Professor Reinhold Schildbach passed away on 14 October 2019 in Berlin at the age of 86. He was known for decades as one of the world's leading experts in brewing barley and hops.
About 300 brewing experts from Southeast Asia, Europe and America attended the 6th Bangkok Brewing Conference, which took place from 9 to 11 June 2019 in Bangkok, Thailand.
For the first time in its 136-year history, VLB Berlin is organizing four of its major brewery conferences on four different continents in one single year: Europe, Africa, Asia and America.
On its annual meeting in the Europa-Park Rust, Germany, on March 11, 2019, the VLB Technical Scientific Committee (TSC) has elected Dr. Stefan Kreisz, Erdinger Weißbräu, as new Chairman