The Mash

1. Happening This Week:

• Brewers Book Club
• District St. Paul-Minneapolis Fall Meeting and Election

See the event calendar
 

2. Episode 190: Variation in Starch Structure

Did you know that the gelatinization temperature of your malt could be as low as 136F or as high as 154F? Charlie Bamforth's successor joins us to talk about variations in starch structure and what that might mean for your mash. Special Guest: Glen Fox. Listen here.

Links

• 158. The relationship between barley starch structure and the sugar profile of wort - 2012 World Brewing Congress
• 25. The comparison of DP enzyme release and persistence with the production of yeast-fermentable sugars during a modified IoB 65°C and Congress mashes - 2016 World Brewing Congress
• 90 - Confirmation of endogenous enzymes in Humulus lupulus and proposed lab method for determination of secondary fermentation - 2020 World Brewing Congress
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3. New Presentations Posted

Thank you to the following district officers for uploading presentations to the District Presentations Archives:

District Carolinas Fall 2024 Technical  - uploaded by Nikko Contti

• Alternative Grains for Brewing: Trends & Quality
• Developing New Yeasts for IPA Production via Targeted Yeast Breeding and Adaptive Laboratory Evolution    
• Outlook Hazy or Bright

District Philadelphia Fall Meeting at Yuengling Brewery  - uploaded by Andrew Johnston

• Johnson, Roy - 2024 Hop Harvest Update
• Weber, Dan - Recipe Formulation and Scaling

District Philadelphia Fall Technical Meeting  - uploaded by Andrew Johnston

• Barth, Roger - Managing Haze
• Jurado, Jaime - Quantifying Craft Brewery Carbon Dioxide Demand, and its Harvestable Fermentation Gas Collection Potential
• Lange, Allison - Yeast Management Best Practices in Dry Hopped Beers
• Mooney, Thomas - Machine Learning Applications in Beverage Manufacturing
• Pitra, Tiffany - What's up with Hop Smoke Taint

 

4. What's Next:

November 2024

December 2024

January 2025

August 2025

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Emma Nygren
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Communication Manager
Master Brewers Association of the Americas
enygren@scisoc.org
3285 Northwood Circle Ste 100
Saint Paul, MN
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