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VOLUME 63, NUMBER 1 - 2003
Good day to all. As I write, fall is fast approaching, with the leaves on the trees turning colors and temperatures cooling, so winter will not be far behind. I know this letter will reach you after the holidays. So Happy New Year!
I attended two very important meetings as the ASBC representative—the MBAA Convention in Austin and the BCOJ Annual Meeting in Tokyo. At the MBAA Convention, we had a very productive meeting with the IGB, EBC, AOB, and MBAA. The meeting highlighted the need to continue efforts with our cooperative agreements to address pressing issues of the industry. It was also agreed that the societies will arrange to meet at the other meetings. The next opportunity exists at the EBC Congress in Dublin.
The planning and technical program groups of the WBC 2004 met in Austin to continue the planning and budgeting process. The main topics and outline for the meeting schedule were discussed.
At the BCOJ Annual Meeting in Tokyo, the local scientists presented papers and posters that had been presented around the world the previous year. They were reviewed by all members of the brewing science community. This is a very vibrant and active group, which continues to further science. I learned a lot from our Japanese colleagues, who continue to strive for excellence.
After the BCOJ meeting, I attended a dinner with the board members and members of the Analysis Committee and the Program Committee. We enjoyed shabu-shabu. I remember some beer, sake, wine and whiskey being consumed and a good time being had by all. (Note: Bendiak-san is good with chop sticks.) I also saw the majestic Mount Fugi (pictured above).Thanks again for the hospitality from all the BCOJ members, who made my visit enjoyable and memorable.
The Technical Committee has begun the subcommittee work for this year. Some of the subcommittees have enough participants from around the globe to be international in status. I just want to thank all of the volunteers and their managements for the time and effort they give. I hope the new world of electronic contact has helped.
The ASBC Board will meet in February to continue to review and direct the activities of the society. It will endeavor to ensure that we are meeting our strategic goals and meeting or exceeding the needs of our customers and members.
Our Program Committee, directed by Karen DeVries, continues to expand the program, and we can look forward to an excellent meeting. I just want to remind everyone again that the ASBC national meeting is scheduled for June 7-11, 2003, in the Tamaya Resort, Santa Ana Pueblo, just north of Albuquerque, NM. I look forward to seeing you there.
Dirk S. Bendiak
President
CONTENTS
Final Call for Nominations
Student Travel Grant Program Fund Solicitation and Participation
Local Section News
Coming Soon: ASBC Interactive
EBC News
Siebel Institute Moving
Past Presidents
Final Call for Nominations
The ASBC Nominating Committee is seeking to identify qualified Society members to serve on the Board of Directors. Nominations for the offices of treasurer, vice-president, and president-elect are required for voting at the 2003 Annual Meeting in Albuquerque.
The term of office for treasurer is two years, from the close of the 2003 Annual Meeting through the close of the 2005 Annual Meeting. The term of office for the vice-president is one year, beginning at the close of the 2003 Annual Meeting. However, because the vice-president is the principal candidate for president-elect and subsequently succeeds to the offices of president and past president, a commitment of four years is expected from this nominee. Following the same progression, a commitment of three years is required of the nominee for president-elect.
Because of the important roles these nominees play in the future of your Society, the Nominating Committee seeks your help in identifying qualified members to fill these positions. In making your suggestions, please remember that all nominees must be active members of the Society, be willing to serve, and have the permission and support of their employer or management. Nominees chosen by this committee will be published in the No. 2 issue of the Newsletter for 2003.
Please direct all nominations to any member of the Nominating Committee (listed below) by Feb. 1, 2003.
Robert Maruyama, Chair
Coors Brewing Company
PO Box 4030
Mail #BA300
Golden, CO 80401-0030
303/277-6499
Fax 303/277-2675
E-mail rob.maruyama@coors.com
David W. Hysert
John I. Haas Inc.
P.O. Box 1441
Yakima, WA 98907-1441
509/469-4011
Fax 509/469-4080
E-mail: dave.hysert@johnihaas.com
David S. Ryder
Miller Brewing Company
3939 W. Highland Blvd.
Milwaukee, WI 53208-2816
414/931-3062
Fax 414/931-2452
E-mail ryder.david@mbco.com
Michael Davis
American Malting Barley Assoc.
740 N. Plankinton Ave., Suite 830
Milwaukee, WI 53203-2403
414/272-4640
Fax 414/272-4631
E-mail mpdavis@execpc.com
Student Travel Grant Program Fund Solicitation and Participation
Our ASBC students are the future leaders of ASBC and the brewing industry. This year, once again, ASBC will sponsor students so that they may present their work as papers or posters at the Annual Meeting. The Student Travel Grant Program covers partial expenses for students. These students greatly appreciate the financial assistance they get to attend the meeting and network with brewing experts. The amount of the grant is determined by the amount of funds raised for the program and the number of eligible students.
All ASBC student members, graduate or undergraduate, who are at least 21 years of age are eligible to apply for these awards. All interested students should send a written request (up to 300 words, typed) to attend the Albuquerque, NM, meeting; a copy of the abstract that will be submitted to ASBC; and verification of ASBC student membership.
