Chop is fine. Trust me. Chop is fine. Is chop fine, Captain Ted? Jordan Belfort in The Wolf of Wall Street, 2013. Chop is NOT fine and we are in very choppy waters with International Sea Freight costs skyrocketing and massive shipping delays and port congestion globally. When will this all end? We asked the questions and give you our best guesses at the answers with a little help from our friends in the global freight forwarding business.

Here we share a Craft Beer Professionals Spring Virtual Conference, April 19-21 2021 presentation by Dr Jim Withee, Founder and President of GigaYeast Inc. on Yeast Management in the Brewery - Harvest, Storage and Re-Pitching Best Practices.  Jim Withee is a scientist and fermentation fanatic. He received a PhD for his research on yeast genetics (Stanford University, 1997) and worked at the Saccharomyces Genome Database. Jim founded GigaYeast, Inc. in 2011 where he currently serves as President, Chief Scientist and Head Janitor.

Traditionally, the top topic of conversation we have with Craft Distillers is about spirit yield. That’s not to say we don’t have plenty of conversations about varieties, the harvest and product innovation, but understanding yield is really important. Here we share a great blog from our great mates at Crisp Malt on the topic.

BeerCo.com.au Crisp Malt Craft Distilling Webinar #001 ... Here we explore the barley growing season and cycle and the new upgraded Peat Furnace at Crisp Portgordon Malt Plant at the northern tip of Scotland. Peating Furnace, Floor Malting and the state of the art modern spiral Roasting plant alongside specialty malts and cereals make Crisp Malt a first choice supplier to premium large multinational distillers and smaller innovative flavour forward craft distillers.