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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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Thiolized Yeast 101
The New Brewer: Technology in Brewing Issue

Thiolized Yeast 101

Laura Burns and Lance Shaner

The brewing industry became clued into thiols when researchers began to identify them as the highly impactful compounds driving tropical aroma in modern hop varieties.

Gene Edited Barley
The New Brewer: Technology in Brewing Issue

Gene Editing

Gabe Toth

With the advent of more precise gene editing technology such as CRISPR, bioengineered small grains may find their way into the malting supply chain in coming years.

How To Manage Off Flavors in Beer: Dimethyl Sulfide (DMS) Glass of beer next to brown icon featuring a cob of corn, label of

How To Manage Off Flavors in Beer: Dimethyl Sulfide (DMS)

Dimethyl sulfide (DMS) is commonly associated with a creamed corn aroma and originates from a barley precursor.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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2023 Post-Harvest Supply Chain Update Four quadrants showing cans, hops, barley, and water.

2023 Post-Harvest Supply Chain Update

The 2023 post-harvest report is a mixed bag for hops and barley due to weather, and also includes updates on packaging, water, and CO2.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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World Harvest Reports 2023
The New Brewer: Raw Materials Issue

2023 World Barley and Hop Harvests

Maggie Elliot, Thomas Raiser, Bart Watson, Horst Dornbusch, and Walter König

A comprehensive look at the 2023 hops and barley harvests. Hop acreage declined significantly in the U.S., while climate change is affecting crops around the world.

Naked Barley
The New Brewer: Raw Materials Issue

Naked Barley

Gabe Toth

A small group of researchers and grain users is stripping barley down to its essentials, looking for the next breakthrough in malting and brewing. Is hulless barley on the rise?

Hop Farming
The New Brewer: Raw Materials Issue

Common Bines

Stan Hieronymus

Farms in the Pacific Northwest grow 43% of the hops in the world. Other small hop farms from around the country and world make up the rest of the story.

How To Manage Off Flavors in Beer: Mercaptan mercaptan off flavor icon with clean beer

How To Manage Off Flavors in Beer: Mercaptan

Download this cheat sheet on detecting and managing mercaptan off flavors by the Brewers Association Quality Subcommittee.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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