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Brewing beer is a combination of both art and science, but there are many best practices to help keep your brewery running smoothly, make better quality beer, and maintain a healthy business. Learn best practices for brewing and serving different beer styles, building and maintaining a brewery that is safe and efficient, and keeping records that will protect your brewery and help you grow your business.

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Soft Hoses vs. Hard Pipes: Process Applications, Safe and Sanitary Design, and Limitations of Both

Craft Brewers Conference 2021Denver, ColoradoSpeaker(s): Matt Bailey, Chris McCombs, Kent Taylor

Pressurized liquid transfer systems and their associated piping are a critical piece of brewery design that require airtight, sanitary design with particular attention paid to safety. This talk will focus on how to properly and practically select the right combination …Read More

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production
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Designing Low Calorie and Low Carb Beers

Craft Brewers Conference 2021Denver, ColoradoSpeaker(s): Kara Taylor

Drinkers are seemingly becoming more health conscious and the products becoming popular in the market are reflecting that trend. With hard seltzers, non-alcoholic, and other low sugar products rising, how can craft beer compete? Traditionally, these products are labelled as …Read More

production
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Let’s Talk Craft Lagers: Brewing on Low to High Tech Systems

Craft Brewers Conference 2021Denver, ColoradoSpeaker(s): Barry Chan, Will Kemper, Cody Reif

This panel of craft lager experts will provide attendees with an apples to apples process comparison at key points in lager production on systems ranging from budget-conscious to high tech, manual to automated. Speakers will provide a wide set of …Read More

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Liquid Innovation without Breaking the Law

Craft Brewers Conference 2021Denver, ColoradoSpeaker(s): Shauna Barnes, Becky Dulac, Justin Prochnow, Marc Sorini

Learn about the legal and regulatory aspects of and barriers to producing the innovations potentially available to craft brewers. Panelists will discuss the legal underpinnings and regulatory parameters to making hard seltzers, pre-mixed cocktails, low-alcohol wines and ciders, cannabis and …Read More

IPA Sales Growing, But Decelerating and Changing IPA data
Insights & Analysis

IPA Sales Growing, But Decelerating and Changing

IPA continues to be the most important style for many brewers, but as category growth slows, understanding what is going on with sales in its subcategories is becoming more important.Read More

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Economist

Bart Watson, Chief Economist for the Brewers Association, is a stats geek, beer lover, and Certified Cicerone®. He holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, where in addition to his dissertation, he completed a comprehensive survey of Bay Area brewpubs one pint at a time. You can follow him on Twitter @BrewersStats.

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Facts About Draught Beer Carbonation
Educational Publications

Facts About Draught Beer Carbonation

This resource gives brewers and retailers high level guidance for carbonation of draught beer at dispense.Read More

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Brewers Association

The Draught Beer Quality Subcommittee's mission is to improve the quality of draught beer dispensed to customers. They seek to preserve the great flavor and aroma of beer created by the brewer, and to deliver it to the consumer at retail. Great beer must be handled conscientiously to arrive in the glass in perfect condition.

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Brewery Traceability: Why, What, and How to Get Started
Industry Updates

Brewery Traceability: Why, What, and How to Get Started

Having a robust tracking program established within the brewery will make any recall process much easier and safer for future beer lovers!Read More

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Brewers Association

The Quality Subcommittee envisions a membership that consistently produces beer of high quality. Quality for this purpose has been defined as: a beer that is responsibly produced using wholesome ingredients, consistent brewing techniques and good manufacturing practices, which exhibits flavor characteristics that are consistently aligned with both the brewer’s and the beer drinker’s expectations.

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