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Generation C · Institutions

The institutions that research, teach, regulate, organize, and preserve beer.

Associations, research laboratories, foundations, training institutions, professional bodies, and regulators are kept distinct from commercial brewery and brand identities.

  • 10 institutions
  • current + historical
  • succession preserved

association

American Homebrewers Association

U.S. homebrewing organization founded in 1978; treated here as a historical institution, not as an authority for all beer history.

founded 1978 · active

association

Association of Brewers

Historical U.S. brewing association identified by the Brewers Association as one of the organizations merged into the current Brewers Association in 2005.

founded 1978 · merged

association

Brewers Association

U.S. not-for-profit brewing trade association established in 2005 by merger of two predecessor organizations.

founded 2005 · active

association

Brewers Association of America

Historical U.S. brewing association identified as a predecessor merged into the current Brewers Association in 2005.

founded 1942 · merged

foundation

Carlsberg Foundation

Enterprise foundation established by J.C. Jacobsen in 1876 and represented as a distinct governance/philanthropic institution.

founded 1876 · active

research institute

Carlsberg Research Laboratory

Brewing and scientific research institution founded by J.C. Jacobsen in 1875.

founded 1875 · active

educational

Siebel Institute of Technology

Brewing-science educational institution whose history traces to John Ewald Siebel’s Chicago laboratory and zymotechnic institute in 1868.

founded 1868 · active

research institute

VLB Berlin

Research and teaching institute for brewing in Berlin, founded in 1883 by the brewing and malting industry.

founded 1883 · active