Brewery Sanitation

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Date / Time: Wednesday, April 22nd, 2020 at 3:00 pm EDT - 3:50 pm EDT (add to calendar)
Event type: Event held online
Price: Free
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Proper sanitation of brewery equipment is paramount to making great tasting, fresh and flavorful beer, batch after batch. Dana Johnson, Technical Director of Craft Brewing at Birko Corporation, will share his knowledge and thoughts on all aspects of brewery cleaning and sanitizing from brewhouse cleaning, fermenter cleaning, brite tank cleaning, keg cleaning, packaging equipment cleaning, and exterior equipment and environmental cleaning.

This talk will detail which types of chemicals work the best, how much to use, how long to use them, and which ones are safer and better for the metal than others. Stainless steel passivation methods for both new and existing equipment will also be covered. This presentation will be followed by a Q&A session where brewers can ask specific questions about their procedures and processes without judgement or bias.

Speaker: Dana Johnson, Birko Corporation

Bio: As the Technical Director of Craft Brewing for Birko, Dana consults craft breweries, wineries and distilleries on food safety and sanitation practices. He has more than 20 years of experience serving Birko’s brew customers and is known in the industry as one of the leading voices on sanitation.

He has formulated many Birko products including the patented Acid Brite #2, Brute Plus, Way-Vos, Cell-R-Mastr and invented and consigned the keg cleaning with acid and detergent only patent (Ultra Niter and X-Puma) to Birko in 2012.

A home-brewer since 1989, Dana had authored numerous articles for Zymurgy, The New Brewer and other brewery trade publications and a frequent speaker at industry events. He is a member of the Brewers Association Safety Subcommittee, (SSC) the current MBAA Webinar Committee Chair, Safety Committee Member, and Technical Co-Chair of the Rocky Mountain District of the MBAA (Master Brewers Association of the Americas).

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