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Contents for May 3, 2011 |
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President's Message |
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Featured Advertiser |
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Resources for District Technical Speakers |
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District Scholarship Deadline May 12 |
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Brewing and Malting Science Course, October 30 November 10, 2011, Madison, WI
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MBAA Annual Conference, October 13-15,
2011, Minneapolis, MN |
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District Northwest's Annual Spring Meeting |
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District Ontario Spring Social |
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District Rocky Mountain Holds Spring Meeting |
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District St. Louis Welcomes Chris White, the Craft Brewing Authority on Yeast |
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Join District St. Paul/Minneapolis at August Schell's for Spring Meeting |
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In
Memoriam |
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President's Message |
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 As winter turns to spring and summer our industry has begun to heat up as well. The MBAA Executive
Committee has been very busy, meeting at least monthly (sometimes twice a month) to make sure all of the initiatives are on track. We just held our spring Board of Governors
(BOG) meeting by WEBEX on Thursday, April 28 with great participation and input from all of the
districts. We will be sending a one- to two-page summary of that meeting within the next couple of weeks
to all members. As usual, the district BOG reps will fill their districts in on the details over the next couple of months at the local meetings.
Our newest district, District Europe, is planning a get-together at the upcoming EBC in Glasgow in May; further information is to follow. Hopefully any District Europe member
who is attending the EBC will stop by. I will be there and will look forward to meeting you. Of course, any other MBAA members attending are welcome too!
Cheers,
Rob McCaig
MBAA President
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Featured Advertiser |
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Resources
for District Technical Speakers |
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 District meetings provide a great mix of fun social networking and professional brewing education. Technical presentations at district meetings provide avenues to bring us up to date with the latest innovations in our craft as well as sharing expertise and education on the issues you confront day to day as brewers. Many breweries use the district meetings as a source of continuing educating in the brewing sciences for their employees while also seeing the value of joining the brewing community and establishing ties that can both help out with daily production issues as well as learning new techniques or processes they can bring to their own plant.
The
MBAA website
has a listing of speakers willing to present at your
next district meeting. Many are suppliers who can share expertise in their particular fields; some are retired brewers who have years of experience and can help flatten out a steep learning curve. The list of topics is diverse and wide:
filtration, yeast, sustainability issues, keg and packaging systems, CIP and cleaning chemicals, clarification, and beer stability. Before planning the technical portion of your next district meeting, I encourage you to check out the district speaker list and make some inquiries. If you want to be added to the list, please contact
Amanda
Aranowski or
me with a short description of yourself and your services. Education brings innovation and the district meetings are an ideal venue to promote both!
Cheers,
Karl Ockert
MBAA Technical Director
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District Scholarship Deadline May 12
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Attention all districts! Would you like to offer a scholarship to one of your members for the MBAA Brewing and Malting Science Course? You are invited to enter your
district in a lottery by May 12, 2011. If selected in the drawing, your district will be offered a discounted registration rate to send your scholarship recipient to the course. For more details, visit the
MBAA
District Resources webpage.
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Brewing and Malting Science Course, October 30 November 10, 2011, Madison, WI |
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More than 25 topics will be covered by industry experts at this technical brewing and malting course in Madison, WI. The last offering of this course sold out two months in advance, so be sure to register soon.
Learn more.
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MBAA Annual Conference, October 13-15,
2011, Minneapolis, MN |
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 Registration will open soon for the MBAA Annual Conference in Minneapolis, MN! The conference provides practical and cutting-edge talks; hands-on workshops; sessions and posters that cover all major aspects of brewing, packaging, and raw materials; a trade show featuring exhibits from suppliers; and a great networking environment.
Learn more.
(Photo courtesy of Meet Minneapolis.)
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District Northwest's
Annual Spring Meeting |
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MBAA
District Northwest's
annual spring meeting will be held in Hood River, May 13 and 14. The brewers' panel on Friday afternoon will commence with a lecture from Alan Kornhauser on
porters and will be followed up with speakers from Alaskan Brewing, Deschutes, Silver Moon, and Widmer Brothers. The Saturday morning technical session will focus on water with presentations on water quality for different brewing styles, Portland-area water source issues, dealing with problem waters, and on-site water treatment options.
See the website for details.
