Beam 2026 Annual Conference

Maturation 2 (Room Worsham Cinema)

This session will cover the following talks:

-Karthikeya Rajkumar, Vivek Mangal: Leak Detection Strategies for Maturation Warehouses: A Comparative Study

-Priya More, Vivek Mangal: Optimizing Airflow in Bourbon Warehouses Using Environmental Sensor Data

-Christopher Depcik: Quantitative Analysis of Climate and Rickhouse Microclimate Effects on Whiskey Maturation

-Jordan Spitzer, Edgar Lee,m James Lew, Martin Janousek, Griffin Shively, Diana Alvarado, Clark Smith: Studying the Impacts of Microwave-Toasted Wood in Spirit Maturation at Elevated Temperature

- Andrew Wiehebrink: From Flame to Infrared: Chemical Impoacts of Modern Barrel Toasting Technologies