BarthHaas, the international hop specialist, has awarded one of the 2023 BarthHaas Grants for scientific advancement to Dr. Nils Rettberg and Florian Schrickel of the Research Institute for Raw Materials and Beverage Analytics at the Research and Teaching Institute for Brewing in Berlin (VLB).
Rettberg and Schrickel’s team is investigating the question of how the quality and stability of intensively hopped beers can be enhanced by means of high-pressure non-thermal pasteurization processes. Willemart and Collin are studying the ways in which product stability is affected by the enzymatic activities of hops and spices that are added to the beer during fermentation.
This year’s other grant recipients are Guillaume Willemart and Prof. Sonia Collin who are both research scientists at the Louvain Institute of Biomolecular Science and Technology (LIBST) of the Catholic University of Louvain in the Belgian city of Louvain-la-Neuve.
BarthHaas is supporting each of these research projects with a grant of 10,000 euros. Since 2007, the annually awarded BarthHaas Grants have supported groundbreaking scientific projects at universities and research institutes. In many cases they have served as seed capital: Many successful projects attracted wide attention and could then be continued with public funding.
“The projects we have supported have again and again produced astonishing findings that are also valuable for us,” says Dr. Christina Schönberger, head of the Brewing Solutions team at BarthHaas. “Therefore, BarthHaas always has much to gain from this form of contact with scientists, too.”
The grants were awarded at the BrauBeviale trade fair in Nuremberg on Wednesday, November 29. BarthHaas hopes by means of the grants to arouse enthusiasm for hops, support research concepts, and, last but not least, establish and intensify contacts with promising young research scientists.
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