To be the best, learn from the best: Internship at Boortmalt
Weronika Filipowska tells us about her experience in the European Joint Doctorate in Food Science and her activities during her professional internship at Boortmalt.
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Chasing Metal Ions: Reducing Iron Intake in Brewing for Higher Flavour Stability
Hi everyone, As promised, I will talk more about the research aspect of this project. From the very start of the European Joint Doctorate, each Early Stage Researcher (ESR) was given a specific task/topic. My goal was to come up with (working) strategies to reduce the iron intake during brewing. You see, iron—and other transition…
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A Busy Brewing Bee in Stockholm
Busy times passed and busy times are ahead of me in the project. After finishing my secondment at the University of Gent this spring, I returned to my home base in Krakow. With a lot of new knowledge and data, I was ready to start the last year of the European Joint Doctorate in Food…
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Sharpening Senses at FlavorActiV
Much more than just a set of skills, craftsmanship is technique and expertise gained through training and repetition. Like any other craft, brewing requires a specific set of skills that goes beyond the mere concoction of ingredients to achieve a particular taste. It involves everything from knowledge on chemistry, botanics, physics, nutrition, as well as…
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Finally in Ghent! Finally Analysing Lentil Beer!
I finally arrived! The wonderful city of Ghent welcomed me with beautiful weather and a sunny golden October. Since the moment I arrived on October 1st I was already able to meet my colleagues and friends from the project on a constant basis. Weronika and Maciej, who are based at KU Leuven on the other side…
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Mobile Magda: A Brewer’s Travel Chronicle
Hello again. Long time, no see! It is about time to catch up, right? Finally, the training sessions slowed down and I was able to seat down and update you. So, let’s go! You may be asking yourselves where have I been and what have I learnt during the long time I disappeared. Let me…
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Brewing Research: It’s All Beer Talk
Tuur Mertens, ESR of the EJD Food Science gives an account of his activities in 2018. Researching about brewing and malting is not only lab work, it also involves lots of talk. Beer talk, that is.
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Time Flies When Brewing with Lentil Malt
Time flies by and almost half-way through the programme I’m brewing full-scale batches of beer with lentil malt addition and getting ready for my next stop at the University of Gent.
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Welcome to Science: When Experiments Do Not Work
Hello! It’s crazy that it’s been almost a year since my last blog entry. It feels like I just wrote it yesterday! The first year of my PhD was mainly dedicated to research training at our partner universities: TU Berlin, University of Copenhagen, University of Krakow, University of Ghent, KU Leuven, as well as our…
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From a Sneaky Sip of Beer to a PhD in Brewing
First off, welcome to yet another blog about beer and thanks for stopping by. My name is Maciej, I am from Poland and with this first post I’d like to introduce myself a bit and explain how I actually ended up in EJDFoodSci – doing a PhD in brewing science. I cannot recall exactly my…
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City of Bikes & Hygge
My name is Marcus Pagenstecher and I am Early Stage Researcher #2 of this very exciting project called EJDFoodSci. My home university is the University of Copenhagen, but I am also enrolled at the University of Agriculture in Krakow. It’s been almost a year now since I packed my belongings into two suitcases and set…
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Happy Yeast for a Happy Life
I am Magda Costa, Early Stage Researcher #5, PhD student at Ghent University. My topic focuses on the fermentation stage in the brewing process. I’ve been researching the methods used in assessing wort composition, how it influences yeast performance, and how they can be manipulated to improve beer quality.
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How I became Beeronika
When I opened the big door, the hot and humid air instantly hit my face. The smell was sweet and grainy. Water was splashing everywhere and the big machines were fully running. I was in the brewery – in the heart of the Department. My name is Weronika and I’m the Early Stage Researchr #7. Check out my blog.
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Unity in Diversity: An International Passion for Beer
My name is Rosa (made in Italy) and I’m excited of being part of the coolest PhD programme ever. I am glad we’re such a varied group, a funny cocktail of international characters; I am sure we will benefit as much from our diversity as from our common passion for beer.
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Stories Shaped in a Glass
My name is Tuur Mertens from Belgium. I’m the Early Stage Researcher #6, working in Berlin. As simple a statement it seems, as crazy a journey it has been; it all started with an spontaneous application. Check out my blog and stay tuned for more beer stories shaped in a glass.
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Green Malt for a Green Future
Hello! My name is Celina Dugulin, I am the Early Stage Researcher #4 and I am currently doing my PhD at the beautiful University of Nottingham. What excites me the most about my project is, the aim of reducing the energy inputs required for malting.
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Kraków in a heartbeat
Welcome to my blog! My name is Jonas Trummer and I’m an Early Stage Researcher at the EJD Food Science. I’m currently based in Kraków where I am conducting research on the use of innovative raw materials in malting and brewing. Stay tuned!
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Welcome to EJDFoodSci
Here you will find updates on the academic endeavours, personal experiences and their life throughout the programme, of all the Early Stage Researchers of the EJD Food Science.
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