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Whether you’re packaging your beer in kegs, cans, or bottles, it’s important to make sure that you’re doing it right. The resources in this section will help you reduce beer loss and package your beer to maintain freshness until it reaches the glass.

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An Introduction to Monitoring and Managing Beer Freshness

An Introduction to Monitoring and Managing Beer Freshness

This introductory resource will provide background on beer freshness, oxidations, and how to make practical process improvements.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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Recycling-Focused Legislation Impacting Breweries aluminum cans and glass beer bottles

Recycling-Focused Legislation Impacting Breweries

Recent activity in state and federal recycling-focused legislation has the potential to impact small craft brewers.Read More

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Brewers Association

The Sustainability Subcommittee serves the Brewers Association purpose by helping current members and future generations to brew the highest quality beers in a manner that strengthens the value of our businesses, increases the resiliency of the natural environment and agricultural systems that provide brewing ingredients, and enhances the lives of our workforce and the communities we call home.

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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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Craft Beer Packaging Trends Recap – 2022 purple beer cans condensation x

Craft Beer Packaging Trends Recap – 2022

What happened with craft packaging in 2022? Dig into pack counts, sizes and formats for craft beer in 2022.Read More

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Economist

Bart Watson, Chief Economist for the Brewers Association, is a stats geek, beer lover, and Certified Cicerone®. He holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, where in addition to his dissertation, he completed a comprehensive survey of Bay Area brewpubs one pint at a time. You can follow him on Twitter @BrewersStats.

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How To Manage Off Flavors in Beer: Butyric Acid Butyric Acid Icon and sparkling beer off flavor series 1200x628 1

How To Manage Off Flavors in Beer: Butyric Acid

Download this cheat sheet on detecting and managing butyric 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.

See Quality Subcommittee's Articles

Increasing Beer To-Go Sales through COVID-19 and Beyond! man leaving with to go beer 1200x628 1

Increasing Beer To-Go Sales through COVID-19 and Beyond!

As the industry continues to navigate the pandemic and beyond, consider these ideas to increase and maximize beer to-go sales at your brewpub.Read More

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Brewers Association

The Brewpubs Committee is a diverse group of brewers that share a passion for elevating the craft beer culture of all members and serve to help promote the vision of the Brewers Association. The Brewpubs Committee serves the BA vision by: developing and disseminating solutions that drive the greatest business value for our membership; sharing best practices, tools, and resources that are applicable to brewpubs of all sizes; and fostering a collaborative environment among brewpub owners, operators, and brewers, and ultimately, our guests.

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TTB Publishes Next Round of Labeling Modernization Rulemaking women adding labels to cans in brewery 1200x628 1

TTB Publishes Next Round of Labeling Modernization Rulemaking

TTB has now published phase two of its rulemaking on modernizing labeling and advertising regulations for malt beverages and distilled spirits.Read More

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General Counsel

Marc Sorini, General Counsel for the Brewers Association, is a beer lover and homebrewer who has served as a counsel for small and independent craft brewers for more than two decades.

Marc holds a Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University Law Center and when he’s not contemplating beverage alcohol law, he's homebrewing with his adult kids.

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