Home Brews
Packet People, Part 9: Packet Studios talks with Philip Cristiano
Packet People is a series where Ty Gibbons explores a different side of life of his fellow Packeteers and records their conversation. In this edition, Ty Gibbons, talks to Philip Cristiano, Senior Production Engineer at Packet.
I felt pretty good arriving at Philip’s iconic Fishtown neighborhood in Philadelphia. For one, I had left behind three feet of snow and frigid Vermont temperatures for a glorious early spring afternoon in Philly; but moreover, I was going to spend the next few hours learning about (and sampling) home-brew beer.
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Philip is a home-brew aficionado. He led me down a narrow set of stairs and walked me through his basement, which was neatly stockpiled with vats, pumps, kettle burners and other accoutrements. After the tour he poured us a couple pints (my favorite sound from the session was the fizzing and sipping of the foamy head), and we stepped out onto his sunny back patio for drinking and more conversation. We used a white bucket (another beer-brewing tool) as an improvised patio table; I liked the way our pint glasses looked on it and snapped a picture during a break in the recording.
“I enjoy the part of sharing a beer and talking with them.”
Ty Gibbons is the Creative Director of Packet Studios. When not in the recording studio, he can be found tinkering at his woodshop in Marlboro, VT.
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