Dropping out of college to make homemade beer didn’t look like a very good career move initially.
But Shane Welch, founder and brewmaster of Sixpoint Craft Ales, followed his passion, even though his parents were unenthusiastic about his plans to quit the University of Wisconsin-Madison to concentrate on brewing beer in the basement of his student apartment on Vilas Avenue.
….Sixpoint brews created by Welch and former college roommate Aaron Stumpf, 29, have become the toast of New York City.