Who am I?
I, Sandra Ganzenmüller, have studied nutrition science at the technical university of Munich in Freising-Weihenstephan, and during the study I get in contact to a lot of brew masters. They introduced me to the fantastic and exiting world of beer. From that time on my passion for beer (production, tasting and gathering special beers) grow continuously and finally I attend the Doemens course to become a “Biersommelier” in April 2008 with success.

What else?
In my daily job I work as PR-professional and am owner of a PR-agency specialised on food, beverages and lifestyle with seven employees on staff. Among our clients you will find a lot of breweries as well as three associations from the brewing branch. One of them is the association called Die Freien Brauer - independent family owned breweries, the Deutsche Brauer-Bund as well as the Private Brauereien Bayern. We have also supported the Doemens academy in PR during the four sommelier’s world championship in beer skills. Beside that, I am instructor at the Doemens Academy and teach the young and upcoming brewers in PR.

I also consider it to be important to build up a strong association of beer sommeliers and therefore I am part of the presidium as communication manager of the beer sommelier association.

My experience in beer tasting
-    Permanent judge at the European Beer Star, Germany, since 2009. 2011 and 2016 as co-table-captain
-    Judge at the World Beer Cup 2012 in San Diego, CA, 2014 in Denver, CO, and 2016 in Philadelphia, PY, USA, there as table-captain
-    Judge at the International Meininger Award, Germany, 2015, 2016 and nominated for 2017
-    Judge at and German ambassador for the Brussels Challenge in 2013, 2014, 2015 and nominated for 2016
-    Judge at the Nordic Beer Challenge in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2016
-    beerbook writer
-    editor-in-chief for a beer magazine called bier.pur Germany

Personal facts & figures
I am 46 years old and live in Freising nearby Munich within the famous hop region “Hallertau”.

Anton Vasilyev

Chief technologist, the brewery Rewort

Education:
In 2012 graduated from Moscow State Food University, the faculty of “Technologies of production management”, in specialty “Technical engineer of fermentation production and winemaking”

Work experience:
From 2011 worked in the Moscow brewing company as a Production operator;
In 2013 – Stamm Beer as a Chief technologist;
In 2016 – brewery Rewort.

Olga Gamidova

Date of birth- May 9, 1972

Managing Director of LLC “Ipatovsky brewing plant”

Education:

1987-1991 – Food Technical School (Novocherkassk)
1991-1996 – Voronezh Technological Academy (fermentation technologies)
1999-2000 – Scandinavian brewing school (Denmark)
2011- Lean Academy (Denmark)
2019г – Training courses in Franchiser’s school

Additional education:

Business-training activity:
“Practical motivation”, “Effective management skills”, “Ways of staff development”, “Effective management communication” “Motivating leadership” , “Guiding and coaching”, “Management of changes”,  “Situational leadership”, “Training for trainers”.

Lean: Russian Lean school – “Lean production. Leadership. Creation of effective Lean-crews”, “RIE. Theory and practice”, “Instruments for problem solution: top class”.

Lean JIPM (Japan)-basic courses ТРМ

English advanced training courses

ROIC

Awards:

In 2004 awarded a medal “The best brewing specialist”  
In 2013 made the top 100 best Russian managers.
In 2014 awarded an Order of Merit in the brewing industry.

Articles: “Thrift to the last drop… of beer”. The Magazine “Standards and quality”, 2011.
Speaker of 2 conferences devoted to lean production – Moscow and Samara.

Jan M van Bragt

The Netherlands

Along with his career as a French teacher, Jan M van Bragt, is a teacher in Beer (StiBON NL, Tatteljee B) and a true connoisseur of beer for 30 years.

He is a former editor-in-chief of the Dutch beer magazine PINT and co-writer of several beer books, such as: Dutch Beer Book, Benelux Beer Book, Beer Tasting Guide, Beer Style guide, Belgium by Beer.

He has worked for some Dutch and Belgian breweries and was enthroned as honorary knight of the Brewers Mash Staff in Brussels. He is co-founder and organizer of the Kerstbierfestival in Essen, Belgium.

Jan has national judging experience at Dutch and Belgian homebrew competitions (BKG, Brand Brewery, Bierfestival Groningen,To Beer or not to Beer, Leuven Innovation Festival), PINT Bock Beer Competition (Netherlands), Kuyt Beer Competition (Netherlands), Dutch Beer Challenge (Netherlands), and has participated as a judge in the international beercompetitions like Brussels Beer Challenge (Belgium), Poznanskie Targi Piwne (Poland), Birra dell Anno (Italy), International Beer Competition (Japan), Barcelona Beer Challenge (Spain) , Ibeerian Awards Aveiro (Portugal) ,World Beer Awards (England) and World Beer Idols Prague (Czechia)

His long experience in the beer sector also includes a participation in 1988, as a beer taster, in the TV program “The Beer Hunter” Our daily Beer , with Michael Jackson. In 2017 his book about the Beer Icons of the Low Countries will be released.