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Brewing beer is a combination of both art and science, but there are many best practices to help keep your brewery running smoothly, make better quality beer, and maintain a healthy business. Learn best practices for brewing and serving different beer styles, building and maintaining a brewery that is safe and efficient, and keeping records that will protect your brewery and help you grow your business.
Confused about wastewater from your brewery and what to do with it? This talk will describe the situation from a municipal, environmental, and business owner perspective. The presentation will also cover design, equipment, layout, and forecasting methods for brewers who …Read More
Brewers strive to reduce brewing cycle time and increase the number of quality brews per day. Graham will demonstrate how to identify pinch points in your brewing process and address them with process adjustments, equipment and process designs, automation, and …Read More
When a brewer decides to purchase production equipment, many factors come into play, including beer styles and cost. The perfect equipment for one brewery may not be right for another. VLB, often asked for input in planning new facilities, will …Read More
Designing efficient, safe, and scalable grain handling systems up front is critical to long-term success in craft brewing today. This includes determining incoming grain strategies (bulk, semi-bulk, bags), conveying types (screws, cable-disc, cable-chain, bucket elevator, pneumatic transport), mill and mill …Read More
Pilsen-style lager beer may be the most popular beer style worldwide, but that’s not the case in craft breweries. Learn how to produce a Pilsen-style lager in your brewery that is unique to your brewing process and fermentation setup. Explore …Read More
This big, delicious sipping beer with a warming and lingering alcohol glow can be thought of as a dark, “imperialized” version of a hefeweizen.
Some of the best sour beers in the world are created by master blenders instead of master brewers. And yet you can’t take some classes and suddenly become an expert blender.
Brewers often fall silent when asked for advice on blending, not so much because they aren’t willing to share ideas, but because it’s so difficult to get started.
The nation’s brewpubs are keeping pace with production breweries in sheer diversity of styles and audacity in pushing the envelope, brewing up sours and barrel-aged beers.
I’ve been asked by a couple of BA members about my predictions for style trends in 2017. Let me start by saying that figuring out what other people will like in the future is pretty darn hard. Rather than looking …Read More
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