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Heart and soul - Malt innovations strengthen the backbone of beer
01/11/2018
With the increasing demand for fruity and piney India Pale Ales, hops often take centre stage in the beer world. That has not stopped many of the brewing industry’s finest minds from working to understand and improve malt, an essential co-star in the brewing process.
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Back to Brau - New three-year cycle kicks off with BrauBeviale 2018
By: Steve Curtis
01/11/2018
BrauBeviale is looking forward to once again welcoming professionals from the international beverage community to the exhibition halls in Nuremberg from 13 to 15 November 2018.
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Back to BrewDog - Hops, more hops, sour beer and spirits – Part 2
By: Roger Putman
01/11/2018
Last month we studied the effective, if annoying to some, marketing strategy employed by this company which is only just into its teens. We took a tour around the Rolec and Ziemann brewhouses and considered some future plans. The BrewDog drinks portfolio has also been enhanced by producing its own spirits, buying into an artisan cider maker and a huge investment in the up and coming sour beer sector.
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A review of Nathan brewing systems in Australia
By: John Harvey
01/11/2018
The Nathan System (NS) of brewing was the brainchild of Dr Leopold Nathan, a Swiss engineer, who registered a number of patents from 1894 to the 1930s; those relevant to his unique brewing vessels, fabricated from aluminium, were granted in 1908 and 1927.
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Celebrate! The Craft of Cider
By: Gabe Cook
01/11/2018
When Brewer and Distiller International comes a calling, asking for a round-up of what is happening in the world of cider, one drops everything and sets to work fervently. It’s quite telling, however, that I am writing this article not in the bosom of the verdant rolling green hills of traditional UK cider country, but instead on the shores of majestic Lake Kawaguchiko in Japan, with the most awe-inspiring spectre of Mountt Fuji looming in front of me.
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Cerveza grande! Resurgence of the beer sector in the Basque Country
01/11/2018
Throughout Europe, the USA and Canada, there are examples of continuously operational breweries dating back 200 to over 900 years. Brewing in Spain however, started late in the game and suffered a hiatus in the 1980s and 90s leaving the country with no long-history operations. Here, we look at the development of the industry in the Basque Country highlighting the recent resurgence of the beer sector.
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Meet and bleat! Carnivale Brettanomyces 2018
By: Ed Wray
01/11/2018
Welcome to Carnivale Brettanomyces, the annual beer festival dedicated to Brettanomyces and other less common yeast and bacteria. Its goal is to educate and inform the audience about the great and different spectrum of beers brewed with these outsiders, and to share and taste a wide range of them. Ed Wray reports from Amsterdam.