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The resources in this section will help your brewery institute and maintain microbiology best practices, including how to identify and address an infection when it happens.

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Foundations of Pasteurization for Regular and Non-Alcohol Beers

Craft Brewers Conference 2024Las Vegas, NevadaSpeaker(s): Alex Speers

This seminar addresses concerns about bacterial survival in low- or non-alcohol and low-hopped beers during pasteurization. Learn about the basics of microbial death through heating and the impact of pasteurization on beers, including those with reduced alcohol and hops.Read More

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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

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Beyond Cell Counts: Off-Flavor Sensory for Aspiring Yeast Whisperers

Craft Brewers Conference 2024Las Vegas, NevadaSpeaker(s): Jackie Beardstrom

This seminar emphasizes the importance of understanding yeast health beyond traditional metrics. It explores leveraging sensory data to assess yeast well-being, identifying off-flavors associated with fermentation issues, their causes, and how to optimize recipe design for yeast health.Read More

Pasteurization: Getting Started With the Basics Man operating canning line

Pasteurization: Getting Started With the Basics

Understand the pasteurization unit (PU) calculation, equipment used, validation points, factors affecting PUs, and safety considerations.Read More

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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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How To Manage Off Flavors in Beer: Mousy Off Flavor Series THP Mousy ( x )

How To Manage Off Flavors in Beer: Mousy

Download this cheat sheet on detecting and managing mousy off flavors, also known as "THP," 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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Researcher Presentations

Craft Brewers Conference 2022Minneapolis, MinnesotaSpeaker(s): Kayla Altendorf, Colleen Brents, Glen Fox, Darla Goeres, Campbell Morrissy, Hannah Turner

Hear brief presentations from researchers doing work relevant to the craft beer industry, including work funded by BA research grants.Read More

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