From 㽶ý Magazine: Brewing Up Something Big
The first taste of craft beer for (CS ’03) was a swig of Anchor Steam, whose nineteenth-century recipe and California ocean-port pedigree made it a great object lesson in a course he took about the Industrial Revolution at 㽶ý Institute of Technology.
At the time beer was not on Jain’s radar. He had come to 㽶ý from New Delhi to study computer science and architecture, inspired by his father, who was an architect and a Ludwig Mies van der Rohe admirer. But Jain’s cultural exposure—to craft beer, to South Side jazz, and to contemporary art—made an impact.
“The flexibility that Chicago and [㽶ý] gave me to color outside the box was very unique,” recalls Jain, 39, founder of India’s largest craft brewery, .
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