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Whether you’re packaging your beer in kegs, cans, or bottles, it’s important to make sure that you’re doing it right. The resources in this section will help you reduce beer loss and package your beer to maintain freshness until it reaches the glass.

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Beer Freshness Series

This series provides resources on oxygen-monitoring methods and sensors and how to mitigate oxygen during brewing, cellaring, and packaging.Read More

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Brewers Association

The Quality Subcommittee envisions a membership that consistently produces beer of high quality. Quality for this purpose has been defined as: a beer that is responsibly produced using wholesome ingredients, consistent brewing techniques and good manufacturing practices, which exhibits flavor characteristics that are consistently aligned with both the brewer’s and the beer drinker’s expectations.

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Pasteurization: Getting Started With the Basics Man operating canning line

Pasteurization: Getting Started With the Basics

Understand the pasteurization unit (PU) calculation, equipment used, validation points, factors affecting PUs, and safety considerations.Read More

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Brewers Association

The Quality Subcommittee envisions a membership that consistently produces beer of high quality. Quality for this purpose has been defined as: a beer that is responsibly produced using wholesome ingredients, consistent brewing techniques and good manufacturing practices, which exhibits flavor characteristics that are consistently aligned with both the brewer’s and the beer drinker’s expectations.

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A Review of Dissolved Oxygen Sensor Technologies Beer bubbles around the title A Review of Dissolved Oxygen Sensor Technologies

A Review of Dissolved Oxygen Sensor Technologies

Learn about the three unique sensor technologies used in the measurement of dissolved oxygen in beer: optical, polarographic, and galvanic.Read More

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Brewers Association

The Quality Subcommittee envisions a membership that consistently produces beer of high quality. Quality for this purpose has been defined as: a beer that is responsibly produced using wholesome ingredients, consistent brewing techniques and good manufacturing practices, which exhibits flavor characteristics that are consistently aligned with both the brewer’s and the beer drinker’s expectations.

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An Introduction to Monitoring and Managing Beer Freshness Text reads Beer Freshness Series, An Introduction to Monitoring and Managing Beer Freshness against background of fizzy beer.

An Introduction to Monitoring and Managing Beer Freshness

This introductory resource will provide background on beer freshness, oxidations, and how to make practical process improvements.Read More

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Brewers Association

The Quality Subcommittee envisions a membership that consistently produces beer of high quality. Quality for this purpose has been defined as: a beer that is responsibly produced using wholesome ingredients, consistent brewing techniques and good manufacturing practices, which exhibits flavor characteristics that are consistently aligned with both the brewer’s and the beer drinker’s expectations.

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Recycling-Focused Legislation Impacting Breweries aluminum cans and glass beer bottles

Recycling-Focused Legislation Impacting Breweries

Recent activity in state and federal recycling-focused legislation has the potential to impact small craft brewers.Read More

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Brewers Association

The Sustainability Subcommittee serves the Brewers Association purpose by helping current members and future generations to brew the highest quality beers in a manner that strengthens the value of our businesses, increases the resiliency of the natural environment and agricultural systems that provide brewing ingredients, and enhances the lives of our workforce and the communities we call home.

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How To Manage Off Flavors in Beer: Mousy Off Flavor Series THP Mousy ( x )

How To Manage Off Flavors in Beer: Mousy

Download this cheat sheet on detecting and managing mousy off flavors, also known as "THP," by the Brewers Association Quality Subcommittee.Read More

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Brewers Association

The Quality Subcommittee envisions a membership that consistently produces beer of high quality. Quality for this purpose has been defined as: a beer that is responsibly produced using wholesome ingredients, consistent brewing techniques and good manufacturing practices, which exhibits flavor characteristics that are consistently aligned with both the brewer’s and the beer drinker’s expectations.

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Craft Beer Packaging Trends Recap – 2022 purple beer cans condensation x

Craft Beer Packaging Trends Recap – 2022

What happened with craft packaging in 2022? Dig into pack counts, sizes and formats for craft beer in 2022.Read More

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Economist

Bart Watson, Chief Economist for the Brewers Association, is a stats geek, beer lover, and Certified Cicerone®. He holds a PhD from the University of California, Berkeley, where in addition to his dissertation, he completed a comprehensive survey of Bay Area brewpubs one pint at a time. You can follow him on X, formerly known as Twitter, @BrewersStats.

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