Beam 2026 Annual Conference

Poster Presentations A (Room Social Staircase Area, 2nd Floor)

Conference posters will be available from Monday starting at 12:00 PM until end-of-day on Tuesday. The following posters are featured in the session:

-Michael Crowder: Analyzing the distillates from a small commerical pot still

-Andrew Fratianni: Get Rid of Stickiness! Reducing Viscosity in a High Rye Mash Bill

-Joseph Stachnik, Jacob Morgan, Duncan Gregory, Katie Parish-Virtue, John Conner: Life Cycle Analysis of a Bourbon Cask 

-Curtis Payne PhD, Trevor Crowley PhD: Development of a Distillation-Free and Automated Titration Quantifying Glycosidic Nitriles in Malted Barley

-Ari Sussman, Dr. Nicole Shriner: Designing the Next Era in Whiskey's Flavor Spectrum: A Biotechnology Framework for Flavor-Targeted Grain Breeding in Distilled Spirits

-Raj Chaudhary, Muditha Dissanayaka, Tyler B. Mark, Yuqing Zheng, Grant Gardner: Reputation and Innovation in the U.S. Whiskey Industry

-Max Inniger: Benefits of Equalization in Distillery Wastewater Plants

-Stuart Williams: Inexpensive chill haze analysis: Nephelometric Evaluation at Arctic Temperatures (NEAT)

-Zach Traylor: A New Ethanol Extraction Method in Maize Using Lab-Scale, Dry-Grind Technology