Author Guidelines

Instructions to BrewingScience Authors     (NEW: September 2025)
Fachverlag Hans Carl, publisher of BrewingScience, welcomes papers dealing with all aspects of brewing, malting and raw materials, fermentation, filtration, filling and packaging, inclusively new methods, processes and so on.

BrewingScience is read by scientists and technicians from the brewing and malting industry and suppliers with an interest in background scientific knowledge. The scientific journal serves to transfer knowledge from out of the colleges, universities and other areas of research, and into the industry, to the commercial examination and control institutes, and to official areas such as supervisory departments.

1. GENERAL NOTES

Articles about any piece of research should be an original study, in which the authors and co-authors were all involved and contributed to the results of the investigation. 
Papers will be peer reviewed by at least two (to four) anonymous members of our  reviewer panel .

The article will be published online in open access. Every two months there will be an update, upon all of our registered users were informed by an e-mail newsletter. In addition a printed BrewingScience Yearbook containing all papers published in one year is available on demand.

Copyright, open access and APC
Any manuscripts will be published open access. Publications are published under a Creative Commons (CC-BY) license (for more information: https://brewingscience.de/index.php/brewingscience/About).

As of 1 August 2025, submissions will be subject to an article processing charge (APC). The fees for BrewingScience publications are 1000 EUR per paper. BUT: We attach great importance to the fact that eligibility for publication in BrewingScience is measured by the quality of the scientific work and not by financial hurdles. We have therefore introduced generous waivers and alternative funding options, e.g. institutions that generally support BrewingScience in the form of an annual sponsorship are excluded from the APC. To request an exemption from the publication fees, please contact:  junkersfeld@hanscarl.com

Plagiarism
The publisher reserves the right to check manuscripts for plagiarism using iThenticate Crossref Similarity Check.

2. SUBMITTING MANUSCRIPTS

The papers must be submitted via link. Deadlines and publishing dates are:

3. DETAILS OF PRESENTATION / STRUCTURE

Text, tables and figures
The text has to be written in English and has to have line numbering. Responsibility for correct spelling is with the author. Texts need to be sent as Word documents (e.g. - no pdfs), figures as eps-, tif- or jpg-file. Tables can be sent as Word or Excel documents. Files up to 40 MB can be uploaded.

Title
The title should be succinct and bear relevance to the study’s objectives. We use sentence case throughout our publications.

Authors
Authors have to be specified by “surname, first name” (initial for middle names), please separate several author names by semicolon.

Abstract and keywords
The abstract should contain important results which are significant to the objectives of the work reported on. A list of no more than six key words should indicate the areas covered by the paper.

Structure of the paper

1 Introduction
The introduction should explain the purpose and the scope of investigation, giving reference to the most important studies carried out on the subject. An account of the current questions surrounding the topic and why this theme was developed should be included.
2 Materials and methods
A short and concise description of the techniques and processes applied in the investigation should be given. Recognised methods of analysis and other publications can also be referred to here.
3 Results
Only the results of the underlying work, which are presented in the text, tables or figures, should be presented here. Introducing the results, visual material (such as pictures, figures, tables, and other graphics) should be presented in a distinct manner to show the findings. The figures must be clearly relevant to the text. Please refrain from using both tables and figures based on the same data.
4 Discussion
In the discussion, the results of the investigation should be considered in a critical way and also regard the findings of others.
5 Conclusion/Summary
A summary of the most important results of the study should follow at the end, together with how they bear in relation to the aims of the investigation. New and additional elements are out of place here.

Acknowledgements
All sources of funding should be reported here, for example ‘this work was supported by the [Funding Agency] under Grant [1234/19]’. Any individuals who helped in any way with the work presented here have to be acknowledged.

Conflict of interest
Any conflict of interest (financial, personal etc) should be declared. Even if there are no conflicts of interest, a declaration should be added, e.g.: “the author(s) declare there are no conflicts of interest”. Or “The authors report no conflict of interest. The authors alone are responsible for the content and writing of the paper.”

Supplementary information
Authors can add important information that is not presented in the manuscript as supplementary information. All additional information should be compiled in one document and cited in the manuscript as follows: (Fig. S1, Table S2).

References
Software tools: Output style templates are available for some reference management programmes, e.g. Citavi, Zotero, Endnote, which can be provided on request.

References to figures and tables within the text must be written in lower case; references to figures in brackets are to be abbreviated (e. g. (fig. x, table x, eq. x)) In the main text these references have to be written in full, e. g. figure x, table x, equation x.

Literature references: Author names have to be in italics on their first appearance in the text. References cited in the text should be indicated by serial numbers in brackets (e. g. [12] or [12, 13]). A list of the corresponding literature will appear at the end of the article. See the examples below for how to reference articles in journals, books etc.:

1.    Biendl, M.; Engelhard, B.; Forster, A.; Gahr, A.; Lutz A.; Mitter, W.; Schmidt, R. and Schönberger, C.: Hops – Their Cultivation, Composition and Usage, Fachverlag Hans Carl, 2014.
2.    Oladokun, O. James, S., Cowley, T., Smart, K., Hort, J. and Cook, D.: Dry-hopping: The Effects of Temperature and Hop Variety on the Bittering Profiles and Properties of Resultant Beers, BrewingScience, 70 (2017), no. 11/12, pp. 187-196.
3.    Wolfe, P. H.: A study of factors affecting the extraction of flavor when dry hopping beer, Food Science and Technology, Oregon State University, Masters Thesis, 2012.
4.    Krottenthaler, M.; Hanke, S.; Kappler, S. and Becker, T.: Influences to the transfer rate of hop aroma compounds during dry-hopping of lager beers, Proceedings of the 33rd European Brewing Congress, 2011.

Footer
For the footer, please additionally specify the authors‘ names and addresses using the following scheme:
Author(s): Christian name, surname, institute/company, address, e-mail, ORCID

4. ORGANISATIONAL DETAILS

For announcement in BRAUWELT / BRAUWELT International / Social media
Please submit a 2–3 sentence summary in generally understandable English. This is used as an announcement in our other magazines and on social media.