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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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Sponsored How Energy Costs Can Drain your Craft Brewing Profits
Let’s face it. Craft brewing is super cool. I mean, where else can you roll up your sleeves and create something tasty, bubbly and so socially accepted? But as sexy as this artisan world is, it comes complete with its energy-sucking demons that not only cost you a pile of money but are also bad for the environment. And you know who’s not going to appreciate that? The Gen Zers and millennials who make up the lion’s share of your craft beer drinking target market.
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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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Sponsored Best Practices for Crowler™ Filling and Sealing
Crowler™ canning started as a practical solution to offer to-go beer without many of the issues of glass growler. The bottles are big and heavy, tough to clean, and once opened the entire 64oz needs to be completely consumed. Cans weigh almost nothing, arrive at the taproom beer-gunk free, and offer many packaging size options. On top of that, by taking the right steps, cans offer the potential for maintaining the quality of the beer longer. To get a feel for how long that can be, watch a typical canning line run and take note of the steps involved.
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Sponsored The Art and Science of Media Relations with Chad Melis of Turn It Up Media
Led by experienced brewery brand builder Chad Melis, who spent over a decade elevating the Oskar Blues Brewery brand and now runs the marketing collective Turn It Up Media, this presentation will provide a roadmap for breweries to execute an effective media relations strategy.
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Sponsored Using Fermentation Profiles to Improve Your Recipes with Pål Ingebrigtsen of PLAATO
Brewing is the perfect mix of science, creativity and craftsmanship. For many brewers, creating and improving on recipes, while maintaining a high quality product is a big part of their daily work. When brewers start to collect ongoing fermentation data across multiple batches over time, they can compare how small tweaks in the recipe or outside conditions can change the overall outcome of the fermentation.
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Sponsored How to Attract Sponsors for Events or Programs with Meghan Connolly Haupt of MCH Strategy
Sponsorships can be an important revenue stream supporting diverse entities from national sports leagues to local brewery events. In this session, participants will learn essential elements for attracting sponsors and getting maximum revenue. We will cover how to identify good sponsors, how to create mutually beneficial relationships, how to sell sponsorships and more. Participants will leave with a general understanding of sponsorships and gain insight into best practices.
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Sponsored Explore the world of fruity beers with the Great American Beer Festival
Every autumn, beer lovers from around the world gather in Denver, Colorado for the Great American Beer Festival. In addition to sampling some of the nation’s best brews, the festival’s professional panel of judges choose gold, silver, and bronze award winners in 98 unique categories.
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Sponsored Guest Experience: How to Thrive in an Instant, On-Demand World
There’s a huge difference between good service and a good guest experience. It’s challenging enough to ensure your guests are greeted in a timely manner, their orders taken quickly, drinks never run dry, and their bill received and closed on time. These service steps are absolutely critical, but do very little to combat a negative first impression. Standards for service are increasing at a rapid pace as patience of our guests wanes, so is it time to pivot our focus away from basic tasks and focus more heavily on our presence with guests?
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Sponsored Key Performance Indicator Insights: Knowing Your Numbers with Joshua Lance of Lance CPA Group
Financial health is one of the most important parts of your business, but do you know how to get to the right metrics? In this session, we’re bringing insights from working with over 100 craft breweries and providing you with insights on understanding your brewery’s finances, including:
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Sponsored Managing Your Team With A Scorecard System with Julie Rhodes of Not Your Hobby Marketing Solutions
Brewing a cold IPA is one thing, but knowing how to manage your team is a whole different skill set all together. And even if you fake it until you make it, you might hit a tipping point where you need more strategic management systems in place to manage a larger team, hold them accountable for their various duties, streamline training processes, maintain expectations, and reward excellent performance in an unbiased manner. Learning how to use a strategic scorecard system to manage your team can help you navigate these uncharted waters.
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Sponsored Rising to Leadership: Optimize your Service on Boards and Committees with Meg Ellis
There are as many ways to be a leader as there are styles of beer out there. But not every opportunity is going to be the right fit for you. How do you find the “Goldilocks” role where you can make a difference? And what do you do once you’ve found it?
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Sponsored Choosing Brewery Equipment: Lightning Round with Kevin Weaver of Brewmation
When selecting your brewing equipment, there are a number decisions to make that might not be obvious. Great beer can be brewed on any virtually any system, but selecting the right equipment for your brewery is dependent on your processes, your beer, and your budget. In this webinar, we’ll cover a range of topics to consider when shopping for your brewery equipment.
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Sponsored Carrots: Incentives for Productivity with Aaron MJ Gore of Bevana
An overview of the principals behind how humans are incentivized in the pursuit of goals, and how best to use those insights in the business landscape. Attendees will learn the basics of building compensation and bonus structures that create the incentives you want, while avoiding the perverse and misguided incentives that you don’t. Moreover, they will learn how to apply these same techniques in the broader landscape, helping everyone reach the sense of accomplishment, satisfaction, and financial achievement they desire.
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Sponsored A Conversation of Tipping in Breweries
Over the past several years, many breweries have reconsidered their service models – searching for the delicate balance that best maximizes the experience for both guests and staff. In doing so, this has also generated more conversations about best practices regarding tipping. In this panel, we will discuss different tipping models, their benefits, their challenges, and how conversations on tipping can result in greater success for your taproom.
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Sponsored How E-Commerce Can Take Your Brand To The Next Level with Jason Sherman of TapRm
Alcohol e-commerce isn’t just a trend, it’s here to stay — but how can beer and hard seltzer brands fully utilize this sales channel and grow their businesses? Join Jason Sherman, CEO and Founder of TapRm, as he discusses the value of having your own customized e-commerce channel and the many ways it can help your beer brand scale.
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Sponsored How Decanters Increase High-Quality Beer Production
It’s a complex process to transform grains into refreshing, delicious beer. During production, a brewery’s step-by-step hot and cold processes influence the quality. Flottweg’s highly-efficient beer centrifuges meet the specific requirements of breweries while optimizing the entire process for maximum yields with the utmost level of quality.
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Sponsored Leveraging Events to Grow Your Taproom Business with Laura Lodge of Start A Brewery
As brewery owners and taproom managers, you know you’re supposed to host events. You may even have a staff member dedicated to creating and booking events. But they never seem to live up to expectations – and your regulars and your staff hate them.
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Sponsored WTF, Data?! Numbers = Profits! w/ Pulkit K. Agrawal of The 5th Ingredient
Almost every brewery is tracking their data – whether it’s in a spreadsheet, paper logs, or an electronic brewery management system. As breweries start scaling, there are two key areas that brewers and owners start looking at for their products — (1) making consistent quality beer and (2) improving costs over time.
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Sponsored How Does Raw Material Forecasting Increase Your Profit and Production?
As a brewer or brewery owner, there is a lot to consider when it comes to brewing your next batch of beer. What ingredients do you need? Where are you going to source your hops, malt, yeast, etc.? How much do you need of each? Without the right tools and processes in place, all these little tasks can build up into one big headache, especially when considering that ordering too many materials, the wrong ingredients, or low-quality ones can seriously hurt your bottom line and your final product.
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