European brewers ahead of schedule with better ingredients and calorie labelling, continuing brewers’ leadership amongst the alcoholic drink sectors on transparency towards consumers.

This infographic shows the declines in the harmful use of alcohol in the WHO EURO region between 2010 and 2016, including on heavy episodic drinking, alcohol-related deaths and number of years of life lost (DALYs).

Ths infographic shows the declines in the harmful use of alcohol (heavy episodic drinking and alcohol-related deaths) in the European Union, Norway and Switzerland between 2010 and 2016.

The Method 7.4 “Lead Conductance Value of Hops, Powers and Pellets” now contains two updated chapters (“Procedure” and “Precision”).

This document presents the 2018 Beer Statistics edition of The Brewers of Europe. It contains data over beer production, beer consumption, the on-trade/off-trade repartition, import and export, number of breweries, direct employment and excise duty revenues.

Beer Serves Europe launches latest sector report from The Brewers of Europe

BRUSSELS 4 December 2018. Europe’s beer production rose to an eight-year high in 2017 bolstered by record exports, a rise in micro-breweries and increased low-alcohol products.

After a successful debut event last June, the Brewers of Europe Forum aims to go even further for its second edition. 2018 proved to be yet another fruitful year for the European beer sector. The new generation continues to impress with its creative ideas while the largest breweries aim to invest and promote the qualities of good European beer. Such undeniable expansion could only warrant another event dedicated to bringing countless professionals into the spotlight.

Detection and enumeration of intestinal enterococci in drinking water. Descriptors: membrane filtration, incubation. For full details see: ISO 7899-2:2000 Water quality — detection and enumeration of intestinal enterococci Part 2: Membrane filtration method. 

Detection and enumeration of Escherichia coli and coliform bacteria in water for human consumption. Descriptors: most probable number (MPN), chromogenic / fluorogenic method. EBC method 4.4.2 “Escherichia coli and Coliform Bacteria”, is based on EN ISO 9308-1: 2000 ‘Water quality — detection and enumeration of Escherichia coli and coliform bacteria. Part 1: Membrane filtration method’. This method has been reported to have low selectivity and is not well suited for routine laboratory analysis of water.  The following methodology is now accepted in most countries as a national alternative to the EN ISO method.

It is necessary to use EBC Microbiology 2.2.3.4

Detection and enumeration of Clostridium perfringens (including spores) in water. Descriptors: membrane filtration, selective medium. As stated in : Council directive 98/83/EC On the quality of water intended for human consumption : Annex III Specifications for the analysis of parameters.

The detection and confirmation of Fusarium in barley and malt. Descriptors: kernels incubation,  selective medium.

The detection and confirmation of storage fungi (Penicillium and Aspergillus) in barley and malt. Descriptors: incubation of kernels, storage fungi, surface disinfection.

Detection of the fraction of kernels contaminated with different fungi. Descriptors: cultivation on wet filter paper, germination, surface disinfected, stereomicroscope.

Any sample of barley or malted barley. This method can also be applied to other dry grains such as wheat, and is most useful for trending of results over a period of time rather than for absolute analysis. Descriptors: total aerobic count of yeast and bacteria in malt and barley, serial dilution.

Any sample of barley or malted barley. This method can also be applied to other dry grains such as wheat. Descriptors: detection and enumeration of presumptive coliforms in malt and barley, serial dilution.

Monitoring malt, barley and Brewers’ grains (also called spent grains) for the presence of Salmonella. Descriptors: selective agents, primary enrichment, secondary (selective) enrichment, selective plating.