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District
Ontario Spring Social |
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District Ontario announces its Spring Social to be held Saturday, July 9, 2011,
from 5:30 to 10:00 p.m. at Cirillos in Toronto (Dundas at Burnhamthorpe). The
event will take place at a cooking school with demonstration areas as well as a separate small dining room. There is a welcome cask of beer. The
chef/owner will do an introductory presentation describing each of the four food stations, how beer was either incorporated or why it was chosen to go with the food item. People will circulate
and receive their food and two different beers served by a chef/staff at each station.
Registration forms are available on the
District
Ontario website. For more information, please contact
Paul Dickey.
Bonus: A large screen TV will play the Iron Brewer 2010 DVD.
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District
Rocky Mountain Holds Spring Meeting |
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District Rocky Mountain held our spring meeting at the Wynkoop Brewery in Denver on April 13. Ninety-three people were in attendance. The meeting began with a social hour, featuring a selection of Wynkoop beers, followed by a tour by brewer Brad Landman. President Gary Dick presided over a brief business meeting, followed by an engaging presentation by C. Andy Brown, head brewer at Wynkoop, on the topic "The Changing Nature of Innovation in Craft Brewing."
Read more...
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District St. Louis Welcomes
Chris White, the Craft Brewing Authority on Yeast
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 District St. Louis members were in abundance on Thursday, April 21, for an evening with Chris White, owner of White Labs in San Diego, CA, and the generally recognized authority on yeast for the craft brewing industry. Aside from the technical aspects of yeast production, preservation, and delivery systems, the evolution of White Labs from the beginning in 1995 and its response to the growth of the craft brewing market to what it is today was quite interesting. The meeting also served as the occasion to honor our oldest member, Fritz Zenthoefer, with a birthday cake for his 90th birthday. We thank our sponsor for our April meeting, EP Minerals, and our host for the meeting, the Schlafly St. Louis Brewery & Taproom.
We are entering the summer season and will not schedule any dinner meetings until October, but we do look forward to our annual golf outing scheduled for Friday, September 16, at Pevely Farms golf club in western St. Louis
County. Our Golf Chair, Daniel Jones, has issued a good weather decree and is putting together what promises to be a great time! The
district does plan, however, to have at least two educational opportunities for members focusing on specific brewhouse operations during the summer. These will be announced in greater detail at a later date.
Steve Huffman
District St. Louis Publicity Chair
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Join District
St. Paul/Minneapolis at August Schell's for Spring
Meeting |
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 Please join
District St. Paul/Minneapolis for our spring meeting on Wednesday, May
11, 2011. The meeting will be held at August Schell's Brewery in New Ulm, MN. Social hour begins at 4 p.m. followed by the business meeting and a presentation by August Schell's Brewery owner, Ted Marti. Ted will give a presentation on how his brewery has sustained for
more than 150 years and is still going strong. A wonderful home-cooked meal will follow the presentation. Cost of dinner will be $20 per person. If interested in attending, please rsvp to District
Secretary
Eric Harper. We look forward to seeing many smiling faces at the meeting.
Rebecca Jennings
District St. Paul/Minneapolis Vice President
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In Memoriam |
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Former MBAA Member Louis Kogelman passed away on February 10, 2011. He joined in 1943 and was a former member of District Philadelphia.
It is with great sadness that we announce that Greg Beaston, Milwaukee Brewing Team Leader, passed away April 6, 2011, in the company of his family.
He joined MBAA in 1998 and was a former member of
District Milwaukee.
Greg was struck with cancer a few years ago and fought a courageous battle that reflected his true zest for life and love of family and friends. We will miss Greg dearly and ask all of you to pray for his family.
Greg was a passionate and fun-loving man. He loved brewing and was very good at it. Greg worked in all areas of brewing during his career, beginning as a brewer with G. Heileman and progressing through greater levels of expertise with Hoster, Stroh, Miller, and MillerCoors Brewing Company. He knew the process and most importantly, he knew his people. Greg was a great teacher and had fun doing the work. For those of us who were privileged to work around him, we'll never forget some of his more famous phrases like
"Have a blue day" (blue was good) and "Dont ask how we got it in spec." Greg was a special person.
We would respectfully request that district officers or relatives notify
Cheryl Kruchten as soon as possible upon the death of one of our members or retirees: Cheryl Kruchten, Member Services Representative, Master Brewers Association of the Americas, 3340 Pilot Knob Rd., St. Paul, MN 55121, U.S.A. Direct Phone: +1.651.994.3801; Main Phone: +1.651.454.7250.
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