Exhibitors

The full exhibitor programme will be announced in the run-up to the event.

Bevcraft - Stand 805

Rachel is the founder of Women On Tap CIC, pioneers of initiatives that put brilliant women from the heavily male-dominated beer industry in the spotlight through a programme of activism including events, campaigns, and arts commissions.

She is also a marketing and brand consultant specialising in beer and the arts. In addition she is a proud Women in Beer mentor.

BrewWizz - Stand 705

We create innovative tools that help brewers boost efficiency and maximize profits. Beer and beverage geeks like us crave consistency and control over our final products. That’s where the FIZZWIZZ by BrewWizz—Bubbles Anywhere Edition—comes in. This fully automated carbonation system delivers perfect, stable carbonation every time, solving the all-too-common issues of inconsistency and instability. Whether you’re brewing beer, cider, kombucha, seltzer, or something else entirely, FIZZWIZZ has you covered.

Chart Industries - Stand 501

Reducing carbon footprint by capturing and recycling carbon dioxide emissions from the fermentation process is at the heart of Earthly Labs’ CiCi® technology. CiCi® is a proven system that enables breweries, wineries and distilleries to capture, recycle and purify exhaust CO2 to 99.9% beverage-grade quality for re-use. The technology is well renowned in the US and now available in Europe with UK assembly and a pan-European service network. CiCi® is available in 3 models according to capacity and site requirements and integrates seamlessly with parent company Chart’s liquid carbon dioxide storage and distribution products for a complete turnkey solution

CleanEarth Energy - Stand 604

CleanEarth is a leading provider of renewable energy to UK businesses, with over 600 solar PV and wind turbine installations across England, Wales and Scotland. They have worked with numerous breweries, both large and small, to reduce their carbon emissions and their energy costs.

Enterprise Tondelli - Stand 114

Since 1977 Enterprise Tondelli have been supplying bottling and canning solutions to the brewing and spirits industries. Whether you need a complete line or a single machine Enterprise Tondelli have the answer. From 1,500 bottles/cans per hour to 80,000 bottles/cans per hour.

Euroby - Stand 706

At Euroby, our services have enabled many companies and utilities to improve efficiency, reduce costs and increase the effectiveness of their waste management programmes and food and beverage production.

Fermentis - Stand 112

Our active dry yeasts and yeast derivatives cover almost all professional requirements: from safeguarding production to expressing sensory characteristics in beer, wine, spirits and more. Take a look at the various types of products in our range.

Figura Analytics - Stand 802

At Figura Analytics we count particles, of all shapes and sizes, to give you a ‘fingerprint’ of what your beer should look like at different stages of the production process. Using the Figura Analyser you can check that you beer is in spec and compare from batch to batch or brand to brand, as well as rapidly identifying abnormalities and potential contaminants, from bacteria to wild yeast. Seeing and understanding your brands like never before will help you do what you do best, brewing great beer.

HIT Training - Stand 606

HIT Training is the leading specialist training and apprenticeship provider for the UK’s hospitality & catering industry and the only training company offering the celebrated ‘Level 4 Brewer Apprenticeship’, collaborating with the University of Nottingham. The programme’s success is measured, not only through individual achievements, but also the measurable business performance impact.

Keg Logistics - Stand 113

Keg Logistics specializes in keg rental and keg leasing that benefits the brewer. Whether you have looked at rent to own kegs, lease to own kegs, or pay per fill kegs, Keg Logistics has you covered with its proprietary rent-to-own keg model. Our team is ready to serve your needs. Please reach out to any of our team below by phone or email. We are committed to your success and meeting your keg leasing needs.

Kersia - Stand 703

Continual investment in technical innovation, biotechnology, digitalisation, sustainability, and support services ensures Kersia UK, part of the Kersia Global Group, leads the field in brewery & beverage, food processing, dairy, and foodservice & facilities. Kersia continues to deliver CIP and hygiene solutions through revolutionary technology and an unparalleled commitment to service levels.

Konvoy - Stand 304

Konvoy provides a simple rental system that is suited to one-way trips. Konvoy delivers known costs to your business and a more sustainable solution with “pooled” keg rentals.

Muntons - Stand 704

Muntons is a UK based manufacturer and global supplier of world-class malts and malted ingredients. It provides a full portfolio of sustainable brewing malts, from crushed malt in sacks to the whole malt in bulk. Muntons’ brewing technology experts help breweries wanting support with areas including recipe development.

Regarded as the world’s greenest maltster, Muntons puts sustainability at the heart of everything we do. We work hand in hand with our suppliers and customers to lead the industry with sustainable malting methods, reducing carbon and conserving our natural resources from grain to glass.

