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News Application Deadline for Michael Jackson Foundation Scholarship is Friday June 23
Michael James Jackson Foundation, which funds technical education and career advancement for black, indigenous, and people of color in the brewing and distilling industries is now accepting applications for the Spring 2023 enrollment period. The application deadline is this Friday, June 23rd at 9:00 pm EDT.
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Expert Topic Four Takeaways from the 2023 Craft Brewers Conference
Bursting at its tasseled seams, downtown Nashville experienced one of the busiest weeks that locals could remember. With Taylor Swift playing several sold out shows in her adopted hometown, along with events ranging from a Janet Jackson concert to several local graduations, the capital city welcomed the 2023 Craft Brewers Conference and its nearly 12,000 attendees, 600 exhibitors, and more than 170 speakers. Let’s review some takeaways from this year’s conference.
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Expert Topic 2023 Craft Brewers Conference Wrapup
The 2023 Craft Brewers Conference is in the books and will be remembered for a lot of reasons for a long time to come. Following a few slow years due to COVID-19 and economic issues, more than 10,000 people descended into Nashville to mingle with Taylor Swift fans, take educational seminars, shop on the expo floor and to look for meaning or to make sense of the current landscape.
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Expert Topic Preparing for The Craft Brewers Conference in Nashville
Nashville is a great city for getting together with friends. Following a successful Craft Brewers Conference in the Music City a few years ago, the Brewers Association pointed the party back to the Tennessee capitol for several days of education, expo shopping, meetings, and fun.
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News UC Davis Brewing Pioneer Dr. Michael Lewis Launches Scholarship
Dr. Michael J. Lewis, iconic UC Davis brewing professor and founder of the UC Davis Master Brewers Program, has launched the Michael and Sheila Lewis Scholarship in Brewing, a merit-based award that recognizes academic and professional success in the industry.
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News Falconer Foundation Offering Full Scholarship to Siebel Institute Concise Course
In collaboration with the Seibel Institute of Technology, the Glen Hay Falconer Foundation is offering a full-tuition brewing education scholarship in 2023. The scholarship is a full tuition grant and comes with a travel and lodging stipend.
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Sponsored Storytime with Marcus Baskerville of Weathered Souls Brewing Company
Posted sponsored by Craft Beer Professionals
In this conversation, we will speak with Marcus about his most impactful experiences over the past several years and dive into stories that he does not often get to share.
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News Mental Health: How to Take Better Care of Your Employee
The beer industry has been slow to recognize the challenges to employee mental health posed by its unique set of characteristics. Any job can be stressful, but mix in long hours in industrial work spaces and routine and frequent access to alcohol and it is easy to see how mental health and substance use issues can arise.
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News How To Create Or Improve Your In-house Tasting Panel
Creating an active, engaged in-house tasting and sensory program should be top of mind for brewers of every size. You spend so much time planning, brewing, cleaning, and often just trying to survive, outsourcing the beer sensory element of your business to consumers in your taproom or even machine or lab testing can be tempting. While there is great value in using lab work or your frontline tasters as part of your overall mechanism for ensuring product quality, it remains crucial to have a diverse array of brewery employees routinely taste and assess the quality and consistency of the beers that you produce. Let’s take a look at some key points in creating a tasting and sensory program.
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News Why and How to Encourage Outside Training for Your Brewery Employees
Your team is set, and the business is humming along. Employees seem happy, the customers are keeping the coffers full and the tanks busy and for the first time in a long time you, as an owner, have a moment of peace and calm. Then reality sets in and thoughts of the future creep into your brain.
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News Developing a Successful Mentorship Program for Employees
The American craft beer industry likes to talk about being small and independent and removed from big business culture. Living in the realm of small business it cultivates a scrappy and local image that resonates with a lot of consumers.
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News 2022 World Beer Cup Winners Announced
It’s a wrap. The 2022 Craft Brewers Conference (CBC) and World Beer Cup (WBC) have concluded in Minneapolis with a projected 10,000 attendees. The Brewers Association handed out 307 awards to breweries from 57 different states in the largest WBC to date with over 10,000 entries.
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News Extended Time Off – Offering Brewery Employees a Sabbatical
The human condition is designed for wandering and exploration. To expand the mind, horizons, and to collect experiences as we hurdle through life. We are also the only species that pays to live on the planet and as such need employment to keep us stocked with basic necessities and shelter. At times the desires and needs can be in conflict.
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News BA Announces 2022 Industry Award Winners at CBC
The Brewers Association announced the recipients of its 2022 Industry Awards. Five members of the brewing community were recognized and awarded for their dedication and service during the Craft Brewers Conference in Minneapolis, Minn. The Brewers Association has been recognizing individuals who inspire, defend, and innovate within the craft brewing industry since 1987. New this year was the addition of the Mentor of the Year Award to recognize volunteers who provided outstanding guidance through the fledgling Brewers Association mentorship program and championed those who experience barriers to access and advancement in their professional journeys.
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Sponsored What to Consider in Starting a Brewery Career
Posted sponsored by Beer Edge
Every beer drinker has been there at least once. It’s a great day at the local taproom. Pints are flowing and everything just tastes great. A sense of desire creeps up and the entrepreneurial spirit rises. The idea to open a brewery of your own, or at least work at one, is born.
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News CBC 2022 – The Minnesota Brewing Spirit, Getting Outside the Cities, and a Few Tips of My Own
Minnesota is often derided as a so-called fly-over state that folks on the coasts never consider visiting. And for many Minnesotans, that suits them just fine. They know the value of their home state, especially the gem that is the Twin Cities. The same applies to Minnesota made beer. “Our breweries are relatively unassuming, maybe unpretentious,” says Jess Talley, the recently minted director of the Minnesota Brewers Guild. “That’s kind of a Minnesota cultural humility there that I think a lot of people may know as a stereotype of Minnesotans. Our brewers take a lot of pride in their work. And they should, we have a lot of amazing, award-winning beers here. But you’re not going to see a lot of Minnesotans gloating about that.”
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