10th Trends in Brewing ProgramDownload the program as pdf-file

  Sunday, April 1st, 2012
11.00 – 19.00 Technical Exhibition set-up and Poster Exhibition set-up
17.00 – 21.00 Symposium Registration, Get Together Party
  Monday, April 2nd, 2012
07.45 – 18.00 Registration
08.30 – 19.00 Technical Exhibition and Poster Session
  Symposium Opening
08.30 – 09.00 Welcome address and introduction to the symposium
Frank Baert, Guido Aerts, KAHO St.-Lieven, Belgium
  Session 1 The Market for Specialty Beers

 

 Chair: Christian Von Der Heide, East African Breweries Limited, Kenya
09.00 – 09.30 From monasteries to multinationals -- and back. The counterrevolution of the specialty beers
Jo Swinnen, KU Leuven, Belgium
09.30 – 10.00 Belgian specialty beers: opportunities and challenges
Theo Vervloet, President Belgian Brewers, Belgium
10.00 – 10.30 Specialty beer consumption and production in the US 
Steven Pauwels, Boulevard Brewery, United States
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break
  Introduction to Technical Exhibition

 

 Chair: David Quain, Heriot-Watt University, UK
11.00 – 12.30 Quick-Fire Presentations by Technical Exhibitors
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch - Technical Exhibition and Poster Session
  Session 2 Specialty Beers and Flavour Evolution of Specialty Beers

 

 Chair: Guido Aerts, KAHO St.-Lieven, Belgium
14.00 – 14.30 Concept test for the production of specialty beers
Gianluca Donadoni, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Italy
14.30 – 15.00 Grätzer Bier: A historic beer style reproduced with modern technology and specialty raw materials
Jens Voigt, Technical University Munich-Weihenstephan, Germany
15.00 – 15.30 New insights in TPO resulting from differentiated oxygen measurement
Frank Verkoelen, Pentair Haffmans, The Netherlands
15.30 – 16.00 Flavour evolution of Belgian specialty beers under the scientific loupe
Barbara Jaskula-Goiris KAHO St.-Lieven, Belgium
16.00 – 16.30 Coffee break
16.30 -18.00 Poster Session and Technical Exhibition
18.00 – 20.00 Official Welcome by Daniël Termont Lord Mayor of Ghent
Drink and Walking Dinner at the Technical Exhibition
  Tuesday, April 3th, 2012
08.00 – 18.00 Registration
08.30 – 19.00 Technical Exhibition and Poster Session
  Session 3 Innovations in Wort Production
  Chair: Frank Methner, Technical University Berlin, Germany
09.00 – 09.30 Malting in a new perspective of brewing Joep van Waesberghe, IVEWE, KAHO St.-Lieven, Belgium
09.30 – 10.00 Single grain analyses of differentially steeped green malts: Aeration impairs the homogeneity of relevant malt parameters Maik Kleinwδchter, TU Braunschweig, Germany
10.00 – 10.30 Shifts in microbial community structure during malting with emphasis on xylanase producing bacteria Sofie Malfliet, KAHO St.-Lieven, Belgium
10.30 - 11.00 Coffee break
  Chair: David Quain, Heriot-Watt University, UK
11.00 – 11.30 Partial substitution of barley malt by wheat bran in the grist results in lager beer with better taste profile and higher content in arabinoxylan-oligosaccharides (AXOS) Willem Broekaert, Fugeia NV, Belgium
11.30 – 12.00 Sensory descriptive analysis and investigation of consumer acceptance of wheat Beer Annette Schmelzle, University of Applied Sciences, Germany
12.00 – 12.30 Wort boiling vs. thermal desorption: stripping based on desorption, supports the classic boiling process with a more efficient evaporation and without using additional thermal energy Roland Feilner, Krones Ag / TU Berlin, Germany
12.30 – 14.00 Lunch - Technical Exhibition and Posters Session
  Session 4 Opportunities for Botanicals: Hops and Herbs
  Chair: Luc De Cooman, KAHO St.-Lieven, Belgium
14.00 – 14.30 Opportunities for hops Keith Westwood, Barth Innovations Ltd, United Kingdom
14.30 – 15.00 Revealing the impact of hops hard resin on the beers’ bitterness Michael Dresel, TUM, Germany
15.00 – 15.30 Breeding for new aroma impressions in hops Elisabeth Seigner, Bav. State Research Center for Agriculture, Germany
15.30 – 16.00 Coffee break
  Chair: Denis De Keukeleire, Ghent University, Belgium
16.00 – 16.30 Traditional vs advanced hopping of beer Adrian Forster, HVG e.G., Germany
16.30 – 17.00 Beers with new sensorial profile and functionality Ida Leskosek-Cukalovic, University of Belgrado, Serbia
17.00 – 17.30 Traditional recipes – a pool for specialty beer products? Roland Folz, VLB Berlin, Germany
17.30 – 19.00 Drink - Technical Exhibition and Poster Session
  Wednesday, April 4th, 2012
08.00 – 18.00 Registration
08.30 – 19.00 Technical Exhibition and Poster Session
  Session 5 Value from By-Products
  Chair: Dirk Iserentant, VIB, Belgium
08.30 – 09.00 Waste or high-value: How can we use spent grains? Craig Faulds, VTT Technical Research Centre, Finland
09.00 – 09.30 Modern extract recovery methods and zero waste from by-products in modern breweries Juan Juardo, Alfa Laval, Denmark
09.30 – 10.00 Polyphenol recovery from brewing process effluents and its use as an antioxidant agent in plastic packaging for food Benet Fitι, Mahou-San Miguel, Spain
10.00 – 10.30 Coffee Break
  Session 6 High Throughput or High Quality Processes
  Chair: Paul Hughes, Heriot-Watt University, UK
10.30 – 11.00 Leveraging your assets Frank Lynch, Lynch Technical & Innovation Services, Ireland
11.00 – 11.30 Operational aspects of membrane filter technology for the clarification of beer Reinoud Noordman, Heineken Supply Chain, The Netherlands
11.30 – 12.00 Optimization of the fermentation and maturation phases in beer production by adaptive flow design Enkhtsetseg Batchuluun, Institute of Fluid Mechanics, Germany
12.00 – 12.30 Continuous fermentations for beverage production Konrad Mόller-Auffermann, TUM Weihenstephan, Germany
12.30 – 14.15 Lunch - Technical Exhibition and Poster Session
  Session 7 Future R&D in Malting and Brewing
  Chair: Wendell Iverson, Leapfrog R&D, The Netherlands
14.15 – 15.15 Viewpoints of TUB (Frank Methner), HWU (Paul Hughes), KAHOSL (Luc De Cooman)
15.15 – 16.30 Round Table Discussion and Debate
  (1) Specialty Beer Quality: When Consumed? When Produced?
  (2) Brewing Processes: Traditional vs. High Throughput?
  (3) Future R&D in malting and brewing: from challenges to valorization
16.30 – 17.30 Concluding Remarks Stefan Lustig (President EBC)
17.30 – 18.30 Drink - Technical Exhibition and Poster Session
19.30 – 24.00 Symposium Dinner in the “Handelsbeurs” Ghent Centre
  Thursday, April 5th, 2012
  Technical Visits
09.00 Departure of the busses to the companies
14.00 – 15.00 Arrival at the Technology Campus, Ghent