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Small Pack – expanding the world class envelope

By: Eric Candy

01/09/2006

11 The BREWER & DISTILLER • Volume 2 • Issue 9 • September 2006 • www.ibd.org.uk This article will take an overview of small pack and discuss current developments along with thoughts on how to expand the world class performance envelope. Freud said “The less a man knows of the past and the present the more unreliable must his judgement of the future prove”. This is important to bear this in mind when trying to understand the small pack market.

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The Butcombe Five brew up in Somerset

By: Roger Putman

01/09/2006

Guy Newell has just purchased his ninth pub, after he and long time business partner Paul Horsley bought one of Britain’s oldest established microbreweries back in 2003. They have developed its portfolio, its estate and finally commissioned what must be the biggest brand new brewery built in the country for at least two decades. Somerset’s Butcombe Brewery is now a truly regional brewer.

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Developing and maintaining high performance

By: Eric Candy

01/09/2006

The Brewery Engineers Association (BEA) held its annual technical day last March at the Bretby Conference Centre near Burton on Trent. A series of excellent presentations were made on the subject of developing and maintaining high performance, a key area of interest for successful companies.

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Finding the fragments

By: Stephen Hollis

01/09/2006

Eliminating glass-in-bottle consumer complaints is an area of ongoing focus for all brewers. Systems to detect a bottle exploding in the filler and reject subsequent bottles at risk are usually one of the critical control points in any brewer’s food safety plan. As a result, exploded bottle detection systems (EBD) are routinely challenged to ensure that they are operating correctly and therefore providing the appropriate level of protection, but are they?

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The Glycaemic Index of beer

By: Caroline Walker

01/09/2006

According to Sir John Krebs, Chairman of the UK Food Standards Authority, ‘If nothing is done to stop the trend (in obesity), for the first time in 100 years life expectancy will actually go down’. Alarmist as this statement sounds, Sir John has not lost his sense of proportion. Indeed governments have now recognised obesity as a major epidemic.

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Making a mark on beer packaging

By: Nadine Hansen

01/09/2006

For beer brands, the main coding equipment decision will be between ink jet and laser. Ink jet technology is the process whereby very fine droplets of ink are propelled from a print head through air onto a substrate, to form a printed image. CO2 lasers produce a permanent code on the substrate through coating removal, etching or thermochemical action.