Catherine McGuinness, Quality Assurance Manager, Stony Creek Brewery.

Branford’s Stony Creek Brewery hired Catherine McGuinness to lead its Quality Control/Quality Assurance (QA) department. A Quality Assurance Manager, she is responsible for maintaining and ensuring the standards for the brewery’s award-winning beers. McGuinness comes to Stony Creek Brewery from Yale University, where she was a doctoral candidate in Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry. She studied the dynamic behaviors of the cytoskeleton and the network of protein structures present in all cells, including brewer’s yeast. “We couldn’t be more thrilled to have Catherine joining our team,” said Andy Schwartz, Brewmaster for Stony Creek Brewery. “She really fits our Stony Creek family perfectly. She really exemplifies our ‘Aggressively Laid Back’ motto; passionate and driven within the scientific community, while maintaining a rich life when not on the clock.”