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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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The New Brewer: Sales & Marketing Issue

Thinking Small: Craft Brewers Embrace Smaller Packaging Formats

Gabe Toth

As craft beer trends toward lighter “lifestyle” options such as session beers, a growing number of craft breweries are gravitating toward smaller package sizes.

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The New Brewer: Technical Brewing/Brewery Operations Issue

Tracing Dissolved Oxygen through the Packaging Process

Andy Tveekrem

Selling oxidized, stale beer is an easy way to lose customers. With the increasing level of competition for retail space, brewers need every advantage to keep their beer at its best.

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We Can and So Can You: Canning Line Selection and Installation

Craft Brewers Conference 2019Denver, ColoradoSpeaker(s): Alan Windhausen, Brock Ashburn, Perry Dickerson

Properly packaging your beer for market is critical to quality and consumer experience, and the first step is selecting and installing the equipment! Join moderator Alan Windhausen from Pikes Peak Brewing, plus speakers Brock Ashburn from Highland Brewing and Perry …Read More

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The Effect of Malt Quality and the Malting Process on Beer Flavor Stability

Craft Brewers Conference 2019Denver, ColoradoSpeaker(s): Pattie Aron, PhD, Xiang Yin

Key staling compounds in beer, e.g., ketones and aldehydes, initiate from precursors and enzymes present in malt. Staling mechanisms include lipoxygenase (LOX) mediated oxidation of unsaturated fatty acids, aldehydes originating from process thermal load, and Strecker degradation of amino acids. …Read More

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Observations on Tracing Dissolved Oxygen Pickup in Beer Packaging

Craft Brewers Conference 2019Denver, ColoradoSpeaker(s): Andy Tveekrem

Join Andy Tveekrem, Brewmaster and Co-Founder of Market Garden Breweries, as he presents a practical guide to techniques for assessing and reducing dissolved oxygen (DO) pickup across packaging operations, with an emphasis on small scale (25-100 cpm) fillers for bottles and cans …Read More

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All Clear: Let’s Talk About Glass Quality

Craft Brewers Conference 2019Denver, ColoradoSpeaker(s): Jamie Norris, Jeff Hofacker, John Baise, Shawn Theriot, Tim Lozen

Unless your consumers are trying to get into the Guinness Book of records, no one wants to swallow glass! The Craft Brewers Glass Quality Group (CBGQG) is a dream team of quality, packaging and brewing professionals from at least a …Read More

Bottles and Cans: Craft Beer Packaging Trends in 2018

As industry growth has slowed, can growth is now coming at the expense of bottles. Let's break down that shift in terms of drivers. Read More

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Vice President of Strategy & Chief Economist

Bart Watson, Vice President of Strategy & 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 X, formerly known as Twitter, @BrewersStats.

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