Conferences
Hot topics in the beer world, from brewing technologies, brewing skills, consumers’ expectations, trade, trends etc...
26/02/24 - Monday
"Do-it-yourself" Marketing
Frederik Picard
Managing Partner, ReputationsSelling your authenticity story with limited resources, time and skills. Every brewery does marketing. Every. But they all do it in a different way. Whilst traditional marketing via TV, newspaper and radio advertising remains the domain of the bigger companies (for budget reasons, mostly), the digital world has offered brewers of smaller sizes a lot of opportunities to increase visibility, presence and outreach to potential consumers.
Yeasts for wheat beers!
Gino Baart
Sales Manager – Northern Europe for Fermentis by LesaffreIntroducing SafAle W-68 & SafAle BW-20
Consumers are ready for Back to Basic ‘yeast-driven' beers including lager and wheat beers. In this presentation two brand new Fermentis yeasts (SafAle W-68 & SafAle BW-20) for the production of wheat beers will be introduced and compared with SafAle WB-06 and SafAle T-58 in terms of fermentation kinetics and flavour profiles.
How to boost beer tourism ?
Nicole Groot Zevert
Coordinator Culinary Flanders at Toerisme Vlaanderen, Visit Flanders
Sven Dekleermaeker
Brewing Manager, Duvel MoortgatWith more than 300 breweries in Belgium, and being ‘the number one’ beer country, initiatives are booming to push for beer tourism. Some breweries have developed tours, other have joined forces locally to create visit programme and advertise for it, others team-up with the local tourism office to get listed and have the tours promoted. This session will offer inspiration for brewers to then team-up with local or regional tourism office to promote beer.
Malt : Product Innovation
Cristal Peck
Product Innovation Manager, BelgomaltAs a biochemist and brewer, Cristal has always had a clear focus on innovation and science in beer and flavors. Cristal leads the Boortmalt Innovation Center in Antwerp. There, she has been experimenting with innovations in malt for several years. The focus is clearly on creating new flavors and beer experiences. Cristal will explain some of her projects in the presentation. The creation of new flavors will be central.
How to monitor the quality of your beer?
Wouter Vandevyver
Industry Development Manager F&B / Life Sciences, Endress+HauserDuring the ancient-old craft of brewing a brewer makes use of his experience and knowledge. During the brew process he can be aided by measuring certain parameters that give information on the properties and the changes in the beer. These measurements help to determine the optimal temperature, pH, density and other factors that affect the quality and the taste of the beer. During this session we will dive deeper into how and why these parameters need to be monitored and how they can improve the quality of your beer.
Substainability in hop growing
How can we address climate change and the increasing demand for sustainability in hop growing across various regions in Europe? A group discussion led by Benny Van Heule (HVB) with various persons actively involved in the European hop sector, namely Bart Boeraeve (Belhop), Carel Krol (Hollands Hophuis), and Francis Heitz (Compoir Agricole).
Carel Krol
Owner Hollands Hophuis
Bart Boeraeve
President Belhop and hop farmer
Francis Heitz
Export & Key Account at Comptoir Agricole / Hop France