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Coronavirus Resource Center

April 1, 2020

We understand concerns about COVID-19 (Novel Coronavirus) are top of mind for our members. Here are some helpful resources to consider related to your brewery business.Read More

COVID-19 Impact Poll Part 2: Sales and Policy

March 31, 2020

As a member of the craft brewing community, we want to know how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting your business. We want to support our community through advocacy and education. Participating in this short survey will allow us to understand …Read More

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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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Optimizing CIPs for Water Savings

Craft Brewers Conference 2018Nashville, Tennessee Cheri Chastain, Jason Perkins, Peter Kruger, Dennis Gorman

Cleaning and sanitation within a brewery are critical to good beers; but these activities use a lot of water in the process. Speakers in this session have an incredibly amount of experience and knowledge that you won’t want to miss. …Read More

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Sanitation in your Brewery: Where the Rubber Meets the Road

Craft Brewers Conference 2018Nashville, Tennessee Andy Tveekrem

Sanitation in a brewery of any size involves more than just good CIP practices. Numerous items are all working for (or against) your success in producing clean, consistent beer. This seminar will lexamine the brewery as a whole and explore …Read More

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Using Safety Data Sheets to Create a Safe Brewery Environment

Craft Brewers Conference 2017Washington, D.C. Dana Johnson, Tony McCrimmon

Safe chemical use is a partnership between the user and the chemical supplier. In this interactive, hands-on presentation, a safety professional and a brewery chemical supplier discuss the specifics of chemical Safety Data Sheets (SDS) as used by two breweries. …Read More

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When Yeast Attack: The Story of Bell’s and Saccharomyces cerevisiae var. diastaticus

Craft Brewers Conference 2017Washington, D.C. Lauren Torres

Breweries are constantly fighting against microbial threats. This talk will focus on Saccharomyces cerevisiae var. diastaticus, an over-attenuating yeast. This organism makes use of sugars that are left over after fermentation and can wreak havoc, from out-of-ABV-compliance beer to bottle …Read More

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CIP: Latest Technologies, Typical Errors, and CIP Process Assurance

Craft Brewers Conference 2016Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Deniz Bilge

Clean-in-place (CIP) and other cleaning strategies can be challenging. However, a consistent, proper, and professional hygiene regime is important to producing quality beer. The choice of detergents as well as understanding cleaning kinetics is key. In this seminar, Deniz Bilge …Read More

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Basic Microbiology for Small Breweries

Craft Brewers Conference 2016Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Aimee Garlit, Dave Sippel

This seminar will discuss how to institute basic microbiology practices in a brewery, including how to identify an infection in your brewery and address it. Read More

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Draught Beer Quality for Retailers

Craft Brewers Conference 2015Portland, Oregon Rob Gerrity, Matt Meadows, Neil Witte

This seminar will be a presentation of the new version of the Draught Beer Quality Manual written specifically for draught beer retailers. Read More

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Harmonization of the Hazard Communication Standard

Craft Brewers Conference 2014Denver, Colorado Dirk Loeffler

Every brewery needs to educate its employees to avoid hazardous chemical exposure in the workplace. Hazcom starts a culture of safety from day one with new employees. This workshop provides a list of requirements for a compliant and effective hazcom …Read More

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Hazard Communication Orientation Workshop

Craft Brewers Conference 2014Denver, Colorado Joe Schiraldi

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Monitoring the Cleaning, Sterilization and Filling of Kegs

Craft Brewers Conference 2013Washington, D.C. Chris Nimptsch

Chris pinpoints and addresses the various factors influencing keg cleaning, disinfection and filling, and offers remedies for common problems. Read More

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