NOMOQ - Stand 505

NOMOQ delivers to beverage makers, big or small, high quality printed aluminium cans with no minimum order quantity. We’re no ordinary printed can supplier. We love turning aluminum cans into works of art, so your great drink gets the packaging it deserves.

Pattesons Glass - Stand 603

Pattesons Glass is a leading global distributor of glass packaging, providing a range of innovative solutions for the food, drink, and cosmetics industries.

Rembrandt Labels - Stand 502

Rembrandt Labels (Brussels) is part of the Belgian Graphius Group, which also operates in the UK through Park Communications and Geoff Neal Printworks, both based in London. As a highly industrialised paper label printer (wet-glue and non wet-glue), Rembrandt Labels operates with three AI-controlled Heidelberg presses. We offer offset-quality printing with an exceptionally wide colour gamut (Multicolor), as well as gloss/matt finishes, metallic inks, and hot foil on a broad variety of papers. Labels can be square or custom die-cut in any shape, and are packed per 1,000 units or tailored to the specific magazine needs of your bottling line.

Today, he has the honour of running SA Brain & Co, an iconic Welsh brewery with a deep-rooted legacy. His focus is on preserving and evolving this historic brand, ensuring it thrives for future generations while making a meaningful impact on the community.

Sellar - Stand 801

Sellar Credit is the ultimate credit account for trade ordering. Sellar Credit is a Buy Now Pay Later solution that consolidates your orders into one simple monthly invoice, due at the end of the month + 30 days. Think of it as a monthly tab across all of your suppliers.

Simpsons Malt - Stand 601

Founded in 1862, Simpsons Malt is one of the largest independent, family-owned malting companies in the world with the capacity to produce around 300,000 tonnes of malt per year at its two malting sites.

The company’s passion is a focus on making malts with taste, flavour and consistently high quality with the world’s best brewers and distillers in mind, helping them to craft the finest beers and whiskies.

In November 2021, Simpsons Malt became a Certified B Corporation with a score of 89.6 points.

Before starting Tuletorn, Chris was the head of production and a founding member of Tallinn’s Põhjala.

Trafalgar Scientific - Stand 804

Ali Ross is the general manager at The Coach and Horses in Soho, London.

A revered and highly-regarded part of the capital’s hospitality scene, Ali took over running the Greek Street establishment in 2019.

Trafalgar Scientific are a laboratory supplies company , that specialises in Microbiology and Analytical Consumables, aimed at the Brewing Industry.

From HAACP verification using ATP swabbing, to setting up a full microbiology and QC lab. Trafalgar Scientific, can offer the full range of products.

We have over 30 years of supplying hygiene and laboratory capital and consumables into breweries – we can offer the full range of both equipment and consumables that you will use.

Before The Coach and Horses, Ali has worked for some of Fuller’s biggest and busiest London pubs, including The Hydrant, The Vintry and The Merchant, taking them from strength to strength.

A champion of excellent breweries from across the UK and beyond, Ali has ensured there’s no shortage of brilliant beer in one of London’s busiest, vibrant areas. She has also built up a formidable team which keeps customers coming back time and time again….

UBC Group - Stand 503

UBC Group is above all the distribution company working in B2B (business to business). We achieve our market goals by building an effective direct sales system. Our main goal is to fully and effectively meet the needs of our customers. We offer our services and products in the most convenient format for the customer. We choose where to open our branches first thing to provide the best service to our customers. We always try to anticipate the demands of the customer. For the customer, we are a supermarket of services and goods (commodity services), a place where the customer will receive the required goods and services (commodity services) within the minimum time and at the minimum price.

UK Flowtechnik - Stand 803

UK Flowtechnik is a joint venture company between UK Flow Ltd (the UK distribution arm of E-Holdings based in Germany) and Flowtechnik (formerly the process flow metering division of Hydrotechnik UK Ltd) UK Flowtechnik Ltd has been formed to build on the success of both companies in the manufacture and supply of flow meters, instrumentation, process sensors, specialist pumps, magnetic couplings and high quality hydraulic components. UK Flowtechnik Ltd offers products from quality brands such as: VSE, Beinlich, DST, HBE, Flomec, GPI, Lake Monitors, Seametrics, Elis Plzen, Bopp & Reuther and Comeco as well as many other quality brands. We also offer a competitive calibration & repair service.

VetroElite - Stand 605

Each Vetroelite bottle is born with an ever-evolving narrative force. It is the passion for our work that guides us in the creation of our designs. Our goal? To design bottles with a strong identity that challenge us to go beyond production limits to give shape to experimentation, always new. The result is an unexpected frame capable of immortalising thoughts and emotions, high-end packaging that will leave its mark.

