2019 District Ontario Annual Conference

Starts:  Jan 31, 2019 08:00 (ET)
Ends:  Feb 1, 2019 14:00 (ET)
Associated with  District Ontario




ITS THAT TIME OF YEAR AGAIN!  Time to book your seat at the longest running and most informative Canadian Technical Conference for Brewing Technologies.  Please join us for this 2 day event in January at the Delta Hotel and Conference Centre, Guelph

HIGHLIGHTS!

  • Key Note Speaker, Steve Dresler, Former Brewmaster of Sierra Nevada "A legend in Craft beer"
  • Presentations covering Quality Control, Brewing, Yeast, Yeast and Fermentation, Malt Handling, Packaging, Instrumentation
  • Brewery Tour and Tastings featuring Sleeman Breweries, Wellington, Royal City, Brothers, Fixed Gear - LIMITED SPACE!
  • Early bird admission rates to the conference  

Wednesday January 30, 2019

Annual Brewery Tour and Tastings trip with a special Stop at the Guelph Civic Museum for a sampling of Guelph’s downtown brewing history. SEATS ARE LIMITED!  Only $50, lunch and refreshments included.  Our tours theme is Quality Control.  Each of the brewers will highlight what they do and what challenges they have to produce a quality product in a reproducible fashion. These short and  informal talks will be open for Q&A.

Thursday January 31, 2019

Continental breakfast followed by Technical sessions from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.  Lunch is provided.

Preliminary Conference Program includes

  • Key Note Speaker, Steve Dresler, Former Brewmaster of Sierra Nevada "A legend in Craft beer"
  • Beer Canada Industry Update, Luke Chapman - Beer Canada
  • Simple Lab Equipment and Sensory Evaluation Setup, Dirk Bendiak - First Key
  • Co-brewing at Niagara with Yeast from Guelph, University of Guelph and Niagara College
  • Fermentation & Yeast, Keith Armstrong - Molson Coors Canada
  • Physical aspects of handling yeast, yeast aeration and propagation, Andreas Liebl - Esau & Hueber GmbH
  • Refermentation with fruit in a commercial brewery, Avery Swanson - Jester King Brewery

Beer Stube 7:30 pm - 12am - make new friends & catch up with old acquaintances featuring beers donated from breweries across Ontario.  Beer Stube is offsite this year.  Shuttle bus provided to 10 Carden (a Heritage building in Downtown Guelph).

Friday February 1, 2019

Continental breakfast followed by Technical sessions from 9:00 a.m. to 1 p.m. Lunch is provided

  • Brewery Grain Handling, processing and milling, Roger Scheel, Buhler Group
  • Quality in Draft Packaging Lines, Steve Bradt, Micro Matic
  • Pros and Cons of Mobile Packaging, Jeff Rogowski - Sessions Craft Canning
  • Wort Nutrition, Dr. Alex Speers - Canadian Institute of Fermentation Technology, Dalhousie University
  • Break out sessions:
  1. Coriolis Meter as an Analyzer, Densitometer in the Brewhouse, Paul Cieri - Lakeside Controls
  2. Yeast Cell Counting Workshop (with live demo), Chris Saunders and Alex Mitro - Escarpment Laboratories

Click link below to book your Hotel reservation.  Discounted rate of $144  is valid until January 8, complimentary parking,

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Location

Delta Guelph Hotel and Conference Centre
50 Stone Road West
Guelph, ON N1G 0A9