Join New Belgium Brewing Company brewmaster, Peter Bouckaert for a Zymurgy Live webinar on the history of the usage of wood in beer. Peter will cover a variety of topics sampled from his recently released book, Wood & Beer: A Brewers Guide, which was co-authored with Dick Cantwell. Among other topics, Peter will discuss the history of the use of barrels in the United States, and of different types of cooperage in beer.
About Peter Bouckaert
Peter has been the brewmaster at New Belgium Brewing Company in Fort Collins, Colorado since 1996. He started to love beer while growing up in Belgium and continued his education while studying as a brewing engineer at the University of Ghent, Belgium. He first worked in the Zulte brewery, which belonged to the Kronenbourg group at that time. He later became the brewmaster for Rodenbach, where he brewed for almost 10 years. He also worked with Brewery De Gouden Boom and started his own brewpub, De Zwingel, in Harelbeke in 1994.
Peter is happily married to his wife, Frezi, and has two young boys, Wout and Jo Wolf.
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