Category: Learning and Development
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News Falconer Foundation Offering Full Scholarship to Siebel Institute Concise Course
In collaboration with the Seibel Institute of Technology, the Glen Hay Falconer Foundation is offering a full-tuition brewing education scholarship in 2023. The scholarship is a full tuition grant and comes with a travel and lodging stipend.
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Learning and Development featured expert topic supported by Siebel Institute of Technology
For over 140 years, the Siebel Institute of Technology has attracted an extensive global following. Our alumni span more than 60 countries and are found in almost every major brewery on earth. Our on-campus classes include a mix of participants from breweries of all sizes who hail from locations all over the world, enhancing our student’s learning experience by exposing them to differences in culture, equipment, methods and beer styles.
News 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.
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News 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.
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News 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.
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News 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.
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News 2022 World Beer Cup Winners Announced
It’s a wrap. The 2022 Craft Brewers Conference (CBC) and World Beer Cup (WBC) have concluded in Minneapolis with a projected 10,000 attendees. The Brewers Association handed out 307 awards to breweries from 57 different states in the largest WBC to date with over 10,000 entries.
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News 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.
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News BA Announces 2022 Industry Award Winners at CBC
The Brewers Association announced the recipients of its 2022 Industry Awards. Five members of the brewing community were recognized and awarded for their dedication and service during the Craft Brewers Conference in Minneapolis, Minn. The Brewers Association has been recognizing individuals who inspire, defend, and innovate within the craft brewing industry since 1987. New this year was the addition of the Mentor of the Year Award to recognize volunteers who provided outstanding guidance through the fledgling Brewers Association mentorship program and championed those who experience barriers to access and advancement in their professional journeys.
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Sponsored 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.
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News CBC 2022 – The Minnesota Brewing Spirit, Getting Outside the Cities, and a Few Tips of My Own
Minnesota is often derided as a so-called fly-over state that folks on the coasts never consider visiting. And for many Minnesotans, that suits them just fine. They know the value of their home state, especially the gem that is the Twin Cities. The same applies to Minnesota made beer. “Our breweries are relatively unassuming, maybe unpretentious,” says Jess Talley, the recently minted director of the Minnesota Brewers Guild. “That’s kind of a Minnesota cultural humility there that I think a lot of people may know as a stereotype of Minnesotans. Our brewers take a lot of pride in their work. And they should, we have a lot of amazing, award-winning beers here. But you’re not going to see a lot of Minnesotans gloating about that.”
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News Evan Sallee of Fair State Brewing Cooperative’s Guide To CBC Eating And Drinking
If you’re traveling to the Craft Brewers Conference this year, Northeast Minneapolis should be near the top of your list for areas to visit. Also known as NE and sometimes Nordeast (in local parlance or for those celebrating with the Schell’s Brewery beer of the same name), this neighborhood boasts about a dozen solid breweries, many within a short walk of one another, along with great distilleries and beer bars. Just over the Mississippi River from downtown Minneapolis, Northeast is a bustling commercial and arts district that still possesses much of its original 19th and early 20th century architecture, including grain silos and mills.
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Expert Topic THRIVE – Your Roadmap to a CBC Experience that Fosters Safe, Inclusive, and Equitable Cultures
THRIVE at this year’s 2022 Craft Brewers Conference is a roadmap to a CBC experience that fosters safe, inclusive, and equitable cultures where everyone in the craft brewing community can thrive. It includes a variety of seminars and workshops, a screening of the documentary film ‘One Pint at a Time’ and other activities.
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Expert Topic Making the Most of the Craft Brewers Conference: How to Follow Up on the Educational Experience
There is a lot of planning that goes into making sure you get the most out of the educational experience at the Craft Brewers Conference. Selecting tracks and seminars and making sure the schedule works to get from one room to the next with plenty of time. Notebooks are ready, pencils are sharpened.
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Expert Topic 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.
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Expert Topic Chuck’s Picks. Top Technical Seminars at the Craft Brewers Conference from Chuck Skypeck
Chuck Skypeck has a brewing resume that’s almost as long as his hair. In 1992, he opened Boscos, Tennessee’s first brewpub. Following that success, he opened Ghost River Brewing in Memphis. Chuck’s love and dedication to the craft brewing industry earned him the Brewers Association Recognition Award in 2006.
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News 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.
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