Greetings ! Our Fall quarterly meeting will be at the Maine Beer Co ! Thank you to Maine Beer for hosting this event !
Program Schedule:
4:00-5:00pm Social Hour
5:15-5:30pm Business Meeting
5:30-6:45pm Technical Presentations
6:45-8:00pm Social and Dinner
Confirmed speakers/topics for this meeting include:
Clarifying and Stabilising Beer without Filtration
Nick Brading, Export Manager, Murphy & Son LTD
Nick will presenting on an introduction to the concept of using process
aids to achieve star bright beer, such as carrageenan, auxiliary and isinglass
finings. This is a technical
presentation about what process aids are, how they work and the factors present
in beer that can influence their performance.
Nick graduated Brewing school from Heriot-Watt University,
Edinburgh, Diploma in Malting & Brewing in 1983. Completed a 4 years at the James Shipstone
& Son Ltd, Brewers in Nottingham, England.
Worked next 10yrs at the Ruddles
Brewery in Langham, Rutland (near Leicester), passing his Master Brewer
examinations in that time. Both breweries were traditional cask ale breweries.
Nick then joined Carlsberg Breweries in Copenhagen in 1997
to learn about international lager production and working a variety of
technical brewing roles throughout Europe & Asia until 2004 when he
returned to the UK to work at their Joshua Tetley Brewery in Leeds. This
brewery closed soon after so he then joined Murphy & Son selling and
promoting their unique range of brewery process aids and ingredients,
developing their export market from 2009 onwards.
Keg Education
Mark Carpenter, Sales Director
Franke Beverage Systems, Inc.
Mark will be presenting on Keg and Valve Safety- system
design, how to recognize damaged parts and safety hazards
Mark
has been working for Franke in sales and operations since 2009. As the leading keg supplier in North America
and the only keg supplier with
it’s own keg repair operation, Mark has had the opportunity to see and analyze virtually every imaginable keg
malfunction. Mark and the technical team at
Franke are frequently called upon by their customers and other trade organizations to evaluate keg failures, keg-related
injuries, or to promote keg safety.
RSVP: Members only please RSVP to Greg McCarthy, MBAA New England district secretary: gmccarthy@mmm.com
If not a member please join separately online at this link How to Join MBAA and bring your membership card or at least the membership number when it arrives.
We look forward to seeing you there ! Cheers, the MBAA New England Technical Committee
