Advanced Hop Extracts: Transforming Hop Utilization in Modern Brewing Science

This webinar will give an overview of advanced hop extracts and how they can be used in breweries
to increase cost savings and consistency without sacrificing aroma. It will cover what advanced hop
extracts are, what types of products are available, and explore case studies of how they can be used.

3 key learning objectives:
Learn about what hop extracts are, learn about the types of hop extracts and how they are made,
learn about how they might best be utilized in the brewery

This webinar is intended for Intermediate level experienced professionals.

Speaker Biography:
Jacob Kirkendall is a scientist with KalHops. His focus there is on development of advanced hop
extracts with application in both alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages. Before joining KalHops,
Jacob was a brewing instructor at Kalamazoo Valley Community College and worked at Short’s
Brewing Company in their quality control laboratory. In 2017, while interning at Bell’s Brewery, he
published research relating to dry hop creep and its effect on ethanol production in beer. Jacob
received his Bachelors in Chemistry from Western Michigan University in 2017 as well as a
certificate in Sustainable Brewing from Kalamazoo Valley Community College the same year.