Core Concepts

  • Malting Technology & Processes
  • Research Partnerships for Breweries and Universities

 

Alternative Beverages

  • American Single-Malt Whiskey, An Emerging Category with overlap and Implications to the Brewing Industry
    • Bulleit American Single Malt
  • Technical Session: Alternative Beverages 
    • Exploring the Chemical and Sensory Profiles of Japanese and American Sakes
    • Using Consumers as a Sustainable Innovation tool in New Product Development & Innovations 

Analytical 

  • ASBC Method Templates and Example Spreadsheets to Simplify Data Management for Craft Brewers
  • Research in the Brewery: How to Create an Experimental Design and Report Data
  • Technical Sessions: Analytical 1
    • Effect of Amino Acid Treatments on Copper Complexation and Polyfunctional Thiol Stability in Beer
    • Expanded Proteomic Analysis Using Single-grain Malting and Single-grain Mashing for Improved Barley, Malting, and Beer Production
  • Technical Session: Analytical 2
    • Foam Quality: Foam-active and Foam-stabilizing Fractions
  • Technical Session: Analytical 3
    • Characterization of Arabinoxylan and β-glucan Molar Mass in Bottom-fermented Beers: Relevance Towards Filtration Performance
    • Co2 Quality in an Unpredictable Market
    • Data Analytics - Machine Learning - Artificial Intelligence, a Brewers Perspective

Brewery Operations

  • Brewery Plant Integration & Automation: Practical Case Studies of Growth and Efficiency Gains
    • Integration in a Legacy Plant 
  • Nitro-Boosted Breweries: Reducing CO2 usage in Packaging
    • Nitrogen Generators for Brewery Applications

Brewing

  • Best Practices for Crafting No and Low-Alc Beers
    • Best Practices for Crafting No- and Low-alc Beers: Role Process Authority 
  • Hops of the Future - Brewing Perspective
    • The Impact of On-Farm Growing Practices on New Zealand Hop Varieties
    • The Japanese Hops Environment
    • Hops of the Future: Canada
  • Taproom Talk
    • Brewing Beyond Boundaries: Trials & Triumphs in the Triad of Beverage Innovation

Ingredients

  • Sustainable Agricultural Production of Grain Ingredients for Brewing - Winter Barley and Kernza
    • Kernza Performance in Malting, Brewing, & Distilling 
    • Water Quality Benefits of Perennial and Winter Annual Grains
    • Introduction to Kernza Perennial Grain
    • The Market Side of Kernza and Winter Barley
  • The Path to Sustainable Malt: Innovations in Malting Technology and Process
    • Sustainable Malting 
  • Technical Session: Barley
    • Proteomics for grain and malt quality prediction within a contrasting set of barley genotypes and environments
  • Technical Session: Hops
    • Deconstruction the Chemical Composition of a Hop Cone - a 21st Century Fractionation Approach
    • Enzymatic Activity of German Hop Cultivars with Respect to Variety, Crop Year, and Separated Hop Cone Parts
  • Technical Session: Hops - Hop Quality
    • Hops in Harmony: Optimizing Harvest Timing For Quality and Flavor 
    • The Influence of Hop Drying Parameters on Aroma Hop Quality in American Deep Bed Drying
  • Technical Session: Hops - Hop Creep
    • Controlling Hop Creep of Dry Hopped Beer Using Exogenous Enzyme Addition to Forestall the Endogenous Dextrin Degrading Enzymes of Humulus Lupulus (Hop)
  • Technical Session: Malt
    • Navigating the FAN Challenges in Pursuing the Perfect Malt 
  • Technical Session: Other Ingredients (Adjuncts & Water)
    • Examining and Addressing the Existential Risk to Beverage Producers' Essential Ingredient - Water
    • On the Effect of Varying Barley Malt and Rice Portions in Non-alcoholic Beer Production 

Professionalism & Outreach

  • IBD Session
    • A Resilient Workforce: Lessons Learned and How the Brewing Industry is Shaping for the Future
  • Closing Keynote with Willie Rahr
    • Weathering the Storm: Balancing Short Term Goals to Create an Enduring and Sustainable Business
  • TTB Session
    • Methods of Analysis in the Brewing Industry

Sensory

  • Smokey Hop Preparedness Workshop: Are You Ready for the Next Wildfire Smoke Event? 
  • Technical Session: Hop Sensory
    • Chemical and Sensory Evaluation of Hop Varieties: Insights into the Relationship Between Aroma Properties and Growing Regions Using Two-dimensional Gas Chromatography
  • Technical Session: Low and No Alcohol Beer - Flavor
    • Evaluating Commercially Available Yeast Strains for Their Application and Flavor Profiles in Non-alcoholic Beer
    • Novel High-glucose Worts as a Tool to Optimize Fermentation Performance of Non-saccharomyces Yeast(nsy) in Non-alcoholic Beer (NAB) Production

Sustainability 

  • Taproom Talk
    • Approachable Ways to Meet the Shifting Demands of Global Sustainability 

Yeast & Micribiology

  • Food Safety: Requirements, Programs, Experiences & Culture in Brewing 
    • Training in the Brewery: A food safety fundamental 
  • Technical Session: Yeast 1
    • Development of New Co-fermentation Strategies Based on Enzymatic Activities of Lager and Ale Yeasts to Enhace Polyfunctional Thiol Release from Glutathionyl, G-glucys- and Cys- precursors 
  • Technical Session: Yeast 2
    • The Inhibition of Diastatic Yeasts by Saccharomyces Cerevisiae Killer Toxins to Prevent Hyperattenuation
  • Technical Session: Low and No Alcohol Beer - Stability and Food Safety 
    • Beyond Ethanol: The Role of Natural Antimicrobials to Safeguard Low and Non-alcoholic Beer from Pathogenic Bacteria and General Microbial Spoilage 

 

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