Adi was Omega’s very first employee in 2014, and he holds our record for most years of homebrewing experience! He’s a Portland, OR native and a former anthropology professor. He enjoys reggae covers of 1980’s hits and Turkish music, and he is a father of 4 (including twins!).

Taylor, an Arizona native, is our Wort Production Master. You can typically find him manning the kettle, operating the forklift or fixing something. He spends his free time remodeling his home and teaching his daughter Lincoln Jane how to help.

Nate hails from Cleveland, OH. He enjoys cooking, Jiu Jitsu, and brewing with his favorite yeast strain (the beloved OYL-020 Belgian Ale R). Nate’s favorite music to play for our yeast? The Greatest Hits of Hall & Oates, of course.

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Richard is a Chicago native and recently made the career change to something he’s passionate about - beer.  He enjoys attending concerts and beer fests (obviously) and taking care of his pet tarantula, Sparkles.

Keith was born and raised in Texas, but moved to Chicago over a decade ago, and has since developed an interest in an ever growing variety of craft beers. Working at Omega gives him a chance to combine his degree in biology and his love of beer. He now lives in the Southwest ‘burbs with his wife where they invest their time and money in their two invisible children, Adequate Sleep and Fun Vacations, and explore different breweries along the way.

Matt makes the wort that all his coworkers dump down the drain. He makes sure it is nice and safe wort, but every time they just pour it down the drain. It makes the yeast happy at least. Also, he enjoys coffee and line drinking!

Bianca was born and raised in California, and quickly found a home at Omega after moving to Chicago. She’s our self-proclaimed “Queen of the Lab” and is a master at operating lab production. She loves homebrewing, candid photography, and her pride and joy is a puppy named Homer whom she’s trying to turn into the office dog (it’s not working out).

Demi was born and raised in the western Chicago suburbs and came to Omega with some fantastic brewery experience. In her spare time, you'll often find her researching/identifying plants, insects, fungi and various creepy crawlies. Her favorite creeper is her greenbottle blue tarantula (creatively) named Blue. She also prides herself on her postcard collection which she's attained by taking part in an international postcard exchange called Postcrossing.

After earning a degree in Theatre, Nick explored woodworking and guitar construction. He now spends his free time experimenting with food and beer recipes. He loves trying to learn something new every day. He loves operating the forklift for shipping and receiving tasks, and when it’s really time to focus strongly on large tasks, he loves to play the Bangles Greatest Hits and Nena 99 Luftballons albums.

Lauren is a Chicago native who came to us from the pharmaceutical industry. She enjoys homebrewing, cooking, making kombucha and sourdough bread (yay yeast!). Lauren is also an avid runner and she has a loud and loving cat named Tiny, and a spunky bearded dragon named Ziggy.

Laura earned her Ph.D. in Cell and Developmental Biology from Vanderbilt University, where she studied cellular responses to stress in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. From her Ph.D. work, she started her first role in the brewing industry as Head Brewer and Director of Quality Assurance at Tennessee Brew Works in Nashville before joining Great Central in Chicago and now as Omega Yeast's Director of R&D!

Nik (not short for anything, just simply…Nik) was born and raised in Chicago. He volunteers every year for CHIDITAROD and raises money to support hunger advocacy. He plays the guitar and piano in his free time and occasionally plays in a band called the HOT COPS!

Nicole is a Chicago native in her Senior year at Loyola University Chicago getting a degree in Biology and in Spanish Language. She has a passion for sustainable development and traveling. She enjoys playing with her Siberian husky mix named Luna and in her free time she studies, sleeps and studies some more!

Danielle is Dublin born and St. Louis raised. She strategizes with Katie and Mark on the St. Louis team. Other than deep gazes at data, she loves experiencing the world through food and drink, and first fell in love with beer while working in the Czech Republic. Her weekends are ruled by epic craft beer fueled craft projects and podcasts. She’s excited to learn more by test brewing with these yeastie geniuses.

