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    Head Brewer

    Jon Rupp

    Head Brewer, Cedar Ridge Winery & Distillery

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    Portrait of Jon Rupp

    Portrait of Jon Rupp

    i. Biography

    Jon Rupp is a hospitality and food-business professional in Louisville, Kentucky, associated with Kern's Kitchen, the maker of Derby-Pie®. Bellarmine University’s profile says he created the title “The Pie Guy” to describe his broad responsibility across sales, strategy, and production support at the family business, and it also notes he is an MBA graduate from Bellarmine and earned a BS in Hospitality Management from Western Kentucky University.

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