Sign-up to receive our Newsletter! Click Here to view our current Newsletters »		Main :: Our Crew :: Featured Crew :: Rachael Juzeler Rachael: Rolling stone stops in Alaska Rachael Juzeler is a talented artist, writer and tinkerer, in addition to her beer talents. Rachael Juzeler was a rolling stone. "I drove around for years, and wherever my car broke down I stayed," she said. She lived in Portland, New York and Tucson, never holding a job for more than seven months until she began working for Alaskan Brewing Co. in 1997. That seven-month work stint was out of necessity-someone had bet her a bottle of whiskey that she couldn't hold a job for more than six months, "So I proved him wrong and then moved on," Rachael said. She landed in Juneau, Alaska, after a friend told her it was the most beautiful place in the world. "He was right," Rachael said. Her first job was making caviar, spending hours rubbing salmon roe through screens. The job was demanding, sometimes requiring 30-hour shifts. Rachael needed to find permanent housing and work to stay in Juneau. On April 17, 1997, she found both. "It was a great birthday present," she said. She began working at Alaskan Brewing Co. as a packager, and became a brewer six months later. Degrees in ceramics and natural history may not seem as though they would be good preparation for brewing, but then again you're not Rachael. "I love the process of brewing," which she says is an historic art. After seven years of brewing she became a quality assurance analyst, where her aptitude for recognizing patterns comes in handy. Alaskan Brewing encourages its crew to become beer judges, and Rachael jumped at the chance. She teaches beer judging classes and helps organize one to two homebrew festivals each year. Rachael is a homebrewer herself. She brews meads, a favorite wedding gift for friends. That's because it's believed that the term honeymoon is derived from an ancient Babylonian tradition in which a father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead, which is a honey wine, he could drink for the month after the wedding. Rachael has many other interests that keep her busy. "I like making things. I have project ADD [Attention Deficit Disorder]." Projects include restoring her house and yard and creating art, utilizing ceramics and mixed media. She usually exhibits her work at one art show a year, and holds the Autumn Festival street fair she founded in 2002. She also recently began writing Bending the Elbow, a beer column in the Juneau Empire. Despite her stability in housing and work, Rachael is still a rolling stone. She loves to travel the state and fully enjoy what it means to be Alaskan, from subsistence fishing in Kasilof to kayaking in Berner's Bay. Of her early roaming days she says, "I was looking for something I liked." And she found it in Juneau at Alaskan Brewing Co., where she has worked for more than 10 years. "I just love my job; it keeps me intrigued." << Back to Featured Crew

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