Funds are needed so that the ASBC can continue to offer support to these future leaders. If you have already contributed to this important program, the ASBC thanks you. If you have not contributed in the past or have not contributed yet this year, please consider doing so at this time. Any corporation, ASBC local section, or individual who would like to contribute, may forward its contribution to Linda Schmitt, ASBC, 3340 Pilot Knob Road, St. Paul, MN 55121. Checks should be made payable to the ASBC Student Travel Fund.
Thanks in advance for supporting our students and getting involved with developing future leaders of the brewing industry. Who knows? Maybe one of these students will be a future member of your organization.
Local Section News
Local Section 1—New York
A joint MBAA/ASBC meeting will be held the week of Dec. 9 at one of the local microbreweries.
Dennis Lenahan
President
Local Section 2—St. Louis
The October monthly meeting of St. Louis Local Section 2 was held on Oct. 23 in the Lemp Mansion Coach House, with 33 members in attendance. After dinner, John Hegger, brewing construction manager at Anheuser-Busch, gave a presentation about the recent modernization at the St. Louis brewery.
The November monthly meeting of Local Section 2 was held on Nov. 21 at SqWires. The speaker was Rodney Bothast, director of the new National Corn-to-Ethanol Research Pilot Plant on the campus of Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. Twenty-six members and seven guests were in attendance. The meeting was sponsored by Perkin Elmer (thanks to Doug Onesco and Richard Skubish).
Stephanie Judge
Vice-President
 Participants at the Local Section 2 meeting in November. Left to right, John Seibold, manager, Quality Assurance, Anheuser-Busch; Phil Colombatto, vice president, Quality Assurance, Anheuser-Busch; Ron Tomasella, Durkin Equipment Company, president of Local Section 2. |
Local Section 3—North Central Section
A joint meeting with the ASBC and MBAA was held on Sept. 11 at the City Brewery, in LaCrosse, WI. A technical presentation was given by Joe Dirkson of Ecolab on the long-term effect of chemical use on gaskets.
An upcoming joint meeting is scheduled for Nov. 13 at the Summit Brewery, St. Paul, MN. A technical presentation is being given by Rahr Malting Company on the 2002 Crop Report.
Gerri Kustelski
Secretary/Treasurer
Local Section 4—Milwaukee/Chicago
Local section 4 held a meeting on Nov. 21 at the Miller Inn, Miller Brewing Company in Milwaukee, WI. Dick Leinenkugel, the VP of sales at Leinenkugel Brewery, gave a very interesting talk on the rich family history at the brewery, a description of their brands, and their sales and marketing strategy.
Mike Scanzello
Secretary
Local Section 6—Canada
A meeting is in the planning stage for the new year.
Rob Stewart
President
 Nona Mundy, manager, Anheuser-Busch, collecting for the ASBC Foundation from Jack Quade, Perkin Elmer. |
Coming Soon: ASBC Interactive
As an additional service to enhance your current member benefits, ASBC will soon launch ASBC Interactive on ASBCnet. ASBC Interactive is the place where you can update your member record, purchase a book, sign up for a continuing education class, or register for the Annual Meeting. To help facilitate networking among our global membership, discussion communities will also be a part of ASBC Interactive. In addition to these options, access to the membership directory and the journal will also take place through ASBC Interactive. This is only the beginning; in the near future, other options will be added, including renewing your membership, becoming a member, and much more.
ASBC Interactive is built so that it works directly with ASBC’s database. When you sign in, the system will know who you are and will automatically provide pricing and options that correspond with your membership status. Within the next few weeks, all members will receive an e-mail message from ASBC Headquarters with their personal usernames and passwords. You will need your username and password to access the ASBC Journal as well as the membership directory.
All ASBC Interactive transactions are completely safe, secure, and instantaneous with our database. Watch for further information in the Newsletter and your e-mail on how to use this up-to-date interactive tool.
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EBC News
New Council Members
Dr. Stéphane Dupire (Interbrew, Belgium), Mr. Francisco M. Ferreira do Amaral (Central de Cervejas, Portugal), and Mr. Glen Sörlie (Ringnes, Norway) were nominated as new council members. They succeed Mr. E. van den Eynde, Mr. J. M. Machado Cruz, and Mr. S. E. Kjekshus, respectively.
New Mission Statement for EBC
The Council adjusted the Mission Statement of EBC to fit the new focus: cooperation with 'The Brewers of Europe' (CBMC). The direction of EBC is changing from exchanging information only internally for technical people and sharing information to drive the brewing science forward, to influencing a broader spectrum in Europe. The new Mission Statement reads as follows:
To be the pre-eminent expert organisation of choice in Europe for all brewing, governmental and technical organisations acting co-operatively in pre-competitive areas of brewing and malting science and technology for the benefit of the brewing industry, consumers and the community.
The objectives have been adapted in accordance with the mission statement. The full text is available from the EBC Secretariat (secretariat@ebc-nl.com).
