Dr Martin Hageböck has been the new head of the VLB Research Institute for Biotechnology and Water (FIBW) since the beginning of January. Dipl.-Ing. Sandra Dounia was appointed as his deputy.
The hop specialist BarthHaas has honoured Dr Nils Rettberg and Florian Schrickel, scientists at the Research Institute for Raw Materials and Beverage Analysis at VLB Berlin, with its BarthHaas Grants 2023 award.
On 9 October 2023, the General Assembly of the Versuchs- und Lehranstalt für Brauerei in Berlin (VLB) e.V. unanimously elected Jens Hoffmann, Managing Director Technology and Logistics of the Haus Cramer Group, to its Administrative Board.
The 13th Iberoamerican VLB Symposium Brewing & Filling Technology of the VLB took place in Bogotá, the capital of Colombia, from 4 to 6 September 2023.
VLB Managing Director Dr. Josef Fontaine was also invited to give a presentation about trends in the brewing industry at the 6th China International Brewing Conference (CIBC) 2023.
After Ethiopia and two online versions in 2021 and 2022, the 4th Africa Brewing Conference was held again this June as a face-to-face event in Douala, Cameroon.