The Oregon State University graduate, who studied food science and fermentation, launched the class last fall after he was approached by UD out of the blue during his time at 1937. The idea of teaching brewing intrigued Adelson, who once taught for Apple and enjoyed it before getting into brewing.
Soon, he was writing the “from grain to glass” course and welcoming its first students. He wrote the class with this in mind: “If I was going to hire these people, what would I want them to know?”
One of his spring semester students was Wilmington’s John Cordey, a former high school teacher who moved into the food and beverage industry in 2019, pouring beers and giving tours part time at Dogfish Head’s Milton brewery before managing Tired Hands Brewing Co. in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania.
