Michael James Jackson Foundation Now Accepting Scholarship Applications – Deadline is July 1st
The Michael James Jackson Foundation is now accepting new scholarship applications. The deadline to apply is July 1st 2022
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Mental Health: How to Take Better Care of Your Employee
The beer industry has been slow to recognize the challenges to employee mental health posed by its unique set of characteristics. Any job can be stressful, but mix in long hours in industrial work spaces and routine and frequent access to alcohol and it is easy to see how mental health and substance use issues can arise.
Read more...Eastern Washington University to Launch Certificate Program for Craft Brewing Industry
Eastern Washington University and No-Li Brewhouse are partnering to launch a professional certificate program for the craft beer industry.
Read more...How To Create Or Improve Your In-house Tasting Panel
Creating an active, engaged in-house tasting and sensory program should be top of mind for brewers of every size. You spend so much time planning, brewing, cleaning, and often just trying to survive, outsourcing the beer sensory element of your business to consumers in your taproom or even machine or lab testing can be tempting. While there is great value in using lab work or your frontline tasters as part of your overall mechanism for ensuring product quality, it remains crucial to have a diverse array of brewery employees routinely taste and assess the quality and consistency of the beers that you produce. Let’s take a look at some key points in creating a tasting and sensory program.
Read more...Why and How to Encourage Outside Training for Your Brewery Employees
Your team is set, and the business is humming along. Employees seem happy, the customers are keeping the coffers full and the tanks busy and for the first time in a long time you, as an owner, have a moment of peace and calm. Then reality sets in and thoughts of the future creep into your brain.
Read more...Developing a Successful Mentorship Program for Employees
The American craft beer industry likes to talk about being small and independent and removed from big business culture. Living in the realm of small business it cultivates a scrappy and local image that resonates with a lot of consumers.
Read more...Staff Retention – How to Keep Employees for the Long Haul
Small companies will put a lot of work into hiring employees. The successful businesses will spend time researching the marketplace to come up with competitive wage and benefits to attract the best candidates.
Read more...Fostering Brewery Creativity
Beer is a dynamic beverage and even outside of the glass, from taproom experiences to packaging, the industry has fostered an air of creativity that should bring smiles to customer’s faces.
Read more...Extended Time Off – Offering Brewery Employees a Sabbatical
The human condition is designed for wandering and exploration. To expand the mind, horizons, and to collect experiences as we hurdle through life. We are also the only species that pays to live on the planet and as such need employment to keep us stocked with basic necessities and shelter. At times the desires and needs can be in conflict.
Read more...What to Consider in Starting a Brewery Career
Every beer drinker has been there at least once. It’s a great day at the local taproom. Pints are flowing and everything just tastes great. A sense of desire creeps up and the entrepreneurial spirit rises. The idea to open a brewery of your own, or at least work at one, is born.
Read more...Glen Hay Falconer Foundation Offering Scholarship to Seibel Institute
In collaboration with the Seibel Institute of Technology, the Glen Hay Falconer Foundation is offering a full-tuition brewing education scholarship in 2022. The scholarship is a full tuition grant and comes with a travel and lodging stipend.
Read more...Sergio Manancero of La Doña Cervecería’s Guide To CBC Eating And Drinking
The boom in new breweries throughout the Twin Cities has offered brewers the opportunity to eschew generalized businesses in favor of focusing their efforts on more specialized concepts. A 5-minute drive west of downtown Minneapolis, you will find the colorful La Doña Cervecería, the first Latin-influenced craft brewery in Minnesota. Founded by former Marine Sergio Manancero, La Doña opened its location in 2018. The brewery and taproom offers live music, salsa dancing evenings, an art gallery, and even a 3v3 soccer league on its own short pitch. Bright murals light the cinder block space at La Doña, which also offers tacos and other food from its in-house kitchen. As the Craft Brewers Conference falls on Cinco de Mayo, the brewery will be hosting specialty events as well.
Read more...How to Maximize Your Employee’s Craft Brewers Conference Experience
Business trips are not as common in the beer industry as other industries, so as the annual Craft Brewers Conference and BrewExpo America approaches next month breweries that are sending employees to Minneapolis should take the time to implement company policies and expectations to make sure the conference is a professional success as well as a bit of fun.
Read more...Jill Pavlak of Urban Growler Brewing’s Guide To CBC Minneapolis Eating And Drinking
A decade ago, you could reliably navigate local beer scenes with the help of a few beer websites. With nearly 10,000 breweries in operation today, it’s challenging to distinguish between them as a visitor to a new city or state. Which breweries are must visits? Where should I eat? Are there tourist destinations I can’t miss?
Read more...BrewExpo America 2022: Making an Action Plan to Efficiently Visit the Expo Floor
The BrewExpo America takes place next month in Minneapolis, part of the annual Craft Brewers Conference. Organized by the Brewers Association they call it the largest brewing conference and trade show in the United States and the “perfect opportunity to meet leaders in the national and international brewing arena.”
Read more...Join the Michael James Jackson Foundation Matching Fundraising Challenge Drive!
The Michael James Jackson Foundation for Brewing and Distilling (MJF) is teaming up with ProBrewer to drive a $100,000 matching fundraising challenge by Brooklyn Brewery that will launch today and culminate May 2nd at the THRIVE sessions for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion during the Craft Brewers Conference.
Read more...Falconer Foundation Offering Concise Course Scholarship to Siebel Institute
In collaboration with the Seibel Institute of Technology, the Glen Hay Falconer Foundation is offering a full-tuition brewing education scholarship in 2022. The scholarship is a full tuition grant and comes with a travel and lodging stipend.
Read more...Falconer Foundation Offering Full Scholarship to American Brewers Guild
In collaboration with the American Brewers Guild, the Falconer Foundation is offering a full-tuition scholarship to the Guild’s Intensive Brewing Science & Engineering program.
Read more...Texas A&M and Revolver Brewing Create Brewing Scholarship
A newly established partnership between Revolver Brewing Company and the Texas A&M University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Department of Food Science and Technology will help minority and underrepresented students pursue careers in the brewing industry.
Read more...Yakima Chief Hop & Brew School Will Again Be Virtual
Yakima Chief Hops will hold their 2021 Hop & Brew School from Aug. 30 through Sept. 3 and will again include both hop industry insights and technical brewing seminars.
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