Category: Production
News Craft Maltsters Guild to Hold 2024 Conference in Davis, Calif. – Seeking Speaker Proposals
The Craft Maltsters Guild has selected the University of California Davis Conference Center in Northern California as the location for the 2024 Craft Malt Conference that will be held on February 23 and 24, 2024.
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Expert Topic Sustainability and Hops, Protecting Waterways and Preserving Beer
The Pacific Northwest is home to America’s most important hop producing region, one that locals work every day to promote and protect. Changes to the climate and concern over preserving the future viability of the storied agricultural land is leading farmers, brewers, and conservationists to team up to better inform drinkers of the importance of shielding its water sources.
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Expert Topic Sustainability Efforts in Craft Malt
Conservation begins on the land. As the craft malt space continues to make inroads with beer, many of the farmers are showcasing their sustainability efforts. This helps drive deeper connections with clients and customers and shows what small batch farming can really do when it comes to meaningful growth.
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Sponsored Documenting Beer Flavor for the Professional Brewer
No matter how often we drink a beer, it’s not often we actually taste it. Our palates are the most critical instrument at our disposal, yet they are often underutilized or misused. How can you use lab techniques and instrumentation in conjunction with your senses to develop a quality assurance program for your brewery?
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Sponsored What is Brix level and why does it matter to brewers and distillers?
Why do we crave sweetness?
In his classic book Sweetness and Power, anthropologist Sidney Mintz speculated that every human culture has a word for “sweet.” You might even say the “sweet tooth” is a universal human trait. Why do we crave sweetness? Scientists suggest it’s because our most energy-rich food sources, especially fruits, vegetables, and milk, are also rich in natural sugars. In other words, your sweet tooth is a survival mechanism.
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News Patagonia Partners with Breweries to Brew Beer with Innovative New Sustainable Grain
Working with Patagonia Provisions, the food and beverage division of the famed outdoor apparel company, Aslan Brewing in Bellingham, WA has brewed a beer with Kernza grain, a “regenerative perennial grain, has the potential to transform the brewing industry.”
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News Six Craft Brewery Equipment Suppliers Merge into Lotus Beverage Alliance
Six U.S. craft beverage equipment suppliers have merged in a $100 million deal to create Lotus Beverage Alliance. The six merged companies are Alpha Brewing Operations, GW Kent, Twin Monkeys, Stout Tanks and Kettles, Brewmation and Automated Extractions.
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Sponsored Robust Centrifuge System Improves Speed and Efficiency for Cincinnati Brewery – Flottweg Separation Technology Case Study
With the need for increased efficiency, and capacity, the historic Rhinegeist Brewery made a critical switch in 2016 from lenticular filtration and a small centrifuge to a larger, more robust Flottweg centrifuge. The switch in separation technologies immediately helped the brewery run faster and smoother and with larger quantities.
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Expert Topic Beyond the Basics in Brewery Sanitation
By now, anyone even remotely associated with the brewing industry should know that sanitation is the key to success. Not only does it show a commitment to quality but it also keeps customers safe. There are tried and true standard operating procedures that good breweries follow to keep unwanted germs and microbes at bay, but what does the future of sanitation look like?
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Sponsored A Deep Dive Into Lager – Traditional Beer Style and Modern Yeast Perspectives
Learn the essentials of lager beer from one of Germany’s most respected beer institutes. Join Mathias Hutzler from the Research Center Weihenstephan for Brewing and Food Quality (Technical University of Munich) for a discussion of lager beer history and production methods followed by a presentation of modern lager yeast and fermentation solutions by Eric Abbott (Lallemand Brewing).
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Expert Topic Putting Sanitation First in the Brewery
Once, a few years ago, a friend was sharing a experience after visiting New Glarus Brewing Company. The brewery was so clean, they said, that you could drop a fried egg on the floor and pick it up a few minutes later and eat it without worry. The surfaces were so clean that no grit would touch the egg.
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Expert Topic Making a Brewery Pasteurization Decision
Pasteurization has been in the brewing space since it was invented more than 150 years or so, but it is only in the last several years that small brewers have begun to embrace the technology. This is for a variety of reasons including consumer popular recipes that benefit from the process as well as increased availability and scalability on the marketplace.
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Expert Topic Deciding on New vs. Pre-owned Equipment
Running a brewery, even without designs on growing the overall footprint, output, or distribution, means having the right equipment in place and working properly. Over time the need will come to add or replace the everyday equipment that keeps a brewery running properly.
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Expert Topic Hoses in the Brewery – Finding the Right Type and Proper Maintenance
There is perhaps no more utilitarian object in a brewery than the lowly hose. Used to transfer beer from place to place, where gleaming stainless steel piping does not go, or clean systems, brewery hoses rarely get much love or thought. Yet the role they play is crucial and it’s important to give some thought before investing in them and how to maintain them.
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Expert Topic Setting Up a QC Lab with Neva Parker of White Labs
My favorite part of any brewery tour is seeing the lab. It’s not that I’m a science nerd or even particularly conversant in what goes on in these scientific sanctuaries. A lab is a sign that a brewery takes quality serious enough to invest resources in pursuit of it.
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Expert Topic Adding a Pilot Brewery
When walking through a brewery, attention is often paid to the workhorse brewhouse, the large-barrel mash tun doing a yeoman’s lift and the large fermenters where the magic is happening. More and more these days there are little brew kits tucked in a corner or off to the side that are not as flashy, but are doing the heavy research and development lift, resulting in beers that could one day get a full commercial release. The pilot brewery.
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News High Country Hop Festival to Celebrate Australian 2023 Hop Harvest
High Country Hop, the annual celebration of the Australian hop harvest is returning in its ninth year with Firestone Walker brewmaster Matt Brynildson joining some of Australia’s top craft brewers. Brynildson will be the keynote speaker at the event’s technical symposium ahead of the festival.
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