Nicole spends her time supporting the administrative side of the lab. She is originally from the Detroit area. Nicole enjoys reading, going to shows, listening to The Best Show, and spending time with friends.

Katie is a St. Louis native and works out of our St. Louis business office.  Her hobbies include baking, napping, watching Teen Mom, and hanging out with her husband and toddler daughters, Lucy and Gwennie. Katie jumpstarts her day with a Nesquick chocolate milk every morning, and has for the past 15 years.

Chris (Chicago born, suburb raised) has been home brewing since 2013 and recently decided to make a career change into the craft beer industry. When he's not brewing, he's home cooking, pwning noobs while gaming, hanging with his pup Ralphie, or enjoying the occasional shower beer.

Haley is a proud St. Louis native and loves seeing the craft beer world grow both locally and nationally. When she’s not strategizing with the business team, she enjoys going to festivals and events with friends, home cooking meals, traveling and exploring new brews, and walking around her neighborhood with her spoiled doggo and partner in crime, Arlo and Tim respectively.

Jarrell is very silly and friendly. He loves to stay active playing sports (football, bowling, tennis) and watching them as well. He is a movie, tv show, anime, filmmaking, video game playing enigma who loves BEER! IPAs are his favorite and prefer the beer to be 5% or higher!

Author, poet, artist, designer, woodworker, music snob, video game connoisseur, year-round bicyclist, computer nerd, beer lover. Alex sort of just knows a little about a lot.

Alex has got a real fondness for fungi. He’s a microbiologist from Virginia Commonwealth University, who spent his undergrad researching wild yeast. Now he enjoys the stranger side of beer, always on the look out for something tart and funky.

Mike is our resident Master Brewer with a diploma from the World Brewing Academy. He grew up in Philadelphia, studied music in college, and plays in the band Secondhand Sausage. He loves reading on the beach in the summer months, and he has an orange munchkin cat named April Mae.

Marete, born and raised in upstate New York, studies Viticulture & Enology (wine!!) at Cornell University with a focus in microbiology research. When she's not busy nerding out over all different topics of science you can find her climbing, yoga-ing, dancing, cooking or watching Netflix with her pet snake.

Max attended Northern Michigan University and majored with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in photography. Although, his art focus changed when he became an Assistant Brewer shortly after graduation. He's been brewing ever since and is still slinging brews over at Rabid Brewing in Homewood as their Brewer. He loves brewing with Omega's yeast strains, especially the Norwegian Kveiks. He is also a death metal aficionado and video game junkie. Cheers!

Stephen is a graduate of the University of Illinois and an avid homebrewer. He is also a karaoke superstar as well as Omega's resident breakdance expert.

Samuel is a Wisconsinite turned Illinoisan. Having worked in macro, regional, and micro breweries in Milwaukee and Chicago over the past five years, Samuel knows beer at all its scales. He holds a degree in microbiology and can count cells in his sleep—but he really just likes hanging with his pets and mowing the lawn.

Brett is a St. Louis native, and our resident computer science mastermind. In his free time, he plays social kickball (too much for a grown adult) and takes care of his pet Shiba Inu named Calypso.  His favorite Omega Yeast strain is All the Bretts, obviously.

Lisa is a Chicago native with a degree in Photography and was previously the GM of a brewery. She has two dogs and a cat, but would likely have a horde of both if possible. She counts her time in between exploring new restaurants as "filler", and can be found sweating onions and garlic, preemptively, for the next Bon Appetit video that sparks her fancy. Hidden talent: knowing actors by movie, but never, and I repeat never, by name.

Sammie was born and raised in the St. Louis region and is a recent transplant to Chicago. Sammie has bounced around between the brewing and cocktail bartending industry since turning 21 and is excited to have found himself on the Omega team. When he's not at work you can find him working on his liqueur making blog, drinking lagers, or twiddling knobs on synthesizers.