White Labs - Stand 701

White Labs is the leading provider of yeast and fermentation solutions for all of your brewing needs. From the highest quality liquid and dry yeast to yeast nutrients and educational resources, we’ve got you covered.

schedule at a glance

23 September

13.00 Exhibition opens & beer tasting begins
14:00 Keynote address and lectures begin
16:30 Lectures end
17:00 Beer tasting ends
17.00 Full access ticket holders only
17.00 Brewers Choice Awards Party begins
22:00 Day One ends

24 September

10:00 Exhibition opens
10.30 Lectures begin & beer tasting begins
17:30 Lectures end
18:30 Exhibition closes
18:30 Day Two ends
19:00 Exhibitor breakdown
22:00 Breakdown ends

schedule

23 September 2024

EXHIBITION
09:00	Exhibitor early access
13:00	Exhibition & beer tasting opens

TIME	LECTURE STAGE	DISRUPTER STAGE
13:50	Welcome address Tim Sheahan Editor of the Brewers Journal
14:00	Keynote address David Gluckman David Gluckman was born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa on 1st November 1938, the day Sea Biscuit and War Admiral fought out the race of the century at Pimlico Park, Baltimore. Educated in Johannesburg, he joined a local advertising agency after university and soon fell in love with the business. He made the pilgrimage to London in 1961 and worked as an account executive on Procter & Gamble, Kerrygold, Lyons teas and several Unilever accounts. Always a frustrated copywriter, he escaped into product development in 1969, met a man from IDV and his life changed forever. The author of “That s*it will never sell!” David also helped create Bailey’s Irish Cream. During its time, it has sold billions of bottles across 160 countries with 220 million litres of fresh, Irish cream consumed annually. He’ll share his expertise on creating global brands, on how to keep faith and how to earn valuable buy-in when doubters pour scorn on your creativity.
14:30		Homebrew to pro Host: Andy Parker, Elusive Brewing; Luci Clayton-Jones, Double-Barrelled; Joanna Neale, The Malt Miller; Johnny Horn, Holy Goat Brewing Making the jump from homebrewing to professional – Leading advice from those that have been there and done that.
15:00	Brewing to style: Lager 101 Host: Radim Zvánovec, Budvar – Panelists: Laurence Brown, Lost and Grounded Brewers; Virginia Casadio, Duration Brewing, Vinny Rosario, Moonwake Beer Co; Jeremy Swainson, Utopian Brewing Best practice and guidance in lager brewing from some of the leaders in the field	Is Sustainable Packaging actually Possible? Host: Chris Lewington – Panelists: Mikhail Zelianouski, MyKegs A look at the common (mis)conceptions on packaging and how it can’t be sustainable.
15:30	Forging Your Own Path Mark Tranter, Burning Sky Mark will share the lessons learned in a career in beer from a brewery founder. Mark explains why Burning Sky’s rural location in Firle, East Sussex has both pros and cons, the development of their mixed fermentation offering and why when it comes to business, it’s important to understand that everyone’s aims and ambitions are different.	Decarbonising Energy in Breweries Panelists: James Fawcett, Thomas Fawcett; Dr Thomas Fudge, WASE; Chris Lewington, Brew Resourceful; George Wade, Zevero We delve into the current state of the energy market from a sustainability point of view, and look at the best current and future options to decarbonise.
16:00	Engage the Fine-Dining Sector Jorma Tikkanen, Do Good Brew Creating beers for fine-dining. Hear from a brewery co-founder that is creating food-pairing beers for Michelin-starred restaurants, and how you can do it too	Leveraging Digital Transformation Host: Melissa Cole -Panelists: Christian Barden, Konvoy; Rob Hollands, Proofworks; Kevin Smith, Made Smarter Demystifying digital transformation. What is digital transformation and how your manufacturing business can secure success from it.

EXHIBITION
16:30	Lectures end
17:00	Full Access Tickets only
17:00	Brewers Choice Awards and celebration begins
22:00	Brewers Choice Awards and celebration ends

