Student loves beer, brother and girlfriend

Zack Taylor is bearded and ambitious.

He is also from Savannah, Ga.

Having graduated from high school in 2007, Taylor enjoyed a brief stint at the Oconee campus of Gainesville State College. He wrote for "The Voice," GSC's student-run newspaper.

After transferring to the University of Georgia, Taylor applied to the Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the end of 2009 and never looked back.

He has been writing for the Red and Black for a year.

Taylor, 22, has a brother, Nick, 20, who cycles for the University Cycling team. According to Taylor, Nick is a "tall, skinny #$@*#&" who rides a $5,000 bicycle that weighs between five to 10 pounds, depending on whether or not the wheels are attached.
Taylor one day hopes to share a beer with Nick when he is of legal age.

Living with Taylor is his girlfriend of four and a half years, Carissa Pfeifer. Carissa is an art major at the University of Georgia, and designed the logo for Taylor's beer brewing start-up, "Noble Beard."

Taylor has brewed eight batches of beer in the past eight months. His venture, Noble Beard, aims to create tasty beers with names that are not noble at all, with each named beer symbolizing “the epitome of a dark joke,” Taylor said.

His best-reviewed beer, known only as “Fetal Alcohol Syndrome,” is a worthy example of the work that Taylor pursues.

Taylor’s beer brewing hobby blends perfectly with his career ambitions, as he wishes to one day be a beer journalist. If the beer route does not lead anywhere, Taylor says that his father would like him to become a lawyer.

Creativity and the right tools, however, will likely conspire to bring forth his frothy dreams, as Taylor is currently working on a sour cherry ale, technically called a “lambic beer.”

And the name of this cherry of a beer? “Underaged Cherry.”