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The twelfth Brasil Brau convention is now history. With 60 percent more exhibitors spread over a significantly larger area (6000 m2) this year, the biennial meeting of the Brazilian brewing scene has grown considerably since 2011. At that time, the convention already boasted 5000 visitors at the Transamerica Expo Center in São Paulo. This year the visitor numbers must have been substantially higher. One of the main reasons for the higher attendance at this year’s Brasil Brau is most certainly the increased interest in Degusta Beer, a platform for highlighting microbreweries and craft beers, which the organizers, Fagga Eventos and the Brazilian Association of Brewers and Maltsters (Cobracem), first made accessible to the public in 2011.
Mash and wort acidification have a positive influence on finished beer. In view of the benefits associated with biological acidification, these plants are also of interest to those brewers who are not constrained by the German Purity Law. In this study, the effects of temperature, wort concentration and initial cell count on lactate production and cell proliferation will be investigated. Practical tests were carried out in order to simulate the fed-batch process and explore the potential of a full-sized plant in a large brewery.
The exhibition in Rimini, Italy (Rimini Fiera) presented a new face and a new name to the public this year. The Rimini Horeca Expo (Horeca is an abbreviation for hotel, restaurant and catering) took place from February 23rd to 26th 2013. This year’s event was envisioned as a novel concept for a trade fair, one aimed at the catering market and encompassing all categories of gourmet foods. The name RHEX actually refers to famous Italian film director Frederico Fellini, who hails from Rimini, and alludes to the name of a ship that appeared in one of his films.
“Grow and pay attention in the years to come” was the advice the President of the Brewers Association, Charlie Papazian, gave in his opening speech to the roughly 6400 participants at this year’s Craft Brewers Conference (CBC) in Washington D.C. Whoever believed they may have heard signs of subdued euphoria about the US craft brewing industry in his address were confronted at the very latest in Paul Gatza’s report on the status of the craft brewing industry with current market data and evidence for emerging trends intermingled with cautious optimism.
The European Beer Star, a European beer competition organized by Verband Privater Brauereien, a German brewing trade association, has undergone a sensational development. In only nine years, participation has skyrocketed from 271 beers (2004) to 1366 beers from 45 countries. It took the judges – a total of 102 brewmasters, beer sommeliers, and specialty journalists from 25 countries – two days to choose the world’s best beers in 50 beer categories (49 in 2011) in blind taste tests. They evaluated the beers purely on the basis of sensory criteria such as colour, aroma, foam, and of course flavour. On 14 November 2012, gold, silver, and bronze medals were awarded for European-style beers submitted by breweries from a total of 45 countries at the Brau Beviale in Nuremberg, Germany.
Darguner Brewery is part of the Danish Brewery Group Harboes Bryggeri A/S and located in Dargun, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. In early 2011, the brewery decided to install a new yeast propagation system from GEA Brewery Systems. This new system provides pure culture yeast for bottom fermented beers and is an essential part of the brewing process in Dargun.
For reasons of quality and efficiency, continuous wort monitoring in breweries is recommended. Using inline analytical instrumentation, wort concentration can be measured directly in the process every second. Warsteiner Brauerei has installed inline measurement systems for automatic process monitoring and control many years ago. Several measuring points on the lauter tun, wort boiler and wort cooler have been equipped with the LiquiSonic® Plato system supplied by SensoTech, Magdeburg. The measuring point on the lauter tun is important, in particular for optimizing wort yield.
In November 2011, it was made public: Nerb has closed its headquarters in Attaching near Freising. Esau & Hueber was acquired by the Bauer Group in 2008 and jumped at the chance to purchase the brand as well as the company’s expertise. About a year ago, BRAUWELT International visited Esau & Hueber in Schrobenhausen (cf. BRAUWELT International No. 4,
A lack of independent sources for information on the malting barley market was incentive enough for Roger Martin, a former maltster, to develop a unique business concept: He founded RM International (RMI), a company intended to not only fill this gap but to distribute this information in the malting barley market. His idea has proven to be a successful one, and therefore, two new German entrepreneurs have decided to pursue his business model as well.
Measurement technology is a serious matter. Virtually nothing functions in a brewery without sensors, which evaluate what is happening in the boiler, in the tank, in the
“indi coco”, 330 milliliters of pure coconut water, on sale for 1.89 euros online – and it all came about because Manoj, one of the three directors of the Cologne start-up enterprise behind this brand, had so enjoyed coconut water as a child in India. Now he is bringing it to Germany. Although it was heavily hyped in the USA, in India it can actually be bought at any street corner, fresh from the nut. Examples such as these demonstrate India’s vast latent potential for any beverage manufacturers who serve the market with modern packaging such as PET, and equally so for the producers of packaging and process technology for beverages, foods and the many small items required for everyday living. At Mumbai, from November 6 to 8, 2012, drink technology India (dti) and International PackTech India will offer a platform to bring together supply and demand for this sector.
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