Faculty and Extended Faculty

Lindsay is the Founding Partner and CSO of DraughtLab and Adjunct Sensory Professor for the UC Davis Master Brewers Program. She has 15 years of experience building sensory training programs and has worked with hundreds of food and beverage companies to implement their own. With DraughtLab she has published multiple industry-standard lexicons like the Beer Flavor Map^TM and has made Sensory science accessible for companies of all sizes and levels of expertise. Along with her daily work, she is involved in the brewing industry as an international beer judge, instructor for the Siebel Institute, and author of seven ASBC Sensory evaluation methods. She believes flavor is the most important factor in determining food and beverage quality, and has set her sights on continuing to develop tools focused on helping businesses use their senses to inform everyday production decisions.