{"id":378,"date":"2017-10-21T12:25:25","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T12:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bbbrewoff.com\/bluebonnetbrewoff\/?page_id=378"},"modified":"2019-10-21T14:08:08","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T20:08:08","slug":"keynote-speaker","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/bbbrewoff.com\/bluebonnetbrewoff\/conference-info\/2019-2\/keynote-speaker\/","title":{"rendered":"2019 Keynote Speaker"},"content":{"rendered":"

Updated for 2019<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Peter Bouckaert<\/h1>\n

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This year\u2019s guest speaker will be Peter Bouckaert<\/strong> from Purpose Brewing and Cellers. Peter, co-author of Wood & Beer<\/em> (Brewers Publications, 2016) relocated to the U.S. in 1996 to become New Belgium Brewing Company\u2019s brewmaster in Ft. Collins, Colo. Bouckaert had previously brewed for a decade at Brewery Rodenbach. When Peter joined New Belgium, the company\u2019s portfolio included five Belgian-inspired beers.<\/p>\n

He was an early advocate of brewing hoppier beers outside the Belgian tradition, exploring IPAs, Czech-style lagers, fruits, spices, wood-aging and fermentation, and experimenting with yeast and microbe strains from around the world.<\/p>\n

Peter earned the equivalent of a Master\u2019s degree in brewing and fermentation technology from the University of Ghent, Belgium, as well as a Quality Engineer degree from CKZ Kortrijk. He was honored to be awarded the 2013 Russell Schehrer Award for Innovation in Brewing by the Brewers Association.<\/p>\n

In the summer 2017, Peter began a transition to open Purpose Brewing and Cellars in Fort Collins, a small batch craft brewery that focuses on hand-crafted beers.  We are thrilled and honored to have Peter as our guest speaker in 2019.<\/p>\n

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Updated for 2019 Peter Bouckaert This year\u2019s guest speaker will be Peter Bouckaert from Purpose Brewing and Cellers. Peter, co-author of Wood & Beer (Brewers Publications, 2016) relocated to the U.S. in 1996 to become New Belgium Brewing Company\u2019s brewmaster in Ft. Collins, Colo. Bouckaert had previously brewed for a decade at Brewery Rodenbach. When Peter… Read More »2019 Keynote Speaker<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":24,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-378","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbbrewoff.com\/bluebonnetbrewoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbbrewoff.com\/bluebonnetbrewoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbbrewoff.com\/bluebonnetbrewoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbbrewoff.com\/bluebonnetbrewoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbbrewoff.com\/bluebonnetbrewoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=378"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bbbrewoff.com\/bluebonnetbrewoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3042,"href":"https:\/\/bbbrewoff.com\/bluebonnetbrewoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/378\/revisions\/3042"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbbrewoff.com\/bluebonnetbrewoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbbrewoff.com\/bluebonnetbrewoff\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}