Category: Beverage Ingredients
A wide range of information pertaining to ingredients used in the brewing process.
- Hops 147
- Malt 32
- Other Ingredients 27
Beverage Ingredients featured expert topic supported by California Craft Brewers Association
The 2024 California Craft Beer Summit is the most important event of the year for California Brewers or anyone interested in building their business in the craft beer industry. The 2024 Summit will be held in Sacramento on March 12-14, 2024.
News Craft Maltsters Guild Announces 2021 Malt Cup Award Winners
2021 was the first time the Craft Maltsters Guild has hosted their annual conference virtually, and the first year the guild opened up the awards competition to international malthouses. 28 malthouses from seven countries, 17 states, and one province submitted a total of 46 entries spanned 29 different malt barley varieties.
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News US Hop Production Down in 2020
Production for Idaho, Oregon, and Washington in 2020 totaled 104 million pounds, down 7% from the 2019 crop of 112 million pounds, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). The report also said that the 2020 value of production for the United States totaled $619 million, down 3% from the previous year.
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News Oregon Issues New Guidance for Hard Seltzer
Hard seltzers are prompting some states to reevaluate where the product “fits in” to the regulatory structure given that seltzers are neither malt based or fruit based. Recently, Oregon issued clarification pertaining to the classification of hard seltzers in the state. The guidance impacts the majority of hard seltzers in the market, most notably on excise tax and licensing needed to produce or sell hard seltzers in the state.
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News Tips on Making Alcoholic Ice Cream
As the pandemic forces brewers to innovate to stay afloat, a growing trend among craft brewers is to utilize alcohol in ice cream and freezer pops, which can be sold in the retail freezer or direct to consumer at the brewery. As this practice gains popularity, more states are approving the manufacture and sale of these items.
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Expert Topic Record Number of Acres Planted for Hope – Barley Crop Also Up
Farmers planted 2.80 million acres of barley for the 2020 crop year, up 3 percent from the previous year. Nationwide, 97 percent of the barley acreage was sown by June 7th with 75 percent of the barley acreage being reported in good to excellent condition.
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Expert Topic Webinar to Discuss Real-Time Fermentation Monitoring
Precision Fermentation will be presenting a special webinar on July 14, 2020, hosted by the Master Brewers Association of the Americas in a webinar titled “Leveraging Real-Time Fermentation Monitoring to Elevate Product Quality and Operational Efficiency.”
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Expert Topic Hop Growers Pull-Back Due to Reduced Demand
Hop growers had predicted moderate growth in the hop harvest and in sales this year but have now pulled back their estimates to flat over 2019 because of the drop in beer sales during the pandemic and the expected slow return to normal in the on-premise business.
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News Hong Kong Brewery Brews up CBD Beer
The use of CBD in any food or drink product, including alcohol, is illegal in the U.S. And even though the potential health benefits of CBD are getting more recognition these days, in most Asian countries it is still seen as a drug and somewhat taboo. But it is legal. And a new start-up, is not brewing and marketing a CBD-infused beer.
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