Lagers in Germany

In this webinar, Denise Jones will go over German lager history, geography and brewing processes demonstrated in the German brewing tradition. It will offer some basic taxonomy of the lager strains and some general information about lager bier production. Denise will also identify various lager bier styles that hold great tradition in German brewing history. 

Speaker Bio

Denise Jones is a Technical Sales Support Manager for Fermentis that specializes in fermentations for distillates and other unique beverages, joining Fermentis in October of 2020. She has 31 years of brewing, distilling and beverage manufacturing experience, and has served as a judge for the Kombucha Brewer's International competitions, as well as an international beer judge for over 30 years. 

Denise attended the American Brewer's Guild in Spring of 1995 and has created award winning beers for Great Basin Brewing Company in Sparks, Nevada, Third Street Aleworks in Santa Rosa, California, and Moylan's Brewing Company in Novato, California. At Moylan's, she began making whiskey washes for the sister distillery, Moylan's Distilling, where she developed flavorful washes, assisted with distillations and barrel maturation decisions. In 2015 she accepted a position in Bamberg, Germany with Weyermann® Specialty Malts to become their Master Distiller/ Staff Brew Master, where she created biers, wines, whiskeys, gins, bier schnapps and Bavarian fruit brandies. Denise now lives in Norther Nevada and offers technical fermentation support to distillers in North, Central, and South America.