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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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2025 Long View Outlook on Three Critical Brewing Ingredients Four quadrants showing cans, hops, barley, and water.

2025 Long View Outlook on Three Critical Brewing Ingredients

The Supply Chain Subcommittee provides a long view, deep dive into three key ingredients used to produce beer—hops, barley malt, and carbon dioxide (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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How To Tune Up Your CO2 System for Max Efficiency CO2 shortage hero

How To Tune Up Your CO2 System for Max Efficiency

Optimize CO2 usage by performing system maintenance and conducting audits to keep business running smoothly and reduce costs.Read More

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Brewers Association

The mission of the Maintenance and Engineering Subcommittee is to develop and enhance the craft brewing community's preparedness related to equipment and other technical aspects of building and maintaining a brewery.

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Dry Hopping Hazards and Control Strategies pouring hops x

Dry Hopping Hazards and Control Strategies

To meet customers' insatiable thirst for hoppy beers, most breweries are dry hopping, which increases the risk of costly beer loss from eruptive hop volcanoes and even costlier worker injury. Check that you're dry hopping like a pro. Remember, DRYHOP.Read More

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Brewers Association

The Safety Subcommittee increases safety awareness of Brewers Association members with the goals of minimizing risk and preventing harm to people, products, and facilities.

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Raw Material Survey 2024 Results glass of hops and glass of malted barley

Raw Material Survey 2024 Results

See the results of the 2024 Raw Material Survey. This survey dives deep in the weeds of what craft brewers are using for fermentables and hops, as well as what they expect to use in the year ahead.Read More

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Staff Economist

Matt Gacioch (he/him), staff economist for the Brewers Association, helps members make sense of the data that enable their businesses to thrive. He brings experience from market analytics, brewery operations, and consulting, along with an MBA, MS, and BS from the University of Michigan. Follow him on Instagram @craft_econ

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What Does the Fed’s Rate Cut Mean for Your Brewery? patrons enjoying brewery patio with US Federal Reserve System logo

What Does the Fed’s Rate Cut Mean for Your Brewery?

For those Brewers Association (BA) members who do not spend their day mired in macroeconomics, this quick post provides context on what the cut in the Federal Funds Rate on 9/18/24 could mean for the craft beer industry, both directly and indirectly. Read More

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Staff Economist

Matt Gacioch (he/him), staff economist for the Brewers Association, helps members make sense of the data that enable their businesses to thrive. He brings experience from market analytics, brewery operations, and consulting, along with an MBA, MS, and BS from the University of Michigan. Follow him on Instagram @craft_econ

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Supply Chain Updates Four quadrants showing cans, hops, barley, and water.

Supply Chain Updates

This harvest estimate update includes info on the barley and hop harvests, CO2 shortages, transportation, and cardboard and aluminum prices.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.

See Supply Chain Subcommittee's Articles
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