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Packaging Issue

January/February 2021

For the January/February 2021 The New Brewer, we present our Packaging issue. In this issue, author Greg Kitsock takes a closer look at one of the significant challenges currently affecting craft brewers: the aluminum can shortage. In addition, financial guru Audra Gaiziunas discusses pathways for obtaining new equipment for your brewery; Gary Nicholas outlines food safety as it applies to packaging operations; and Lindsay Barr discusses the importance of sensory evaluation of packaged beer. We also take a look at how on-premise breweries such as taprooms and brewpubs are continuing to survive the pandemic. Read More

This issue is brought to you by BSG Hop Solutions

Can Crunch

Greg Kitsock

Craft brewers have been forced to scrounge packaging wherever they can, including repurposing “old” cans with makeshift labels and dusting off bottling lines.

Financial Pathways for Adding Brewery Equipment

Audra Gaiziunas

Exploring different avenues of bringing equipment in house can take center stage as brewers strategize how to move forward during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Food Safety in Beer Packaging

Gary Nicholas

Since packaging operations are the last set of a brewery’s process steps to touch beer before it’s consumed, it’s essential that breweries pay strict attention to food safety.

Attention to Detail

Lindsay Barr

Monitoring and controlling packaging operations is one of the biggest challenges to beer quality, and it often distinguishes good brewers from great brewers.

Packaging Trends

Mike Kallenberger

The history of package mix in beer has been a dance of the respective market shares of cans and bottles, each growing and declining in response to long-term trends.

Staying Afloat

Gabe Toth

Adding packaging, ramping up outdoor spaces, and finding other creative ways to keep customers engaged have been crucial to on-premise breweries’ survival.

The Connected Brewer: Leveraging Real-Time Fermentation Monitoring to Boost Product Quality and Operational Efficiency

Sponsored by Precision Fermentation

Collab Hour January 21, 2021 Speaker(s): Dave Frizzell, Erik Myers

This webinar will examine an emerging technology-driven paradigm that can help elevate brewing processes and outcomes.Read More

Presentation Q&A

VA ABC Stores Sales Restriction Proposed

January 19, 2021

S.B. 1428 would prohibit the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority from selling in government stores low alcohol beverage coolers not manufactured by licensed distillers. Under current law, the Board may sell any low alcohol beverage coolers in government stores. Read More

Written By Pete Johnson , State & Regulatory Affairs Manager

State & Regulatory Affairs Manager

Pete Johnson serves as the State & Regulatory Affairs Manager for the Brewers Association (BA). He joined the BA at its inception in 2005, having previously worked as Programs Director for the Brewers Association of America. Before coming to the small brewing industry in 2001, Pete worked for 14 years with both state and federal elected officials in Pennsylvania and Washington, D.C.

NY Farm Brewery Sales Expansion Proposed