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Brewery labs do not have to be complex and can be built and maintained on any brewery’s budget. Use the resources in this section to make your brewery lab and keep ensuring quality in your beer.

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How To Manage Off Flavors in Beer: Lactic Acid lactic acid icon with pilsner glass

How To Manage Off Flavors in Beer: Lactic Acid

Download this cheat sheet on detecting and managing lactic acid, 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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CBC 2024 Quality & Sensory Seminars

Quality management is critical for continued success in the ever-crowded craft beverage industry. Seminars in this track help you build your own sensory and quality programs and maintain quality products in the taproom.Read More

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Education Program Manager

MacKenzie Staples is the education program manager for the Brewers Association. In addition to managing the resources and articles on BrewersAssociation.org, she organizes the seminars for the Craft Brewers Conference® (CBC), curates the webinars in the BA Collab Hour series, and serves as the staff liaison for the CBC Seminar Subcommittee. She is originally from Texas where she fell in love with craft beer, and is proud to say that she has visited over 800 U.S. small and independent craft breweries.

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The Quality Glow Up: Keeping Receipts and Making Consistently Great Beer

Craft Brewers Conference 2024Las Vegas, NevadaSpeaker(s): Paige Martin, Mara Young

Learn to establish a quality program and lab for your brewery. Discover how to start, budget, and prioritize quality control points using existing space and equipment. Explore lab testing, cell counting, data interpretation, and troubleshooting bad quality. Leave with an elementary program plan to enhance processes and beer quality immediately.Read More

Methods for Monitoring Oxygen: Sensory vs. Instrumentation Beer bubbles around words Methods for Monitoring Oxygen, Sensory versus Instrumentation

Methods for Monitoring Oxygen: Sensory vs. Instrumentation

Both methods of detecting oxygen offer different types of data that can work together in the pursuit of maintaining beer flavor.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.

See Quality Subcommittee's Articles
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ASBC Lab in a Fishbowl

Craft Brewers Conference 2022Minneapolis, MinnesotaSpeaker(s): Rachel Eidman, Matt Linske

This CBC 2022 seminar includes sessions on "Yeast Cell Counting and Viability" and "Basic Microbiology on a Budget."Read More

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