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Anheuser-Busch Newark Brewery

Plant Manager
Bob Rogers

Bob RogersBob Rogers joined Anheuser-Busch as an assistant plant manager with Corporate Operations in 1998. In 1999, he moved to the Anheuser-Busch brewery in St. Louis, Mo. as the assistant plant manager. After a year in St. Louis, Rogers moved to the Anheuser-Busch brewery in Williamsburg, Va. where he held the position of operations manager. Within a year Rogers was named assistant plant manager for the Williamsburg brewery.

In 2004, he took over as plant manager for the Anheuser-Busch brewery in Newark, New Jersey.

Rogers began his brewing career in 1979 as a quality control analyst for Miller Brewing Company. While working for Miller Brewing Co. he held several supervisor positions in the maintenance and production division.

Rogers holds a bachelor’s degree in industrial technology from Western Carolina University. He’s originally from Greensboro, N.C.

He resides in Newark with his wife, Cindy, and is an avid golfer.


Resident Brewmaster
J. Scott Mennen

J. Scott MennenScott Mennen joined Anheuser-Busch in 1987 in the Corporate Engineering department in St. Louis, Mo., where he helped execute capital projects in the Newark, N.J.; Williamsburg, Va.; and St. Louis breweries.

In 1991, he joined the Williamsburg Brewing department as brewing group manager.

Prior to becoming brewmaster in the Anheuser-Busch brewery in Newark in March 2001, Mennen was the senior assistant brewmaster in the St. Louis brewery.

Mennen is a Nashville, Tenn. native and earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Tennessee in 1987. He and his wife, Marji, have a son, Douglas, and a daughter, Amanda.