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Another great show at Nürnberg

By: Roger Putman

01/12/2007

Brau is like an old friend; solid and dependable. The event is relaxed, suppliers are pleased to talk to you and after quite a few years now, we know our way around. The 2007 exhibition was no different, but there were 1800 fewer visitors occasioned by the drivers of Deutsche Bahn striking over their pension rights so some day delegates, particularly those from the east, failed to make it. Were there a lot of Brits there? I am afraid not.

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One for the record books

By: Various Authors

01/12/2007

Once in a generation it seems a major market shift takes place. This happened – so I’m told – in 1972, I remember in 1984 a more modest market rise but the 2007 harvest is certainly one for the records. And it’s not over yet! Not only has this been a season of high price volatility – mainly upwards – but it has also been one of the most stretched-out, extending the pain for buyers and traders everywhere.

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Filtration – the facts

By: Paul Buttrick

01/12/2007

When I first started in the brewing industry, filtration was something carried out down in the cellars or across in the ‘packaging store’. Even in France where I worked in my first brewery, it was ‘dans les caves’. Today, with take-home beer beginning to outstrip onsales, beer with a 12 month shelf life required closer attention to filtration and stabilisation. With consolidation of breweries and focus on capacity utilisation and efficiency of packaging lines, beer quality and filter problems are no longer acceptable. ‘Right first time’ is the requirement.

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46,000 visit Denver

By: Dave Thomas

01/12/2007

For the first time in the twenty-six-year history of the Great American Beer Festival (GABF), all three evening sessions – as well as the Saturday afternoon members-only event – were completely sold out before the festival opened its doors.

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Brewers hit Music City

By: Roger Putman

01/12/2007

The Master Brewers of the Americas descended on Nashville in Tennessee for their 120th annual convention last month. Choosing a Friday evening for the President’s opening party, all 500 delegates and exhibitors were winging their ways home again first thing on Monday morning. The venue was a vast 2881 bedroom resort called the Gaylord Opryland with a series of long corridored accommodation blocks interspersed with nine whole acres of indoor foliaged atria and a 44ft waterfall. Musicians garbed in green gear warbled on lily pads and some US guests christened it ‘Nashvegas’ but we were not there for the environs but continuing professional development.

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Of Spaten and Sedlmayrs

By: Ian Hornsey

01/12/2007

It was two hundred years ago this year that a relatively straightforward brewery purchase in a southern German city initiated a series of events that were to transform the European brewing scene totally and irrevocably.

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Spinning cone column distillation

By: Pedro Moreira da Silva, Bert de Wit

01/12/2007

In 2006, the world production for low-alcohol beverages (LAB) and non-alcoholic beverages (NAB) was 33 million hl. Plato Logic says this represents a growth of 4.4% over the previous year. A growing market for dealcoholised products also exists in Europe, driven by stricter ‘drinking and driving’ regulations, a changing social attitude to alcohol consumption and promotion of light beers for their intrinsic qualities. For over ten years, the Spinning Cone Column (SCC) has been successfully applied for managing the flavour and alcohol content in reduced and low alcohol wines.