Chairman : Carlos SILVA FERREIRA

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09.00 - 09.30         A tribute to Etienne De Clerck, son of the famous Prof. Jean De Clerck

Xavier PIRLOT, Bières de Chimay, Belgium

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09.30 - 10.00         AB-InBev Prize awarded to promote excellence in our first cohort of graduates

of the newly revised "Advanced Master Degree in Brewing Engineering", Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

Carlos DEUS and Serge DEBOOT, AB-InBev, belgium

Sonia COLLIN and Yvan LARONDELLE, UCL, Belgium

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10.00 - 10.30         Gluten-free craft beers

Laurence VAN NEDERVELDE, Meurice R&D, Belgium

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10.30 - 11.00         Coffee Break

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SESSION III. THE DRY HOPPING PROCESS

                                 

11.00 - 11.45          Sensorial analyses of dry-hopped beers produced with advanced technology

Thomas SHELLHAMMER, Oregon University, USA

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11.45 - 12.15           Humulinone bitterness in belgian dry-hopped beers

Carlos SILVA FERREIRA, UCL, Belgium

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12.15 - 14.00          Lunch

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Chairman : Cécile CHENOT

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14.00 - 14.30          New developments for dry hopping

Jacques GROS, AB-InBev, Belgium

 

14.30 - 15.00          Polyfunctional thiols and their precursors in new dual-purpose hop varieties

Cécile CHENOT, UCL, Belgium

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15.00 - 15.45          Coffee Break and IPA tasting (offered by brewers)

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15.45 - 17.30          Round table with hop producers. What flavours to expect in the future from new

hop varieties                         

Cécile CHENOT with Yakima Chief, Hopsteiner, comptoir Agricole, Belgian hop producers

 

19.00 - 23.00         Farewell Dinner