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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.
For the November/December 2016 The New Brewer, we present our annual Raw Materials issue. In this issue, we take a look at the 2016 worldwide hop and barley harvests; explore new hop varieties with author Stan Hieronymus; and learn how to properly transport and store malt with Thomas Kraus-Weyermann. Read More
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This Power Hour presents the latest information about the 2016 barley crop, covering yield volume and quality of the current year's crop.Read More
Leading experts on Fusarium and its effects on malting barley, malt, and beer cover problems in the malt house and other issues concerning brewers.Read More
Due to high quality malt production, decoction mashing is less common in modern beer production. However, craft breweries are often faced with different challenges that may be solved through a decoction mashing procedure. Theory and practical uses will be discussed …Read More
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
Experts discuss the revolutionary power of craft malting and small-scale barley farming. Over the last 100 years, breweries have moved away from malting their own barley to buying a small number of barley varieties from a small number of producers. …Read More
Only two commercial maltsters in the U.S. operate roasters to produce specialty malt. This seminar will present a basic understanding of the malting process before delving into the differences between producing malt on a kiln compared to producing malt in …Read More
The presentation will cover the process, equipment, science, and philosophy behind making 100-percent spontaneously fermented beer in a production brewery. Highlights will include the history of spontaneous fermentation, brewing and inoculation, fermentation and blending, fruit refermentation, the use of adjunct …Read More
The milling of base and specialty malts has a significant financial and quality impact on your beer. A complete understanding of the milling process, the different types of milling equipment available, and the standard approach to evaluating and optimizing your …Read More
This seminar will illustrate how water quality affects beer quality and present methods and equipment necessary to improve brewery water quality. Read More
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