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This week, on Brewer’s Perspective, Marcus and Anthony discuss how breweries can implement sensory training programs to improve upon their beer.

Our guest is Tina Panoutsos, Senior Manager of Beer Knowledge at Carlton & United Breweries.

With three decades in the brewing industry in roles across Quality, Education, Brewing Innovation and Sensory & Consumer Science, Tina has specialised in understanding the role of sensory and consumer preference through various research projects in support of beverage innovation and beer engagement.

In this fascinating chat, we discuss the importance of sensory training and how breweries can incorporate it within their teams. Tina also explains the dos and don'ts of entering beer in competitions and how brewers can improve upon their entries.

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Welcome to the first episode of a new podcast, Brewer's Perspective.

Brews News created the first Australian beer podcast way back in 2011. As Brews News has evolved we discuss the news of the week and also the backgrounds of industry people, probing their experiences in the industry. If you haven’t heard it, you may well be interested in the industry news and insights those shows contain.

Very regularly we get asked to tackle topics that are quite niche and quite technical. The topics are often ones that we would really like to explore, but may be a little off topic of Radio Brews News

That’s one of the reasons we created the BreweryPro channel as the home for content that has higher value but for a more limited audience for our general listener.

Next week the first episode is titled, There’s No Five Second Rule In Brewing, and looks at brewing cleanliness and sanitation. It features Aron McGarrity from Ecolab, but as you’ll hear when it drops, it not looking specifically at chemicals but how brewery design and planning, and systems can make sure your beer is the best it can be.

But before we do that, we wanted to introduce our hosts to give you a little background on the people who will be anchoring the discussions, Anthony Clem and Marcus Cox.

Anthony Clem has been a guest on Beer is a Conversation more than once. During his time with Lion discussing XXXX Pale Ale and also during his time as Head Brewer at Hemingways in Cairns. More recently he worked was a Member of the Quality Committee for the IBA and the judging panel of the RNA, recently started a business as a Brewing Consultant with the intent to give brewery owners the capability and insight to live their dreams of building a craft brewery creating consistently great quality craft beer.

Marcus Cox Hired by Newstead Brewing Co in January 2021 to add some fundamental quality structures, quickly becoming Head Brewer in March. He was the first Australian to judge at European Beer Star awards in Munich, 14 year IBD member and MBAA District Pittsburgh re-founder, former VP and current Past President.

You can join the discussion in the new Facebook group.

In this BreweryPro podcast we meet winemaker-turned-business development manager for Burkert Fluid Control Systems, Luke Houlihan.

We discuss with Luke how fluid control can assist brewers with consistency and replicability in brewing, especially as they scale...and also how it can assist them with scaling.

Brews News ran a story last week detailing the concerning results of a pilot study by Queensland Health. The study saw an analysis of the abv of 25 craft beers and compared the results to the ABV declared on the label.

Eighty per cent of the samples fell outside the allowable variation.

We understand anecdotally that these results have been replicated more widely in informal testing by other bodies.

Following that story, BIRA - Brewing Interlaboratory Reference Analytes - and is the brewing industry’s not-for-profit testing scheme - issued a statement noting that as food and beverage manufacturers, compliance with labelling standards is critical, especially in such a sensitive area as ABV labelling where there are real consumer safety issues at stake.

The group encouraged brewers to participate in the scheme that works to improve the accuracy and reproducibility of analytical beer testing.

We heard from a number of BIRA members and others with a keen interest in market quality of beer wanting to discuss the issue and what follows is the recording of that panel discussion.

In addition to explaining the work of BIRA, this conversation covers a wide range of issues around beer quality testing and its importance.

The 2020 Joe White Signature Malt is sourced from a grower in Tungamah, a small farming community in the Central Murray region of Northern Victoria.

Liam Moltoni, Malt Barley Merchant at Boortmalt, talks us through the reasons this year’s Signature malt was made from Baudin barley and what makes Signature malt special.