The Institute of Brewing and Distilling (IBD) is an industry trade association for brewers and distillers, both in the

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and internationally. The IBD had its headquarters at Clarges Street in

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London until 2014 at which time the Institute moved to its current location in Curlew Street, south of the River Thames.

History

The institute can trace its roots back to 1886 when a group of ten scientists with interests in

malting Malting is the process of steeping, germinating and drying grain to convert it into malt. The malt is mainly used for brewing or whisky making, but can also be used to make malt vinegar or malt extract. Various grains are used for malting, most ...

and

brewing Brewing is the production of beer by steeping a starch source (commonly cereal grains, the most popular of which is barley) in water and #Fermenting, fermenting the resulting sweet liquid with Yeast#Beer, yeast. It may be done in a brewery ...

science formed The Laboratory Club, which later became the Institute of Brewing (IoB). In October 1906 a group of

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brewers established the Operative Brewers' Guild, which changed its name to the Brewers' Guild in 1929. The Guild and the Institute merged to form the Institute and Guild of Brewing (IGB) in 2001, which was later renamed as the Institute of Brewing and Distilling in 2005.

Publications of the IBD

The ''Brewer and Distiller International'' is a full colour monthly publication that is sent out to full IBD members. The ''Journal of the Institute of Brewing'' is a quarterly

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of peer-reviewed published research articles, with and indexed in

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Presidents

This list is incomplete:

Institute of Brewing

* 1904-05 Charles Hagart Babington * 1905-06 Sir William Waters Butler, 1st Baronet * 1906-07 Montagu Martin Weller Baird * 1907-08 Alfred Gordon Salamon, ARSM, FIC * 1908-09

James Grimble Groves James Grimble Groves (24 October 1854 – 23 June 1914) was a British brewer and Conservative politician. Life He was the son of William Peer Groves, of Springbank, Pendleton, near Salford and was educated privately and at Owen's College, Manch ...

, DL, JP * 1909-10 Edwyn Frederick Barclay * 1910-11 Henry Herbert Riley-Smith * 1911-13 Alfred Chaston Chapman, FRS, FIC * 1913-15 Francis Pelham Whitbread * 1915-17 Thomas Watson Lovibond, FIC * 1917-19

Adrian John Brown Adrian John Brown, FRS (27 April 1852 – 2 July 1919) was a British Professor of Malting and Brewing at the University of Birmingham and a pioneer in the study of enzyme kinetics. He was born at Burton-on-Trent, Staffordshire to Edwin Brown, ...

, MSc, FIC, FRS * 1919-21 Sydney Oswald Nevile * 1921-23 Henry Edmund Field * 1923-24 Edward Ralph Moritz, FIC * 1924-26 Robert Valentine Reid * 1926-28 Francis Pelham Whitbread * 1928-30 Robert John Baker Storey * 1930-32 Percy Gates * 1932-34 James Stonehouse, ACGI * 1934-36 Christopher George * 1936-37 Harold Wallis Harman * 1937-38 Cecil Ernest Wells Charrington, MC * 1938-39 Thomas Edward Grant * 1939-41 Lt-Col. James Herbert Porter, CBE, DSO * 1941-43 George Thomas Cook * 1943-44 Harold Wallis Harman * 1944-45 Cecil Ernest Wells Charrington, MC * 1945-47 Walter Scott, JP * 1947-52 Maurice Vandeleur Courage * 1952-54 John Morison Inches * 1954-56

John Edmund Martineau John Edmund Martineau (1904 – 3 June 1982) was an English brewer and brewing executive, who served as President of the Institute of Brewing. Life John Edmund Martineau was born in 1904, the eldest son of Maurice Martineau, of Walsham-le-Willow ...

, MA * 1956-58

George Mesnard Parsons George Mesnard Parsons (1890 – 26 February 1963) was an English brewer who served as President of the Institute of Brewing. Career Parsons was born in 1890. He entered the brewing industry as a pupil at the Swan Brewery in Fulham in 1910. He ...

