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We all know the basic ingredients in brewing beer: barley, hops, water, and yeast. Learn all about these ingredients, including where and how to get them, what equipment to use to store and handle them in your brewery, and how to maintain and analyze their quality to make the best beer possible.

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Hop Evaluation Guidelines for Brewers Hop Selection Update 2021
Industry Updates

Hop Evaluation Guidelines for Brewers

The Brewers Association Supply Chain Subcommittee shares helpful tips and best practices for evaluating hops at selection.Read More

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Brewers Association

The Supply Chain Subcommittee is concerned with the ingredients and materials that are used to brew and package craft beers. By monitoring hop and barley harvest, interacting with growers and examining packaging supplies, and monitoring glass and can markets, the Supply Chain Subcommittee works to ensure a stable marketplace and provide educational resources to the brewing community on best practices for sourcing and selecting ingredients and packaging materials to suit their beers.

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The New Brewer: Raw Materials Issue

2016 World Barley and Hops Harvest

Ann George, Walter Konig, Thomas Raiser, Michael Brophy & Bart Watson

A comprehensive look at the 2016 hops and barley harvests. The U.S. is now the top-producing country for hops, while U.S. barley acreage faced a sharp decline.

The New Brewer: Technical Brewing Issue

Improving Hop Compound Extraction

Horst Dornbusch, Dylan L'Abbe-Lindquist & Mike Sova

In a conventional brewing process, brewers throw away most of the goodness in hops—not because they want to, but because there seems to be no alternative.

The New Brewer: Raw Materials Issue

Flavor & Aroma

Stan Hieronymus

Demand for new aromas and flavors is obvious, along with interest in locally grown hops, and simply something with a new name for brewers to use in their latest IPA.

The New Brewer: Raw Materials Issue

2016 BA Hop Usage Survey

Dick Cantwell

Cascade is still king among craft brewers, and the pack of top 10 desired hop varieties is unsurprisingly led by the proprietary peloton of Citra, Amarillo, Mosaic, and Simcoe.

The New Brewer: Raw Materials Issue

Malt Care & Handling

Horst Dornbusch & Thomas Kraus-Weyermann

As every brewer knows, malt is a natural and perishable product. How can brewers preserve malt quality as much as possible and thus extend its shelf life?

Harvest Reports 2020
The New Brewer: Raw Materials

2020 World Barley and Hops Harvest

Ann George, Jaki Brophy, Thomas Raiser, Bart Watson, Gina Feist, and Walter König

A comprehensive look at the 2020 hops and barley harvests. The U.S. again saw record acreage for hops, while U.S. barley production decreased slightly.

Malt Peaks and Valleys 2020
The New Brewer: Raw Materials

Peaks and Valleys

Gabe Toth

Even in normal times, barley farming is riddled with unknowns—it is at best a fickle partnership with Mother Nature. A pandemic adds demand uncertainty to the mix.

New Hop Varieties 2020
The New Brewer: Raw Materials

From All Directions

Stan Hieronymus

Contessa. Nectaron. Harlequin. Talus. Those are not the names of characters in the next Marvel movie. Instead, they are recently christened hop varieties.

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