Miski Brewing Company Corp. – Barrie, Ontario

Position: Full-Time, Permanent

Schedule: Approximately 40 hours per week

Reports To: Ownership / Directors

Compensation: Competitive, commensurate with qualifications and experience, to be discussed during the interview process.

COMPANY OVERVIEW

Miski Brewing Company is a dedicated gluten-free craft brewery in Barrie, Ontario, producing innovative beers with quinoa and other alternative grains. Our team combines practical brewing expertise, disciplined production, technical curiosity, and a commitment to exceptional beer quality.

POSITION SUMMARY

We are seeking an experienced, hands-on commercial Brewmaster to provide senior technical leadership across brewing operations, current beer development, and beer quality. This is a working brewery leadership position: the successful candidate must be ready to brew beer, run equipment, manage fermentation and cellar processes, and troubleshoot on the production floor—not simply direct projects from an office or laboratory. Reporting to ownership, the Brewmaster will serve as the senior brewing technical authority, providing direction and mentorship to the existing Lead Brewer and brewing/production team. Responsibilities include maintaining reliable day-to-day production, creating and scaling new beer styles, improving existing recipes and processes, and ensuring consistency and quality in every batch. Production and personnel decisions remain subject to company direction and established reporting arrangements.

Important: This is a commercial beer-brewing role, not a standalone food science, quality assurance, or laboratory position. Significant hands-on brewery experience is required.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

1.



Hands-On Brewing & Production Leadership

- Actively perform and oversee commercial brewhouse operations, including ingredient preparation, mashing, wort production, transfers, fermentation, conditioning, filtration, carbonation, and product release.
- Provide senior day-to-day technical direction to the Lead Brewer and brewing team; coordinate brewing priorities, staffing needs, raw materials, and production execution with ownership.
- Monitor fermentation performance, yeast handling, process parameters, yields, and equipment operation; diagnose issues and implement practical corrections.
- Support cellar work, cleaning and sanitation (CIP), packaging/canning activities, and production coverage when required.
- Promote safe operating practices, effective equipment use, preventive maintenance, and continuous improvement in brewery efficiency.

2. Beer Development & Brewing Innovation

- Lead the creation, recipe formulation, pilot brewing, testing, refinement, and commercial scale-up of new beers and beer styles.
- Develop and optimize formulations using quinoa, buckwheat, millet, and other alternative grains, with attention to flavour, fermentation, body, stability, and repeatability.
- Improve existing beers through controlled adjustments to ingredients, enzymes, yeast, brewing methods, and process parameters.
- Maintain clear trial protocols,



brewing specifications, recipe records, sensory results, and scale-up instructions from pilot to commercial production.
- Work with ownership and relevant partners on product concepts, feasibility, production validation, and launches.

3. Beer Quality, Consistency & Process Control

- Own the technical brewing aspects of beer quality and consistency, from raw-material suitability through fermentation, conditioning, packaging, and finished beer.
- Establish and monitor brewery-specific checks such as gravity, pH, alcohol content, sensory profile, carbonation, microbiological controls where applicable, and finished-product specifications.
- Investigate off-flavours, fermentation deviations, recipe inconsistencies, alcohol variance, shelf-life concerns, and process failures; implement corrective and preventive actions.
- Strengthen brewing SOPs, batch records, sampling plans, calibration routines, traceability, sanitation, and quality documentation in collaboration with the team.
- Support applicable gluten-free controls, GMP, HACCP-based practices, certification, labelling, and regulatory requirements as they relate to beer production.

4. Team Leadership & Operational Improvement

- Coach, train, and provide technical guidance to the Lead Brewer, brewer, cellar, and packaging personnel, while promoting accountability and collaboration.
- Help evaluate equipment, suppliers, brewing technologies, and process improvements that support productivity, quality, and new product development.
- Communicate issues and recommendations clearly to ownership, including production readiness, quality risks, material needs, and

📌 Brewmaster – Brewing Operations, Product Development (Barrie)
🏢 Miski Brewing
📍 Barrie