The Craft Brewers Conference and BrewExpo America return in 2019 and this year the event comes to Denver. 13,000 brewing professionals are expected to descend on Colorado for more than 70 educational seminars, 800 exhibitors and much more.
Following successful events in Washington DC, Nashville and Philadelphia in recent years, the latest iteration of the Craft Brewers Conference and BrewExpo America comes to Denver, Colorado in 2019.
Organised by the Brewers Association, the event is designed to connect small and independent craft with their colleagues and to share ideas and learn about relevant topics ranging from brewery operations to sustainability and government affairs, while shopping for the products and services they need to run their breweries.
Here are some of the exhibitors not to miss at this year’s event.
Aesus Packaging Systems
Aesus Packaging Systems offers one of the most complete range of automatic labeling equip-ments, including shrink sleeve applicators, patented Hybrid shrink tunnels, inline pressure-sensitive labelers and rotary labelers (PS and cold-glue). Turn-key solution for shrink sleeve ap-plication on cans and bottles for speed ranging from 30bpm up to 400bmp. Our patented Hybrid Shrink Tunnel is combining steam (with a built-in steam generator) and Infra-Red within the same chamber. All the benefits of steam without the downside and associated costs.
Anton Paar
Anton Paar produces high-quality measuring and analysis instruments for laboratory, research and industrial applications. It is a leading supplier of instrumentation for key analytical parameters within the global brewing industry. With renowned laboratory instruments and process systems, the standard has been set for beer and wort gravity, alcohol, extract, DO / TPO, CO2, haze measure-ments and derived parameters. Our product portfolio also includes viscometers, rheometers, po-larimeters, refractometers, microwave synthesis, microwave decomposition, and instruments for X-ray structure analysis.
BrauKon
BrauKon delivers turnkey brewery systems dedicated to craft breweries worldwide. Our 30 master brewers and engineers plan, design and build top-quality brewery systems that are highly flexible, economically efficient and profitable without compromising on beer quality. Our technical center – BrauKon BrauTechnikum – is the ideal location for our individual custom-tailored training courses which optimally prepares you for the new technology of your BrauKon system.
BrewNinja
BrewNinja is the all-in-one brewery management software dedicated for craft breweries of all sizes. From Inventory, Brew Scheduling, Keg Tracking, Sales and our own Point-of-Sale, we allow brewers to ensure compliance with local laws and track their Cost of Goods down to the very pint. Brewers and owners rely on our cloud platform to gain visibility into their brewery and manage day-to-day operations may they be at the brewery, home or even another country. Along with our feature rich platform, accountants alike enjoy our deep integration with QuickBooks Online and Square to ensure end to end data flow.
BSG
Since 2004, BSG CraftBrewing has earned the trust of our customers by delivering the finest brew-ing ingredients at competitive values, all backed by outstanding customer service and depth of in-dustry experience. We continue to search the globe for new and interesting brewing ingredients that we can bring to our customers. Consequently, our product list continues to grow as we strive to better meet your needs. Additionally, our knowledgeable and friendly sales and management staff comes from the brewing community itself, so we can assist you in everything from recipe formula-tion to troubleshooting.
Cascades Containerboard Packaging
Cascades Containerboard Packaging is the largest corrugated box producer in Canada and a lead-ing North American player. Cascades IMGN retail solutions offers efficient, integrated and global retail solutions for the beer market. We use only high-quality printing technology relevant to your project whether it’s shelf ready, retail product packaging or POS and displays. For Cascades, the branding and retail solutions we create for you are not out to tell a story — they’re out to send a message.
Cask
Cask Brewing Systems has been working with the Craft Brewing industry since the early 1980’s when we started supplying brewing equipment and ingredients. In 1999 there was a large decline in the craft brewing industry due to over-supply. The industry declined from 1800 craft brewers to 1300 over three years. Small brewers who had made capital intensive investments in their brewing equipment were left with excess capacity. They were looking for creative and economical ways to increase sales. We realized that there was a need in the market place to solve that problem and our solution was to utilize the aluminum can to increase sales. We started building small manual and automated systems. Now we offer affordable canning solutions for small scale breweries, wineries, cider mills and drink manufacturers worldwide. Cask has installed over 1000 canning lines in over 51 different countries throughout the world.
Charles Faram
Charles Faram Inc., based in Portland, Oregon, supplies British, EU, US and New Zealand hops, as well as a full range of hop aroma and flavor products. These hop aroma and flavor products from our HopInspiration™ range include HopBurst™ for dry hop and HopShot™ for late hop aroma and flavor. If you want to try something new and unique from our breeding program or just quality hops for existing recipes, we will do our best to help you.
Criveller
For more than 30 years, Criveller Group has provided exceptional brewhouses in all sizes and configurations as well as stainless steel tanks and equipment for breweries around the world. In addition to new equipment and tanks, Criveller Group offers design services and experience phone and onsite technical support. Criveller Group supplies best-in-class brewhouse tanks, fermenta-tion tanks, pumps, chillers, keg washers, keg fillers, distillation systems, bright tanks, bottling equipment, fillers, cappers, plate and frame filters, D.E. filters and heat exchangers.