Cooperation with The Brewers of Europe (CBMC)
Closer interface. EBC will increasingly connect its activities with those of CBMC. A close interface between EBC and CBMC should ensure that proper and speedy action can be taken to prepare status reports that can serve to lobby for and to defend the industry at the EU level. EBC’s core business will be to supply scientific/technical arguments to do so. EBC wishes to start building expertise in new topic areas (e.g., safety, mycotoxins, and environmental issues) to support CBMC, while also maintaining its traditional activities. To better cope with this, EBC’s structure will be adapted, e.g., by reshaping the Technology and Engineering Forum.
Joint Lecture Session at Dublin Congress. The EBC Congress in Dublin (May 17-22, 2003) will offer a good opportunity to inform delegates of these new developments. In addition, a joint EBC/CBMC half-day lecture program will be arranged on that Wednesday afternoon. Papers will deal with trade-related issues such as alcohol, market, and environmental issues, preceded by a general introduction to the objectives and organization of CBMC and the cooperation with EBC.
HACCP Working Group. A joint EBC/CBMC Working Group on HACCP has been installed to develop an “Industry Code of Practice.” In view of the EU Food Law and the requirement for traceability, it was thought to be of great value if such a guideline could be developed to give methodology for quantifying risks in site-specific processes. The outcome of the work undertaken will be presented at the Dublin Congress.
The 29th Congress
Table Top Exhibition. The official invitation brochure with detailed information on the exhibition and a registration form has been distributed. Copies are available from the EBC Secretariat.
Lecture Program. The lecture program has been assembled. Areas covered include beer and health (three papers), consumer issues (four papers), flavor and flavor stability (six papers), packaging (two papers), raw materials (four papers), yeast and fermentation (seven papers), risk management (four papers), and processing (seven papers). Professional update sessions are included as a new feature. These are meant for “learning and refreshing knowledge” and comprise instructive papers rather than original scientific papers. Topics covered by these parallel update sessions are raw materials (seven papers), hygiene (five papers), product quality (seven papers), and PCR-based methods (seven papers).
Provisional Program with Registration Form. The provisional Congress program with registration information is expected to become available in January 2003.
Symposia
Future EBC symposia will include Mycotoxins and other Contaminants in the Malting and Brewing Industries (Jan. 26-28, 2003), Environmental Issues, Sanitary Engineering, Quality Systems, and Sensory Evaluation and Drinkability.
Siebel Institute Moving
In December, the Siebel Institute of Technology moved from its campus in North Chicago to new facilities at 1777 N. Clybourn St. (Suite F). New classrooms have opened at Goose Island Brewpub, one of the largest regional breweries in the country, operating two brewpubs and one large packaging brewery in the Chicago area.
The first program to be held in the new teaching facility at Goose Island will be the World Brewing Academy International Diploma Program in Brewing Technology (Feb. 3 to Apr. 25). Students will spend seven weeks at the Chicago facility and then five weeks at Doemens Academy in Munich, Germany.
Past Presidents
1934-35 Max Henius*
1935-36 F.M. DuPont*
1936-38 Robert Schwartz*
1938-40 George S. Bratton*
1940-42 Leo Wallerstein*
1942-44 Fred P. Siebel, Jr.*
1944-46 Bryn H. Nisson*
1946-48 Christian Rask*
1948-50 Philip P. Gray*
1950-52 Carroll A. Dayharsh
1952-53 Stephen Laufer*
1953-54 Lawrence E. Ehrnst*
1954-55 Kurt Becker*
1955-56 Ulysses C. Gramsch*
1956-57 Fred C. Baselt*
1957-58 William C. McFarlane*
1958-59 Eric Kneen*
1959-60 Mortimer W. Brenner*
1960-61 George E. Bredt*
1961-62 Allan D. Dickson*
1962-63 Irwin Stone*
1963-64 John B. Bockelmann
1964-65 Robert W. Rummele*
1965-66 Dwight B. West
1966-67 Philip E. Dakin
1967-68 Robert I. Tenney
1968-69 J. Robert Piening
1969-70 William J. Olson*
1970-71 Leonard T. Saletan*
1971-72 G. Calvin Dyson, Jr.
1972-73 Vincent S. Bavisotto
1973-74 F. Lloyd Rigby
1974-75 Michael R. Sfat
1975-76 David J. Lubert*
1976-77 Donald D. Brumsted*
1977-78 Harold H. Geller*
1978-79 Paul K. Steinke*
1979-80 Ronald A. Latimer
1980-81 Arthur J. Rehberger
1981-82 Roger A. Carroll
1982-83 Kurt C. Duecker*
1983-84 William A. Hardwick, Jr.
1984-85 James McDougall
1985-86 Phillip D. Israel
1986-88 Charles W. Baker
1988-89 Richard L. Berndt*
1989-90 David W. Diffor
1990-91 Inge Russell
1991-92 Richard E. Pyler
1992-93 Peter W. Gales
1993-94 Sherman H. Chan
1994-95 James H. Munroe
1995-96 Rob McCaig
1996-97 Bruce Sebree
1997-98 Dave Thomas
1998-99 David Hysert
1999-00 David Ryder
2000-01 Nona Mundy
2001-02 Rob Maruyama
(*) Deceased
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