From ñ 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 Illinois Institute of Technology.
At the time beer was not on Jain’s radar. He had come to ñ 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 [ñ] gave me to color outside the box was very unique,” recalls Jain, 39, founder of India’s largest craft brewery, .
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