Descon Integrated Conveyor Solutions
Descon is a provider of integrated conveyor solutions and premium processing and packaging equipment for the beverage, food, and container manufacturing industries. For more than 25 years, we have supplied best-in-class conveyor solutions for turnkey projects and retrofits for existing systems, with a focus on fluid fill for the hot and cold beverage category.We are committed to listening to the needs of our customers. We will design conveyor solutions for your production requirements, taking into account all aspects of your manufacturing line that will be integrated with ours to ensure we add maximum value to new or existing lines. The designs we create for you come to life in our manufacturing center, and we install your conveyor solution and provide training at your site. Throughout the life of your Descon conveyor system, you can rely on your partnership with us for ongoing service and support as your needs change and grow.
First Key Consulting
First Key is a consulting firm that has specialized in the brewing industry for over 30 years. We have worked in over 50 countries and have some of the most talented, interesting and experienced consultants to provide clients independent, comprehensive and integrated solutions in every area of their business. Areas of service include: New Breweries and Expansions, Engineering Services, Quality and Process Optimization, Product Innovation, Financial Services, Commercial Services, Supply Chain, Human Resources and Agribusiness.
Kegshoe
Kegshoe Inc. is a software company for the beer industry that provides user-friendly, cloud-based solutions to manage the complex business of running a brewery. With features like keg tracking and brewery-specific CRM, Kegshoe Inc. is helping breweries solve their biggest and most expen-sive problems.
New-Line Hose & Fittings
New-Line stocks food grade hose, fittings, and components that are used in breweries. The com-ponents used in these applications cannot contaminate or impact the taste or quality of the product being conveyed – so very high quality, tightly controlled compounds must be used in manufactur-ing the hose, fitting, or component. We recommend using brand names with proven, reliable track records and ease of traceability. Depending on the application, some of these products will meet FDA, NSF, USDA, or Sanitary 3A standards. We carry a range of special sanitary fittings and stain-less steel valves and components. For cleanup and washdown applications, we also carry spe-cialty high temperature washdown hoses, nozzles, and steam stations.
Novaflex Hose
Novaflex Hoses are reliable, safe with long service life. Novaflex offers a complete line of material handling, petroleum, food grade, chemical and mining hoses, marine hose products, expansion joints and connectors.
Novaflex is a leading manufacturer of flexible ducting and hose products designed for superior flexibility; high temperature, chemical and abrasion resistance using ad-vanced thermoplastics and textile technology.
Packaging Technologies
Packaging Technologies Inc. presents “Crafting the Connection”, a leading manufacturer of In-Store theatre and impactful packaging for the Craft Beer Industry. We offer 4pk/ 6pk carriers, 12pk/ 24pk beer boxes, Gift packs, beer trays, and custom Point of Purchase displays. All items are available in small and large volumes. Crafting-the-Connection offers a full suite of in-store diagnostics and execution. We specialize in 4 sectors: Custom Packaging and At-Shelf Solutions, Digital Interac-tions, Store Environments and Pop-Ups, Display Experts
Prospero
Prospero Equipment Corp. is a brewery equipment supplier with 5 locations in North America (Pleasantville, NY / Geneva, NY / McMinnville, OR / Windsor, CA / Montreal, QC). We provide full sales, service, parts and consultation for our clientele making Prospero a great one stop solution in regards to brewing equipment. Full turnkey solutions are available for beginner breweries and up-grade solutions for existing breweries.
Ska Fabricating
Ska Fabricating was established in 2012 & specializes in small-footprint equipment for the craft brewing industry. We provide solutions for depalletizing or re-palletizing, conveyance integration and packaging line quality control. We also have the guys from Modular Conveyor Express with us if you want to learn more about optimizing your production flow & increasing efficiency.
Specific Mechanical Systems
Since 1986, Specific Mechanical Systems has handcrafted brewing and distilling systems for the craft beer and spirits industries. Started as a two person company, those two founders remain owners and employee a team of over 85 people. Our mission is to provide the world’s finest hand-crafted brewing and distilling systems. Experience and quality has positioned us as industry lead-ing manufacturers. Customer service has established us as the industry’s preferred choice. Our consultative approach ensures your involvement in our project and our assistance with your opera-tion. We’re here for you.
Stanpac
For 70 years, Stanpac has been manufacturing dairy and beverage packaging for companies located throughout the United States, Canada and many locations worldwide. Back in 1949, Stanpac provided closures for glass milk bottles. Since then, we have continually expanded our product lines with new products and innovations for the ice cream, fluid milk, wine and spirits, and most recently, food service packaging markets. The evolution of a great company continues with the introduction of new products, sizes and configurations for an ever changing market. With 7 patents in more than 20 countries, we are recognized by our customers as innovative and customer focused.
Tonejet
Tonejet is a powerful digital print technology designed to meet the needs of the metal decorating industry. Using our patented state of the art electrostatic drop-on-demand nozzle-less print heads we have designed and built the Cyclone C4, a direct to beverage can digital printing system capable of printing empty, necked cans. With an incredibly low printed ink volume, resulting in the same look and feel of conventionally printed cans, the Cyclone C4 is ideally placed to offer a solution for small batch beverage can decoration.
United Bottles & Packaging
Your most reliable source for distinctive and quality packaging for the craft beer & cider industry since 1994. We offer the largest selection of fast from stock bottles in North America. Bulk or pre-packed. Fast turnaround time. Guaranteed pressure ratings. 3 distribution centers (Montreal, Los Angeles & Denver). North American & German Glass only.
Zenan Glass
Zenan Glass is the largest glassware decorator in Canada and one of the top 5 largest glass dec-orators in North America, specializing in supplying and branding glassware for the beer, liquor, wine and food service industries. The Canadian arm of our company has featured on the Profit Top 100 Fastest Growing Companies for the last 9 years in a row!