Brewing chemists recognized with ASBC Award.The American Society of Brewing Chemists The ASBC is a professional organization of scientists and technical professionals in the brewing, malting, and allied industries. It publishes an journal, the Journal of the American Society of Brewing Chemists, usually four times a year. (ASBC ASBC American Society of Brewing Chemists (St. Paul, MN) ASBC American Small Business Coalition ASBC Air and Space Basic Course (USAF) ASBC Archaeological Society of British Columbia ) has awarded Barry Axcell, Anna Cameron-Clarke and Sandra van Nierop (pictured above, left to right) with the 2005 Eric Kneen Memorial Award during the 2005 ASBC Annual Meeting, held June 11-14, 2005 in Savannah Savannah, city, United States Savannah, city (1990 pop. 137,560), seat of Chatham co., SE Ga., a port of entry on the Savannah River near its mouth; inc. 1789. , GA. The Eric Kneen Memorial Award is presented to the author or authors of the best paper in the Journal of the American Society of Brewing Chemists, the organization's signature publication. Axcell, van Nierop, and Cameron-Clarke won for their article "Enzymatic Generation of Factors from Malt Responsible for Premature Yeast Flocculation Yeast flocculation typically refers to the clumping together of brewing yeast once the sugar in a beer brew has been converted into alcohol. In the case of ale yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae the yeast floats to the top of an open tank, whereas with lager yeast Saccharomyces pastorianus ." A free pdf of the article can be accessed from http://www.asbcnet.org. Axcell is chief brewer for SABMiller, South Africa South Africa, Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (2005 est. pop. 44,344,000), 471,442 sq mi (1,221,037 sq km), S Africa. . He also holds the position of professor extraordinary in the Department of Microbiology at the University of Stellenbosch and is an honorary professor in the Department of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of Witwatersrand; Cameron-Clarke is a senior research scientist for SABMiller's Cereals Group and Van Nierop is a senior research scientist in Group Brewing Research at SABMiller. |
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