Harmonie Bettenhausen
Director of the Hartwick Center for Craft Food & Beverage
Dr. Harmonie Bettenhausen is the Director of the Hartwick College Center for Craft Food & Beverage (CCFB) where she is focused on collaborative research and extensive testing involving grains, malts, beer, and spirits. She completed both her M. Sc. and Ph.D. in the Heuberger Lab at Colorado State University (CSU) where she specialized in agricultural biochemistry, flavoromics, and investigation of cereal grains, malt, and beer. Her publications have covered not only these topics, but also areas as broad as peppers, wheat, and chocolate. Harmonie has been involved in the brewing industry since the early 2000s and is now extensively investigates the relationships of the grains, malt, beer, and spirits metabolome to genetic, sensory and quality factors. She is a member of many support organizations, including the National Barley Improvement Committee and several scientific support industry committees.