* 1958-60 Maurice Arthur Pryor * 1960-62 John Gretton, 2nd Baron Gretton, OBE * 1962-64 Lt-Col. Francis Northey Richardson, TD, JP * 1964-66

Arthur Harold John Brook Arthur Harold John Brook (1907 – 20 January 1985) was an English brewer and brewing executive who served as President of the Institute of Brewing. Life Arthur Harold John Brook was born in Manchester in 1907, the son of Samuel Brook, a sugar m ...

* 1966-68

Norman Bryce Smiley Norman Bryce Smiley (30 March 1909 – 9 October 1968) was an English brewer and brewing executive who served as President of the Institute of Brewing. Life Norman Bryce Smiley was born on 30 March 1909, the son of Thomas Bryce Smiley and Edit ...

, MA * 1968-70 Clifford Furness Mackay * 1970-72 Prof. Anna Macgillivray MacLeod, DSc, PhD, FIBiol, FRSE * 1972-74

Ewart Agnew Boddington Ewart Agnew Boddington (7 April 1927 – 3 December 2015) was an English brewing executive, who served as chairman and President of Boddington's and President of the Institute of Brewing. Life Early life and family Ewart Agnew Boddington was ...

, MA, JP * 1974-76

Anthony John Richard Purssell Anthony John Richard Purssell (born 5 July 1926), known as Tony Purssell,

, MA * 1976-78

Charles Henderson Tidbury Sir Charles Henderson Tidbury, DL (26 January 1926 – 3 July 2003) was an English brewing executive, who was Chairman of Whitbread and President of the Institute of Brewing. Early life and military career Charles Henderson Tidbury was born i ...

* 1978-80

Peter Beal Hossell Peter may refer to: People * List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name * Peter (given name) ** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church * Peter (surname), a s ...

* 1980-82

Michael Henry van Gruisen Michael may refer to: People * Michael (given name), a given name * Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael Given name "Michael" * Michael (archangel), ''first'' of God's archangels in the Jewish, Christian an ...

, TD, MA * 1982-84

Michael Chalcraft Michael may refer to: People * Michael (given name), a given name * Michael (surname), including a list of people with the surname Michael Given name "Michael" * Michael (archangel), ''first'' of God's archangels in the Jewish, Christian an ...

* 1984-86

Norman Sydney Curtis Norman or Normans may refer to: Ethnic and cultural identity * The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 10th and 11th centuries ** People or things connected with the Norm ...

, BSc, CChem, FRSC * 1986-88 Peter Edward Ashworth, MA * 1988-90 R. W. Ricketts * ... * -1994 A. L. Whitear"The Council (as at 31st December 1994)". ''Journal of the Institute of Brewing''. 101 (1995). p. 234 * 1994-96 R. Summers, FIBrew * 1996-97 R. Summers, DUniv, FIBrew * 1997-98 P. A. Brookes, MA, PhD, FIBrew * 1998-99 * 1999-2000 Graham Stewart * 2000-01

Institute and Guild of Brewing

* 2001-02 Adrian Gardner * 2002-03 Dr J. Andrews * 2003-04 G. Den * 2004-05 W. J. Taylor

Institute of Brewing and Distilling

* 2005-07 Dr F. H. White * 2007-08 Dr D. S. Ryder * 2008-10 P. Ward * 2010-11 Alastair Kennedy"Minutes of the Seventh Annual General Meeting (Statutory) of the Institute of Brewing and Distilling"
Institute of Brewing and Distilling. 6 July 2011. Retrieved 28 April 2016. * 2011-12 Donald Nelson * 2012-14 Alan Barclay * 2014-16 Prof. Charles W. Bamforth"Minutes of the Eleventh Annual General Meeting (Statutory) of the Institute of Brewing and Distilling"
Institute of Brewing and Distilling. 24 June 2015. Retrieved 28 April 2016. Sources:
:Up to 1926-27: "Past Presidents". ''Journal of the Institute of Brewing''. 32:7 (December 1926). p. 6; :Up to 1984-85
''The Institute of Brewing''
(c. 1985). Institute of Brewing. p. 11

References

External links

Institute of Brewing and Distilling website
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