produces up to 10,000 L of craft beer per week.As Jaega showed me around the various tanks,pipes,and tiny heat exchangers(compared to what I am used to in the energy industry),she also explained that the brewery has been going since 2012.”I was involved in the beginning.A couple of mates who I used to go drinking with were setting up a brewery at the height of recession time and I had just quit my job in chemical trading with no plan.I was helping them out with this project,and I never left,”she said.After completing her chemical engineering degree,Jaega worked for General Electric’s water division,experience that has been very useful for her current job.