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  • 1.  Summer Technical Meeting in Myrtle Beach, SC

    Posted 07-18-2025 15:28
    Edited by Nikko Contti 08-01-2025 12:30

    Event: District Carolinas Summer Technical at GRAND STRAND BREWING

    Where: Grand Strand Brewing Company, 819 N King Hwy, Myrtle Beach, SC 29577

    When: Saturday, August 9th

    Tickets: $20

                  ** Same-day tickets are available!**
                  **AIRBRUSHED EVENT T-SHIRTS WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE**

    Working Agenda:

    9:00AM – Check-in / Breakfast (Coffee/Bagel Bar!)

    10:00 AM – Investigating S-04

    • Moh Saade, Regional Sales Manager at Fermentis by LeSaffre 

    11:00 AM – Dangers to a Clean Fermentation: An Analysis of Pectinatus and Biofilm

    12:00PM – Lunch Break & Networking

    1:30PM – Raw Materials Sensory Evaluation

    • Galen Smith, Southeast Craft Technical Sales Manager, MaltEurop
    • Ben Bereznay, Southeast Regional Sales Manager, John I Haas Hops

    Galen and Ben are leading malt and hop analysis and interactive experience. Participants will leave with an intimate knowledge of their raw materials, better understanding farm to brewery the variables that impact consistency and how to select the highest quality products. 

    3:00 PM – Happy Hour

    Network with Master Brewers from around the state, come with your next collaboration brew!

    4:00 PM - MINI-GOLF Tournament at Ripley's Believe It or Not Crazy Golf

    An elaborate in-door mini-golf tournament near Broadway at the Beach. We are hoping that members can get a authentic Myrtle Beach experience. Members can register for the mini-golf tournament on site. Prizes will be distributed to the winners.

    Details

    • NOTE: AIRBRUSHED EVENT T-SHIRTS WILL BE AVAILABLE
    • Join us on at Voodoo Brewing on Friday August 8th at 6 pm for a welcome get-together. 
    • Then on Saturday, August 9th, MBAA District Carolinas will be hosted by Grand Strand Brewing for talks by Moh Saade of Fermentis and Andrew Turner of Rocinante Consulting. They will have discussions on yeast, health and dangers. This will be followed by lunch (provided) and then an afternoon raw materials workshop by Galen Smith and Ben Bereznay of MaltEurop and Haas. Members will be able to sniff, break, chew, steep, crush, and handle malt and hops in the same workshop that is provided at Hop Harvest and Malt Harvest conferences. 
    • There will be a mini-golf tournament at Ripley's Crazy Golf with authentic Myrtle Beach prizes. Maybe you'll walk away with a pooka shell necklace...
    • And finally, while we are working out details for the Winter Technical at New Realm in Greenville, SC (see below), we want to know where members want to have the Spring Technical. We will hear suggestions and then vote as a group!

    EVENT REGISTRATION: HERE

    MARRIOT HOTEL BLOCK RESERVATION: HERE

    Please reach out with any questions and/or comments! As more information becomes available, I'll update this post.

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    UPCOMING EVENT: Winter Technical Meeting

    WHERE: New Realm Brewing Co in Greenville, SC

    WHEN: Saturday, November 15th

    DETAILS: Stay tuned for more details. We have reserved the space at New Realm in the brew house area and are expecting about 60-75 members. Brian Favre, the COO of New Realm Brewing & Distilling, is taking the mantle of national MBAA Vice-President and bringing some friends to give technical talks.


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    Nikko Contti, MPH
    Research Laboratory Safety & Health Specialist
    Home | Duke OESO
    nikko.contti@gmail.com
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  • 2.  RE: Summer Technical Meeting in Myrtle Beach, SC

    Posted 07-29-2025 12:21

    Looks like a fantastic couple of meetings queued up! Sorry to miss Myrtle Beach -too close to Brewing Summit to double-dip- but looking forward to the winter meeting at New Realm!



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    Jeff Muston
    Engineering Project Manager
    Sierra Nevada Brewing Co
    Mills River NC
    (828) 708-6136
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  • 3.  RE: Summer Technical Meeting in Myrtle Beach, SC

    Posted 08-01-2025 12:24

    You will be missed, amigo! I love how the Technical Chairs are leaning into the kitschy-ness of Myrtle Beach for this next meeting.

    For the New Realm meeting in Nov, we've been talking with Brian Favre about potential speakers and are hoping to get a talk on THC usage in beverage production (among other things). The subject has divided some folks because "is it a "brewing" topic for a Master Brewers event?" But we know it is topical to our industry. You have any topics of interest, Jeff, that we should look into getting a speaker for?



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    Nikko Contti, MPH
    Research Laboratory Safety & Health Specialist
    Home | Duke OESO
    nikko.contti@gmail.com
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  • 4.  RE: Summer Technical Meeting in Myrtle Beach, SC

    Posted 08-01-2025 12:28

    Oh, I forgot to announce the DEADLINE FOR SPONSORSHIP REGISTRATION is TUESDAY OCTOBER 5th. 

    I have to finalize the agenda design and send them off to FedEx to be printed and be ready by Sat. So if you/your company is thinking of sponsoring our Technical Meeting in Myrtle Beach, please register by Tuesday, October 5th.

    And if you/your company wants to put something in the Master Brewers Putt Putt Prize Pool, that's cool too. Currently we have a Beer Study fanny pack full of Underbergs and a pooka shell necklace. 



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    Nikko Contti, MPH
    Research Laboratory Safety & Health Specialist
    Home | Duke OESO
    nikko.contti@gmail.com
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