| Friday | Marquee Tent | Picasso & DaVinci Room |
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| 13h30 - 14h15 |
Registration and check out the BeerExpo
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| 14h15 - 15h15 |
Sensory training
- Troye May
Troye May
South Africa
Troye is a beer expert, judge and teacher with a passion for all things beer. His show #Beertime is probably the best beer podcast in the world - or at least in Africa. He is dedicated to sharing his knowledge and helping others discover the amazing and diverse world of beer.
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| 15h15 - 15h45 |
Network in the BeerExpo and find out the latest trends and innovations in beer
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| 15h45 - 16h30 |
Building a meaningful contract brand: The Nova Beer Project story
- Anja Van Zyl
Anja van Zyl
South Africa
As a food scientist and craft beer brewer for nine years, starting her own beer brand - Nova Beer Project - was a dream come true for Anja. She enjoys the science behind brewing as well as the creative aspect of developing new recipes and concepts. She finds inspiration for new beer concepts while mountain biking, trail running or hiking.
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The need for speed…brewing: Finishing the brew when loadshedding looms
- Rob Cass
Rob Cass
South Africa
Rob has been homebrewing for over a decade and is a national-rank BJCP beer judge. He has been involved with Wort Hog Brewers in various capacities, including chapter organiser and chairman. As an engineer, Rob loves the unique combination of process, creativity, equipment, and ongoing learning which defines brewing. Rob is also a committee member of the Craft Beer Association of South Africa.
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| 16h30 - 17h00 |
Visit the BeerExpo and start taking photos to enter our social media competition
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| 17h00 - 18h00 |
Off-centered Goodness for Off-centered People: The Dogfish Head Story
- Sam Calagione
Sam Calagione
USA
Sam Calagione has been focused on brewing beers with culinary ingredients since 1995 when Dogfish Head first opened as the smallest craft brewery in America. Today, Dogfish has grown into a 400+ person company and is one of the most recognised breweries in the country. Dogfish Head is based in Delaware, with Dogfish Head Brewings & Eats, an off-centered brewpub and distillery, Chesapeake & Maine, a geographically enamored seafood restaurant with a James Beard nominated cocktail program, Dogfish Inn, a harbour-front beverage-themed motel, and Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, a production brewery and distillery featuring a Tasting Room & Kitchen. Dogfish currently sells beers, spirits and canned cocktails across the U.S. In July 2019, Dogfish Head proudly merged with the Boston Beer Company. Sam’s innovative style and collaborative spirit has earned him a reputation as one of the industry’s most adventurous entrepreneurs and brewers. Sam has authored four books and was named the James Beard Foundation’s Outstanding Wine, Spirits, or Beer Professional in 2017. Sam, Mariah, and their family reside in coastal Delaware.
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| 18h00 - 18h30 |
Last chance to check out the BeerExpo until tomorrow!
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| 18h30 - 20h00 |
Food and beer pairing hosted by Melissa Cole
- sponsored by Krones & SKRLJ
Melissa Cole
UK
Award-winning beer writer Melissa Cole calls London home but works all over the world, from judging some of the most prestigious beer competitions, running events, collab brewing, training staff, advising burgeoning beer markets and trying not to set light to festivals while running cooking with beer demos. She’s also a Certified Cicerone with five beer books under her belt.
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| 20h30 - 22h00 |
Mötley Brüe: A band of brewers
- sponsored by Weyermann®
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| Saturday | Picasso & DaVinci Room | VIP Room |
| 09h00 - 09h30 |
Coffee kickstart and BeerExpo time in the tent
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| 09h30 - 10h00 |
Stop Putting Money Up the Chimney : brew with herbs and spices the smart way
- Melissa Cole
Melissa Cole
UK
Award-winning beer writer Melissa Cole calls London home but works all over the world, from judging some of the most prestigious beer competitions, running events, collab brewing, training staff, advising burgeoning beer markets and trying not to set light to festivals while running cooking with beer demos. She’s also a Certified Cicerone with five beer books under her belt.
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How to be our own social media brand ambassadors: Tools to communicate our beer projects
- Agus Blanco
Agus Blanco
Argentina
Agus Blanco graduated in psychology and has been working on whiskey and beer communication since 2012. Born in Buenos Aires and currently living in Madrid, she founded Lúpulo Digital, a marketing company specialising in the beer industry. She is also a Certified BJCP Judge, Cicerone Certified Beer Server, entrepreneur and content creator.
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| 10h00 -10h30 |
Networking break in the BeerExpo tent
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| 10h30 - 11h15 |
Discovering sake...closer to beer than wine
- Paco González Romero
Paco González Romero
Mexico
Paco is a beer, wine and sake sommelier and a representative for the Latin American regions of the Sake Sommelier Association. Hailing from Mexico, he is a consultant, trainer, communicator, judge and teacher with experience across a dozen countries throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America.
