Andrew Roberts
Efeste Winery
Leander
6
years of professional experience
Experienced beverage industry professional with 9 years in manufacturing and packaging, specializing in beer, wine, and cider production. Expertise in optimizing recipes and enhancing processes. Strong skill set ensures high-quality outcomes, contributing to team success and continuous improvement.
Work History
Cellar Manager
3 Months- Managed daily cellar operations, ensuring adherence to safety and quality standards.
- Making wine deliveries for the greater Seattle area in the company van.
- Equipment and grounds maintenance and repair.
- Building and shipping bottle club allocations.
- All sanitary wine movements (Topping, racking, blending).
- Quality control and sensory analysis.
- CIP/SIP of all tanks and equipment that makes contact with the wine.
- Assisted with setting up and working winery events.
Cellarman
9 Months- Operated and maintained winery equipment for production processes, doubled as a packaging operator.
- Operating, cleaning and maintenance of a GAI Prospero bottling line.
- Experience with crossflow and plate filtration.
- All harvest fruit receiving, processing and subsequent sanitary wine movements. (Punchdowns/pump-overs, topping, racking, barrel downs, rack & returns and blending).
- Heavy equipment operation including bladder and basket presses, augers, elevators, crusher/destemmers, electric pallet-jacks and forklifts. Minor equipment repair.
- Pulling and assembling distribution orders.
- Cellar cleaning, organization and maintenance.
- Sensory analysis and regular tastings.
- Wine analysis using Sentia and Anton Paar DMA.
Assistant Brewer
5 Years 1 Month- In charge of day-to-day brewing and cellar operations, keeping tasks running efficiently and guiding/training jr. cellar staff. Warehouse organization.
- All aspects of beer production from raw ingredients to packaged product. Including recipe development and updating existing recipes.
- CIP and SIP Protocol for all brewing, fermentation and aging vessels.
- Operation, cleaning and maintenance of a 15bbl Premier Stainless brewing system and Premier Stainless keg-washer.
- Monitoring fermentations(Gravity/pH), blending, dry hopping, tank purging with co2, clarification, plate filtration, and carbonation.
- Analysis with Anton Paar cboxQC, can piercer and DMA.
- Operating, cleaning, maintaining and minor repairs on a Cask canning solutions canning line and various manual bottling lines.
- Experience producing and packaging alternate beverages such as hard seltzer, mead, sparkling water, cold brew coffee.
- Experience with barrel aging programs for both clean and wild beer.
- Front of house experience, bartending, food running and setting up/working brewery events.
Education
No Degree
Skills
Beverage equipment sanitation
Forklift and Pallet-jack
Operating bottling and canning equipment
Heavy equipment operation
Forklift operation
Wine analysis
Delivery driving
Minor equipment repair and maintenance
Interpersonal communication
Good safety practices
Fast learner
Great people skills + positive workplace attitude
Interests
Photography
Cycling/hiking
Timeline
Cellar Manager
Efeste Winery
05.2026 - 08.2026Read More
Cellarman
Woodinville Custom Wines
08.2025 - 05.2026Read More
Assistant Brewer
Sideward Brewing Co.
02.2020 - 03.2025Read More
Homeschool
No Degree
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