In this issue...

Choices, choices page 10
Regular contributor Paul Buttrick explores beer processing from the end of fermentation to the bright beer tank and discovers that there are many decisions to be taken along the way.

Innovation, passion and knowledge in page 18
Derbyshire Roger Putman was in hop heaven at Thornbridge in Derbyshire. With a brand new Velo brewery to play with, brewer Stefano Cossi is getting the best out of his materials.

Tiny in Southsea page 25
We met Mike Charlton at the Midland Section's Big Cask Day last year. A long time home brewer, he set up commercial operations in his garage and then won the best beer in Hampshire award.

Nanotechnology - what's all the fuss page 27
Campden BRI's Denise Baxter explains some of the basics of this exciting new technology but cautions that to the public it seems to have an equally bad press asgenetic modification.

After the clapping dies away... page 28
Tiny Rudgate Brewery near York won the 2009 Supreme Champion prize at the GBBF. The Editor visited just after the announcement to see how the kudos and extra demand would affect owner Craig Lee.

A walk on the North Norfolk coast page 31
Editor Emeritus Michael Parsons writes about Alan Ruddock who used to maintain Boby malt mills and now makes his own.

How to maintain your most important asset page 34
Ian Jones from South Africa points out the ten biggest blunders in the world of people development and charts a procedure to do it properly.

The tide turns at Scapa page 37
Our whisky sleuth Frank Robson visits the windswept islands of Orkney where he charts the fascinating history of Scapa Flow and the Chivas Bros distillery which overlooks it.

Beyond Copenhagen page 42
Eric Candy continues the build up to UN World Environmental Day with a look at websites which help us calculate our own carbon footprints.

REGULARS
World news page 2
Spot the brewery page 9
IBD news page 44
Marketplace page 45
Business Listings page 46
Recruitment Inside back cover