Broadcast Date: February 23, 2016 | 10:00am - 11:00am Central Standard Time
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About the Webinar
Amidst daily quality checks and unexpected issues that arise in the brewery, documentation can be easy to overlook. This webinar reviews why documenting key procedures and information improves the quality of your lab data and beer quality by extension. It also provides different documentation strategies that work for breweries of many different sizes.
“Documenting the Way to Improved Quality” is split into three sections with three great speakers. Aaron Golston, Lagunitas Brewing Company, will first discuss documenting work instructions and change logs to improve data consistency and validity, as well as the importance of version control. Ben Chambers, Ninkasi Brewing, will then review process mapping as a valuable way to determine sampling and control points. Finally, Kate Devine, Russian River Brewery, will provide valuable explanations on tracking routine data analysis and generating quality reports.
About the Presenters
Aaron Golston,
Lagunitas Brewing Co., Chicago, Illinois
Aaron earned his Master’s from UC Davis in Charlie Bamforth’s lab. After which, he worked for MillerCoors as an Analytical and Microbiological Specialist at their Irwindale Brewery. In 2013, he joined Lagunitas Brewing Company as the Quality Manager for their new Chicago Brewery. In 2015, he completed his Diploma Brewer.
Ben Chambers,
Ninkasi Brewing, Eugene, Oregon
Ben’s been in the food and beverage manufacturing industry for over 12 years and specific to the beer industry on and off for 7 years. He’s worked for both craft and macro beer companies on teams for quality, R&D and production. His focuses have included lean manufacturing (Six Sigma), food safety (HACCP, SQF) and formalized continuous improvement combined with conventional brewing science as guidelines for raising the bar on the industry as a whole.
Kate Devine,
Russian River Brewery, Santa Rosa, California
Prior to working in the lab at Russian River Brewing Company, Kate Devine worked as a QA/QC assistant manager at an SQF food production facility. She then took on the position of lab manager at Left Hand Brewing Company to further develop her passion for beer. Returning home to California she joined the team at Russian River eager to work with sour and barrel aged beers.
