 As a college student in the 1980s at Hellenic College in Brookline, Nadim began making his own beer in the basement of the dorm where he lived.He subsequently took up formal studies in brewing at UC Davis in California, eventually graduating with a master's degree.The Taybeh Brewery was funded entirely with $1.5 million of the Khoury family's own money, as banks refused to lend to them.