24 September 2024

EXHIBITION
09:00	Exhibitor early access
10:00	Exhibition opens

TIME	LECTURE STAGE	DISRUPTER STAGE
10:20	Welcome address Tim Sheahan Editor of the Brewers Journal
10:30	Keynote address Philip Eeles, Honest Burgers Building a business, a team and the lessons learned along the way from the co-founder of one of Britain’s most well-known burger restaurants
11:00	Developing healthy – and tasty – beers Maria Paredes Ramos, Hijos de Rivera SAU A computational approach in the craft beer world. A review of work centred on being able design a la carte flavour profiles, incorporating those molecules that maintain consumers wellbeing but also show organoleptic attributes that improve taste perception.	No and Low: The Future Host: Melissa Cole – Panelists: Daniel Rowntree, High and Dry; Caitlín McErlean, Cloudwater; Oli Russell-Cowan; Liquid Death; Johnny Clayton, Big Drop How businesses can grasp the opportunities in a world away from alcohol.
11:30	Brewing with Kveik Todd M. Isbell, International Centre for Brewing Science An insight into the fermentation management, performance, and flavour expression of traditional Norwegian Landrace Yeast (Kveik)	Self Sufficiency in the Brewery Host: Chris Lewington, Brew Resourceful. Panelists: Faye Restall, Earthly Labs; Craig Smith, Pneumatech How you can become self sufficient when it comes to using gas in the brewery.
12:00	Relevance of hop terroir for beer flavour Ann Van Holle, head of R&D, Proefbrouwerij Not only variety but also ‘terroir’ may have a significant impact on the biochemical and brewing characteristics of hops and, consequently, on the resulting beer flavour profile. These insights may allow brewers to account for the potential impact of hop terroir on the consistency and quality of their beers, while it may open perspectives for subtle diversification in beer flavour profiles..	Session: On-flavour Masterclass Host: Natalya Watson, IBD Beer Sommelier, Advanced Cicerone® and WSET beer educator Natayla Watson, WSET beer educator, will explore the world of ‘on-flavours’. Join us and build your confidence in identifying and describing different aromas.
12:30	The survival of pathogens in non-alcoholic beers Dr Grzegorz Rachon, Campden BRI The outcome of two years of research into the survival of pathogens in non-alcoholic beers. The aim of this study was to evaluate the occurrence of pathogens in British and worldwide non-alcoholic beers available on the UK market, and to determine whether pathogens can survive or grow in non-alcoholic beers, and to determine the impact of pH and bitterness on their growth and survival patterns..	Sustainable Fermentation Speaker: Jassa Amir-Lang, co-founder, Frigid.Cloud The state of play in the energy crisis and how to adopt a sustainable approach to fermentation and refrigeration.
13:00	Lunch break	Lunch break
13:30	Maintaining Quality During Expansion Eloise Perkins, Quality Manager, Northern Monk Maintaining quality during expansion: Northern Monk is the fastest growing craft brewery in the UK off-trade. Here is how they ensure quality remains paramount during growth.	Brewing Law Daniel Finn, Legal Director, Brabners The legal changes and potential pitfalls every brewery must be aware of.
14:00	A Life in Lambic Thomas Vandelanotte, Head Brewer, Timmermans A dive into the wonderful world of yeasts that occur in the lambic world and what their specific contribution is to a traditional lambic.	Hops, Haze and your Beer Host: Melissa Cole – Panelists: Brett Ellis; Sophie De Ronde, Burnt Mill; Gareth Moore, Deya; Colin Stronge, Lost Cause Brewing Co. Best practice and guidance in hop-forward beer brewing from some of the leaders in the field.
14:30	Charting the Evolution of a Beer Brand Nick Dwyer, Creative Director, Beavertown Nick Dwyer is the creative director at Beavertown. An award-winning graphic designer and illustrator, He is responsible for Beavertown’s iconic designs and will reflect on their evolution from the early days to the here and now.	The Craft of Cask Host: John Keeling – Panelists: Derek Prentice, Henry Kirk Where Cask beer goes from here. How we can ensure it will not only survive, but thrive in the future.
15:00	Social Media Secrets Host: Tim Sheahan – Panelists: Sienna O’ Rourke, Pressure Drop; Richard Wardrop, Vault City; Amelie Tassin, Tipple Marketing; Tanith West, Toast Hospitality How you can boost your visibility, and your sales with effective and impactful marketing techniques.	Session: Off-flavour Masterclass Hosts: Tim O’Rourke, The Brilliant Beer Company/Brewers Journal, Tom Brown, Head of Global Marketing & Strategy, FlavorActiv Learn more about off flavours with this in-depth, off-flavour training course. Duration: 60 mins To register, please email: tom.brown@flavoractiv.com
15:30	The Heart of The Community Host: Paul Davies – Panelists: Anthony Adedeipe, Eko Brewery, Kateřina Türková, Beak, Miranda Hudson, Duration, Tom Fozard, Rooster’s Brewing Co, Jez Galaun, Brixton Brewery The heart of the community: How your brewery can be a focal point of your community and drive direct sales in the process – Ways to achieve it from those already doing it.
16:00	Closing Remarks

EXHIBITION
17:00	Lectures end
18:30	Brewers Congress 2024 ends

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