District St. Louis Annual Fall Meeting

I Hope everyone had a great summer! Please join the Master Brewers District St. Louis for our Fall Technical Meeting at 4 Hands Brewing Company.

Tighten your packaging, broaden your grain bill.

A practical, experience-driven session on filling and can seaming—key takeaways from years of troubleshooting seam integrity, the critical parameters that matter (setup, roll profiles, lifter pressure, seam height/width, tightness/wrinkling), and day-to-day best practices for seaming operations—paired with university-led insights on malted rice as a brewing ingredient, including industrial production perspectives, malting and brewing qualities across cultivars, and implications for flavor, foam, fermentation, and brewhouse efficiency.

Event

Fall Technical Meeting – Malted Rice & Can Seaming
Date: Monday, October 20, 2025
Time: 3:30 PM – 8:00 PM
Location: 4 Hands Brewing Company
Address: 1220 S 8th St, St. Louis, MO 63104
Parking: Lot + Street

Event Highlights: Dinner included, plus two drink tickets (additional drinks on your own).

Agenda

• 3:30–4:00 PM – Registration & Networking

• 4:00–4:20 PM – District Business Meeting

• 4:20–8:00 PM – Technical Presentations & Dinner

Registration & Pricing

• Early-bird (through Mon, Oct 13): $20 members / $30 non-members

• Regular (Oct 14–19): $25 members / $35 non-members

• At the door: $30 members / $40 non-members

Register Here: Register Here Now!

Sponsorship Opportunities

Support our programming while gaining visibility:

$500 Meeting Sponsorship

• Up to 4 guest registrations for your customers in the brewing/fermentation trades

• Logo placement on all event communications

• Up to 10 minutes to present before/after the technical talks

• Podium recognition during the event

• Display table (optional)

$150 Supporting Sponsorship

• 1 complimentary registration for your customer in the brewing/fermentation trades

• Logo placement on event communications

• Podium recognition during the event

• Display table (optional)

Sponsor Here: Sponsor Here Now!

Speakers & Topics

University of Arkansas – Malted Rice in Brewing

• Bernardo Guimarães – Industrial Perspectives on Malted Rice: Upscaling Production and Insights from Malt Houses and Breweries

• Dr. Heena Rani – Malting and Brewing Qualities of Globally Sourced Rice Cultivars

• Dr. Christian Schubert – Insights on Brewing with Milled Rice

• Dr. Scott Lafontaine – Brewing with Milled Rice: Sensory and Process Considerations

Packaging Focus

• Fills And Seams: A Dive into Filling Basics and Critical Seam Measurements — Grant Smith, Field Service Technician, Pneumatic Scale Angelus

  • Real-world lessons on fill fundamentals, seam integrity diagnostics, critical measurements, and operational best practices.

Questions? Contact mbaastl314@gmail.com.
We look forward to seeing you on October 20th!

United We Brew,
Master Brewers District St. Louis