The weekend will consist of a terrific Friday evening dinner
and welcoming introductory session on Craft Distilling at the Appalachian Gap Distillery beginning at ~4:30pm.
Directions to the Distillery
Accomodations for Friday night.
The Middlebury Inn
The Greystone Motel
Saturday starting at 9am attendees will be busy
with rotating classroom and hands-on laboratory sessions at the Drop-In Brewing Co / ABG. The plan is for a
full day Saturday with lunch included, and you'll be free at 5pm or so.
List of speakers:
Steve Parkes - Brewmaster Drop-In Brewing / Owner & Lead instructor at the American Brewers Guild
Matt Linske - Microbiologist at BDAS LLC. Micro Programs - Medias to use, Plating techniques, swabbing, sterile sampling, identifying micros.
Bob Scott / Charlie Giambrone - Vice Presidents - Food Safety Division at Rochester Midland Company. Basics principles of CIP process, chemical types and standard dosage, cemo on using titration kits.
Appalachian Gap Distillery - Friday night Craft distilling talk / social event
QA Programs:
Otter Creek – Brandon Mayes
Sam Adams – Casey O’Neill
Two Roads – Kendra Frederick
Jack’s Abby – Kate Steblenko
Red Hook - Austin Gregoire
Shipyard – Brooke Porter
SmuttyNose – Judi Clark
Maine Beer – Dan Roberts
LongTrail – Rachael Krevetski / Camarie Spear
RSVP: Members only please RSVP to
Greg McCarthy, MBAA New England district secretary: gmccarthy@mmm.com
Due to capacity constraints this event will be capped at the first 34 people to sign-up, so sign-up today if you're interested.
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
