ProBrewer Expert Topic • Volume 2025, Issue 01
Beverage Ingredients – exploring the latest in raw ingredients
This month’s ProBrewer Expert Topic takes a deep dive into what’s new and innovative in the world of beverage ingredients used in the brewing process
supported in part by Lallemand Brewing
Editor's Introduction to Beverage Ingredients – exploring the latest in raw ingredients
The craft brewing industry is evolving quickly, driven by creative new ideas in the industry and changing consumer needs. As the art of brewing evolves, so does the world of ingredients.
This month’s Expert Topic explores the latest trends, practical advice and what’s new in raw ingredients used by brewers, including best practices, the outlook for hops and barley in 2025, water issues and trends that are driving the industry forward.
Inside you will find articles on a diverse range of topics such as brewing with sake yeast, a look at the world hop and barley markets, exploring alternative brewing grains, understanding uncommon adjuncts and much more.
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Featured Articles in Beverage Ingredients – exploring the latest in raw ingredients
TTB Exempts 24 Brewing Ingredients from Formula and Approval Requirements
The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau (TTB) is expanding its list of exemptions from the formula requirements for brewery products made with certain ingredients by exempting 24 additional ingredients. The exemption of was in responds to two petitions filed by the Brewers Association (BA) requesting further exemptions from formula requirements. (more...)
Slow Beer Sales Causing Glut of Barley
As beer sales continue to decline, demand for barley continues to decrease. The number of acres planted in the U.S. this year is reportedly down by 22% compared to last year. (more...)
World Hop Market Remains Oversupplied
Despite a second year in a row of world hop acreage decline, hop production volume in crop year 2023 was higher year on year by 11.5%, according to a report just released from hop specialist BarthHaas. (more...)
Hop Acreage Down 18% in 2024
Remember the dire days eight years ago when demand for hops outdid supply and many craft brewers were struggling to acquire the hops they needed? Not so today, as beer sales have flattened and hop growers are responding by planting fewer vines in the fields due to an expected oversupply of hops. (more...)
Getting To Know Your Local Maltster
The popularity of local maltsters has exploded in recent years. Yet brewers still confess some trepidation over how to incorporate locally produced malts into their beer portfolios and brewing operations. We talk with Andrea Stanley, co-founder of Valley Malt in Hadley, Massachusetts, to explore the benefits of building a relationship with your local maltster.
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Four of the Best Ways to Deaerate Your Brewing Water, Depending on Your Budget
If you worked as a brewer at Sierra Nevada Brewing circa 2005, you would have had the luxury of deaerating the brewing water with an expensive deaerating column to reduce the amount of dreaded dissolved oxygen (DO) in your cold side processes. (more...)