Talk Title: Crafting Better NA Beer: Advanced Hop Solutions for Flavour, Balance and Brewing Success.

Description: As the non-alcoholic beer category continues to expand, brewers face unique challenges in delivering products that match the flavour, balance, and drinking experience of traditional beer. This presentation explores how recipes and brewing processes can be adapted to overcome common issues such as limited fermentation character, reduced mouthfeel, excessive sweetness, off-flavours, and microbiological risks. Focusing on the use of advanced hop technologies—including concentrated hop pellets, liquid hop aroma products, and downstream flavour solutions—it will demonstrate how brewers can build complexity, improve flavour balance, enhance hop character, and create true-to-style non-alcoholic beers without the risks of conventional dry hopping. Through practical recommendations and commercial examples, attendees will discover how modern hop solutions can support flexible product development, improve brewery efficiency, maintain alcohol compliance, and help create innovative, consumer-focused non-alcoholic beer portfolios.

Location: Workshop

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