The winners of the European Beer Star 2015 have been announced

With a grand total of 1,957 beers (previous year: 1,613) from 45 countries and all continents, this year more beers than ever before were submitted to the European Beer Star competition. It took the 115-member international jury two days to complete the blind taste test at the world-renowned beer competition.

The Institute of Brewing & Distilling (IBD) has presented its prestigious Cambridge Prize to a talented young brewing scientist working for SABMiller UK.

The Board of The Brewers of Europe meeting on 3 November 2015 in Brussels has endorsed the nomination by the European Brewery Convention of Mr. Tiago Monteiro Brandão as successor to Dr. Stefan Lustig for the next EBC president.

With its 2015 Brewery Award of Excellence, the Master Brewers Association of the Americas (MBAA) recognizes outstanding achievements by a single brewery in the development and implementation of an innovative process (or processes) that supports environmental sustainability in brewing.

“Best practice”: this was the motto of the seminar held by GEA Group and Bühler AG in Nigeria. All renowned Nigerian breweries attended this event which took place in late September. The 30 participants gained information about new technologies and solutions in the brewing process and their integration into existing plants. The main emphasis was on lowering energy costs significantly and permanently as well as increasing yield simultaneously.

German brewing tradition meets Asian creativity

The Southeast Asian beer and soft drinks market is largely saturated. Beer and beverage producers are therefore under pressure to optimize production and make it as energy-efficient and cost-effective as possible. This year‘s Brewing Conference Bangkok straightforwardly addressed these matters under the watchword TOM – “Total Optimization Management”. The conference was organized by the VLB Berlin in cooperation with the Thailand Beer Industry Guild and was held from June 14th to 16th 2015 at the Bangkok International Trade & Exhibition Centre (BITEC). Some 250 experts from the Southeast Asian brewing and beverage industry and suppliers from around the world were in attendance.

“Why not now?”

Currently, the demand for Russian

Doemens trains brewmasters from Tsingtao Brewery

15 brewers from Tsingtao Brewery were selected to visit a five-month course at Doemens Academy in Munich. Vice-president Jiang Hong, who travelled to Munich for the graduation ceremony in June, stated that the company invested a lot in these brewmasters and that she was proud of their great success.

South Beer Cup

The fifth edition of the Copa Libertadores de Cerveza, South Beer Cup, was held on 21, 22 and May 23 in Mar del Plata, Argentina.

The Eric Kneen Memorial Award 2015 for the best paper published in the Journal of the ASBC in the previous calendar year went to an author team from Germany. The award was presented to the lead author Dr. Christina Schmidt by ASBC president Prof. Thomas Shellhammer, Oregon State University, at the annual meeting of the American Society of Brewing Chemists, which took place from 14-17 June 2015 in La Quinta, USA.