BRUSSELS: New Belgium Brewing will donate $1 million to the Colorado State University fermentation science and technology program to renovate facilities.
Kim Jordan, CEO and co-founder of New Belgium Brewing, announced earlier this month that she will be donating $500,000 personally to the program. This will be accompanied by another $500,000 over the next five years from New Belgium’s philanthropy wing.
The funds will be used to build a new laboratory in the Gifford building, scheduled to be complete August 2015.
Jeff Callaway, the director of industry outreach for the fermentation and science technology program, said this is a good investment for the future of the program.
They’ve named a lab the New Belgium Fermentation Science and Technology Laboratory, which includes our pilot brewery,” Callaway said. “It includes a chemistry and microbiology analytical lab, a small kitchen, as well as a sensory and multipurpose meeting room.”
Once the lab is built, any money left over will be used to help sustain the program, according to Mike Pagliassotti, head of the Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition.
