The Mash

1. Happening This Week:

• DNIL Winter Meeting
• District St. Paul - Minneapolis Winter Meeting

See the event calendar

2. Episode 171: Best Practices - Container Rinsing with Water

Does your brewery can or bottle? Do you pay close attention to your rinser or just assume it does what it's supposed to? This week on the show, we take a deep dive into water rinsers with a team of Master Brewers who collaborated to publish a Best Practices document you can use to get bottle and can rinsing done right. Special Guests: Ben Bailey, Dave Duff, Eric Samp, Heather Muzzy Caron, and Tim Lozen. Listen here.

Links

• Best Practices - Container Rinsing with Water - MBAA TQ 2019
• Container Quality - MBAA Communities of Practice
• Upcoming Events - Master Brewers Calendar
• Join Master Brewers
   

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3. New Presentations Posted

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

MBAA District Ontario Technical Conference 2024 - uploaded by Ian Johnson

• A Novel Maltose Negative Hybrid for Superior Low and No Alcohol beer
• Achieving Clarity with Fining Agents
• Beer Canada:  Industry Update & Trends 2024
• Brewing Fittings -Why Brewers Should Consider Alternatives to Tri-Clamp and What are the Alternatives?
• Characterizing and Breeding stress tolerant brewing yeasts
• Culture: The Lived Experience
• Dialing in your mash water chemistry
• Hands-on QC Diacetyl
• Insights Into Designing Preferable and Tasty Non-Alcoholic Beers
• Material Handling of Kegs
• Maximizing Brewhouse Efficiency and Reducing Losses
• Microbiology and Sensory Impacts of Pasteurization in a Small Brewery
• Public Hops and You
• Renewed Focus on Quality: Good, Consistent Beer is Table Stakes
• Report on Updates to MBAA Website
• State of Hop Industry Update 2023 (US Crop Report)
• Sustainability in Malt Production in Canada
   

4. What's Next:

February 2024

March 2024

April 2024

May 2024

June 2024

August 2024

September 2024

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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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