Nathan Sanborn is the co-owner and director of brewing operations at Rising Tide Brewing Company. Growing up during the early days of the American craft brewing renaissance, he began homebrewing in 1994 and put his toes into the professional brewing waters in October 2010, founding Rising Tide with a 1-barrel brewhouse. Without a formal brewing education, he has learned largely through the school of hard knocks and the support of his generous colleagues in the Maine craft brewing community. He now manages all brewing operations at Rising Tide’s 15-barrel clean beer brewery, offsite warehouse, and newly opened wild beer facility, overseeing a team of 20 with an annual production expected to top 5,000 barrels in 2017.