Brewers of Pennsylvania Symposium

Breakfast courtesy of Social Sponsor: Blue Marsh Insurance

Fermentation and Litigation will cover the main areas of litigation that impact breweries throughout Pennsylvania, including: dram shop, negligence, nuisance, premises liability, and breach of contract. Although many breweries in the Brewers of Pennsylvania are well established and may have legal counsel for issues of compliance, the goal of this presentation is to provide knowledge, context, and comfort to this otherwise intimidating area of law. Many businesses do not think about these issues until they occur, but being prepared and having knowledgeable counsel to speak with can help prevent these issues and handle them if they arise.  

This session  provides insights on strategies to reduce taxes and collaborate effectively with a CPA, best practices for benchmarking and essential data points for monitoring, achieving healthy profit margins in the post-pandemic era, and discusses successful strategies and challenges facing profitable breweries.

Time to rejuvenate. Coffee and mid-morning snacks courtesy of Social Sponsor: 

Part 1: HOW - stay with me! • Broad overview for applications of GE yeast in the real world • Intro Genetic Engineering in Saccharomyces cerevisiae • How these are regulated – GRAS

Part 2: WHY – cool things we can do with GE yeast in beer • Approaches to design of GE yeast for beer • Highlight two examples: • DKO™yeast • Thiolized® yeasi

Staff training and customer education can be intimidating, the "nice to haves" that you never end up having the time or budget to tackle, but it doesn't have to be that way. An educated staff will sell more beer, and an educated consumer will buy more beer, so why are so many breweries overlooking education? Together we'll demystify the challenges of training your team, offer strategies for training in less formal settings, and talk about ways to bring your customers along on your educational journey."

The decision to self-distribute or not has been a serious one for many brewers since the explosion of the craft beer industry and is a heavier choice than ever post-pandemic.

Must be present to win!