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Clearly you're unstable! Improving clarity, stability and shelf life in craft beer
- JC Steyn
JC Steyn
South Africa
After completing a degree in Viticulture and Oenology at the University of Stellenbosch, JC started working in the wine industry, including a long stint as head winemaker at Dornier Wines. He then had an epiphany and moved into the beer industry, becoming Devil's Peak Brewing Company's first employee in 2012. He has remained with the company - now called Signal Hill Products - and is now head of brewing and innovation. Well known and well-respected in the South African beer scene, when he's not brewing or filtering beer, JC can be found fishing, mountain biking or horse-grooming.
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| 11h15 - 11h45 |
Check out the BeerExpo for innovations, interactive tastings and more
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| 11h45 - 12h30 |
Beer + Music = Exponential Awesomeness: The intersection of music since the beginning of civilization and how Dogfish has played in this vibrant shared space
- Sam Calagione (in Marquee tent)
Sam Calagione
USA
Sam Calagione has been focused on brewing beers with culinary ingredients since 1995 when Dogfish Head first opened as the smallest craft brewery in America. Today, Dogfish has grown into a 400+ person company and is one of the most recognised breweries in the country. Dogfish Head is based in Delaware, with Dogfish Head Brewings & Eats, an off-centered brewpub and distillery, Chesapeake & Maine, a geographically enamored seafood restaurant with a James Beard nominated cocktail program, Dogfish Inn, a harbour-front beverage-themed motel, and Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, a production brewery and distillery featuring a Tasting Room & Kitchen. Dogfish currently sells beers, spirits and canned cocktails across the U.S. In July 2019, Dogfish Head proudly merged with the Boston Beer Company. Sam’s innovative style and collaborative spirit has earned him a reputation as one of the industry’s most adventurous entrepreneurs and brewers. Sam has authored four books and was named the James Beard Foundation’s Outstanding Wine, Spirits, or Beer Professional in 2017. Sam, Mariah, and their family reside in coastal Delaware.
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| 12h30 - 13h30 |
Grab your lunch from one of our food vendors and network in the BeerExpo tent
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| 13h30 - 14h15 |
Chasing hop flavour: How to brew a life changing IPA
- Nick Smith
Nick Smith
USA/South Africa
Nick believes great beer will change the world. After attending the Master Brewers Program at UC Davis, he spent ten years in the US craft beer industry including time in brewing, distribution, and sales. In 2016 he moved to Cape Town to start Soul Barrel Brewing, a brewery focused on local ingredients, barrel aging and making distinctly South African beer.
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Intro to beer judging
- Rob Cass
Rob Cass
South Africa
Rob has been homebrewing for over a decade and is a national-rank BJCP beer judge. He has been involved with Wort Hog Brewers in various capacities, including chapter organiser and chairman. As an engineer, Rob loves the unique combination of process, creativity, equipment, and ongoing learning which defines brewing. Rob is also a committee member of the Craft Beer Association of South Africa.
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| 14h15 - 14h45 |
BeerExpo time: make sure you take plenty of pics for the social media competition - you could win beer!
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| 14h45 - 15h30 |
Lessons and laughs from starting Rwanda's first craft brewery
- Jessi Fynn
Jessi Flynn
USA/Rwanda
Jessi Flynn leads Kweza Craft Brewery, the first craft brewery in Rwanda - and female led. A landscape architect by trade, Jessi moved to Rwanda in 2017 to design, but instead ended up working on local African ingredient beer recipes, supply chains, and business models, and registered Kweza in 2020, getting licensed in 2021.
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Bioactive compounds present in cannabis-infused and highly-hopped craft beers
- Puleng Zacharia
Puleng Zacharia
Lesotho
Puleng is an R&D Brewer and Master's student at Central University of Technology. She has qualifications in Microbiology and Food Science as well as a Post Graduate Diploma in Business Administration. She is currently pursuing Masters studies with a research focus on cannabis and hops' bioactive compounds in craft beer.
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| 15h30 - 16h00 |
Beer break: Grab a beer courtesy of Celli and explore the BeerExpo
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| 16h00 - 17h15 |
Same wort, different yeast - a comparative tasting
- Stéphane Meulemans (in Marquee tent)
Stéphane Meulemans
Belgium
As the General Manager of Fermentis by Lesaffre, Stéphane guides the Fermentis business developments across the world by adapting R&D, marketing, sales, supply chain and other business development related competencies, to continuously better address market needs related to yeast, yeast derivatives and bacteria for all fermented beverages, primarily for beer and wine. His dream for Fermentis is to become "the obvious choice for beverage fermentation." Before joining Fermentis by Lesaffre, he was active in the hop industry for more than 20 years, and ran his own brewery for 15 years. Stéphane is an active member of a number of global brewers associations and honorary member of The Belgian Knighthood of the Brewer's Mash Staff.
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| 17h15 - 17h45 |
BeerExpo prize-giving, gifts for the best social media user, vibiest stand and best dressed stand
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| 18h00 - 23h00 |
African Beer Cup Awards Evening @ Woodstock Brewery. Join us as we unveil all the medal winners, as well as the Best Beer in Africa
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