About us
Profs and Pints brings professors and other college instructors into bars, cafes, and other venues to give fascinating talks or to conduct instructive workshops. They cover a wide range of subjects, including history, politics, popular culture, horticulture, literature, creative writing, and personal finance. Anyone interested in learning and in meeting people with similar interests should join. Lectures are structured to allow at least a half hour for questions and an additional hour for audience members to meet each other. Admission to Profs and Pints events requires the purchase of tickets, either in advance (through the link provided in event descriptions) or at the door to the venue. Many events sell out in advance.
Although Profs and Pints has a social mission--expanding access to higher learning while offering college instructors a new income source--it is NOT a 501c3. It was established as a for-profit company in hopes that, by developing a profitable business model, it would be able to spread to other communities much more quickly than a nonprofit dependent on philanthropic support. That said, it is welcoming partners and collaborators as it seeks to build up audiences and spread to new cities. For more information email profsandpints@hotmail.com.
Thank you for your interest in Profs and Pints.
Regards,
Peter Schmidt, Founder, Profs and Pints
Upcoming events
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Profs & Pints Alameda: How Beer Shaped Civilization
Faction Brewing, 2501 Monarch St, Alameda, CA, USProfs and Pints Alameda presents: “How Beer Shaped Civilization,” a look at beer brewing’s evolution and influence on the world from prehistory to the present, with Jonathan Hughes, brewing microbiology expert and former director of food and agricultural programs at UC Davis Continuing and Professional Education.
[Tickets available only online, at https://events.ticketleap.com/tickets/profsandpints/alameda-beer-shaped-civilization .]
Take in the long view of those suds in your glass by coming to Faction Brewing for a talk on how beer brewing has changed over human history and impacted the world around you.
Your guide on this amazing scholarly journey will be Jonathan Hughes, who has taught brewing and related microbiology at the University of California Davis and Sacramento State University, served as director of brewing and sensory science for UC Davis’s continuing education arm, and overseen quality control at Heretic Brewing.
We’ll travel back in time more than 10,000 years to look at how malting and brewing may have gotten started and how it almost certainly spurred the development of modern agriculture.
From there we’ll look at how the introduction of hops into beer upended the European economy, at how unique water profiles around the world led to specific beer styles, and at the origins of ale and lager.
Finally, we’ll look at how beer and brewing gave rise to a host of inventions and far-reaching scientific discoveries.
You’ll emerge glad to have had a chance to drink in such knowledge. (Advance tickets: $13.50 plus processing fees. Doors: $17, or $15 with a student ID. Listed time is for doors. The talk starts 30 minutes later.)
Image: Part of an ancient Egyptian painting from about 1300 BCE that depicts a Syrian mercenary drinking beer through a straw (Egyptian Museum of Berlin / Wikipedia).
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Past events
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