CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

EBC Symposium 2025
EBC Brewing Science Group 14th Technical Meeting,
18 – 20 May 2025, Budapest

Sustainable Packaging for Beer – Innovations in Keg & Tank-Beer Installations, Beer Dispense Technology & Quality

Making packaging move away from one-trip to multi-trip was just a first step. The goal nowadays is to make beverage packaging more sustainable to reduce the amount of returnables and the use of detergents, energy and the simultaneous reduction in emissions. The European Commission has reflected this approach in the PPWR – the Packaging and Packaging Waste Regulation – which came into force at the end of 2022 and whose provisions are binding for all 27 EU member states. This applies to both initial packaging providers and online retailers.

As brewers, we are convinced that the best form of any packaging has to be multi-trip, coupled with a much longer operational life than a bottle, or can, which has to be washed, or re-melted. The answer is a keg, or a beer tank, which offers good operational efficiencies coupled with a time-proven technology resulting in the serving of high-quality beers.

We invite brewing technologists, quality experts and packaging / dispense specialist in the employment of breweries, in allied industries and in research departments and universities, to submit an abstract on the topic. Abstracts should cover one or several of the following themes:

• Innovations in keg, keg components and materials
• Innovations in beer-tank systems, or other novel aspects of sustainable packaging
• Beer dispense systems, ease of operation, cleanability and consistency in quality
• Consumer acceptance of draught beer, both from the intrinsic (beer quality) as well as extrinsic point of view (marketing and PoS considerations)

The Call for Abstracts submission system will be online. Please click on the button below to draft your abstract or submit. If you have used the EBC Call for Abstracts system before, you may log on using your email address and password. The abstract length is limited to 1,200 characters (including spaces). Don’t forget to submit a mini-CV (also 1,200 characters), as well as photo of the main author / or the principal speaker. Abstracts submitted via email will not be considered.

All abstracts will be reviewed anonymously by the scientific selection committee of the EBC, headed by the chairman of the EBC Brewing Science Group, Dr. Gert De Rouck. The reviewing takes place after the call for abstracts has closed. Provisionally, a date of 3 February has been set for the closing of the call.