About Grainbakers, Meet Caitlin
For many years, Caitlin owned a craft brewery and restaurants. Making the great Covid pivot, she relocated to sunny California. Now, she is a baking instructor, designer, oil painter, Mum and marketing geek by day. She works professionally as a Consultant with her husband, Jeff, at Crafted-Destinations, offering services in restaurants, breweries, tasting rooms and taproom design. In the evening, she teaches artisan breadmaking as Grainbakers, a mobile breadmaking school at small American Breweries. Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da ...
As a former craft brewery owner, Caitlin began teaching spent-grain breadmaking at her Boston brewery. Now, she travels coast-to-coast, sharing her artisan breadmaking, soft-pretzel making and specialty classes.
Grainbakers highlights the challenges small U.S. breweries face and energizes taprooms on quieter nights. Classes often sell out, with guests “making the dough rise” by buying beer, merchandise, food, and tipping staff. Grainbakers was created to bring meaningful, educational, FUN entertainment to these beautiful taprooms, drawing in new guests, increasing revenue, and forging lasting connections.
Woman-owned and operated, Grainbakers offers artisan spent grain breadmaking classes at your workplace, in your office and at small, independent breweries throughout the U.S., helping to support and celebrate America’s craft brewing community. If you are a brewery that would like to host, please send us an invitation.
Caitlin is a proud member of the Pink Boots Society.
Grainbakers Instructors and Teaching Assistants
Our Teaching Assistants bring experience, expertise, patience, kindness, Dad Jokes and unapologetic but awkward dance moves. We’re united by one belief: this isn’t about bread. It’s not about dough. It’s not even about baking. Grainbakers is about our guests and the experience we create together.
Collectively, we despise bread snobs. You won’t hear us rambling about hydration ratios, gram-perfect measurements, or sourdough-starter tips. (We could, but we won't.) We don’t speak in bread riddles. We keep it simple, fun, and totally un-intimidating.
We’re here to quiet the brain, soften the stress, and give your never-ending to-do list a well-deserved time-out. Every Grainbakers instructor and TA started as a guest who loved it so much they asked, “Wait… can I join the team?”
If you’d like to don the Grainbakers jacket and help people relax, laugh, and leave with warm hearts, reach out. We’d love to know you. Contact us!
