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Is it time to revisit the old brewery well?

By: Jim Allen

01/07/2007

Now is a good time to revisit the old brewery well as there may be significant financial gains to be made, together with environmental and marketing PR opportunities. Traditionally breweries were sited where the local water was suitable for brewing and they drew their supplies from their own sources.

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Drawing tubes of Bahrain, Uganda, and Thailand

By: Yuji Teramoto

01/07/2007

There are various ways to drink alcoholic beverages. We are familiar with drinking from a glass or even from the beer bottle but it was not always so. During my studies into indigenous beverages I have found unique characteristics of drawing tubes designed to hold back solids when drinkers consume direct from the fermenting vessel.

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Runcorn recollections … and the Guinness ships

By: Ian Gordon

01/07/2007

It was fascinating to read of the recent developments at Diageo at Runcorn (B&DI January 2007). I had the pleasure of playing a round of golf recently with John Bowman. He too was at Guinness, Runcorn in the 1970s and also remembers with pleasure crossing the Irish Sea on a Guinness ship.

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HACCP for cereals

By: Gary Stoddart

01/07/2007

Congratulations to Scottish Quality Farm Assured Cereals for sending us this extremely clear presentation of the salient features of its recently-launched risk assessment and HACCP system. Not dissimilar to the cereal part of Assured UK Malt but we thought readers, used to these systems in breweries and distilleries, might like to see what pressures the farm end of the supply chain is under these days.

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The Scotch Malt Whisky Society

By: Frank Robson

01/07/2007

How is this for a successful idea? Discover the pleasures of single cask malt whisky with a few friends then think this is so good more people should have the opportunity to enjoy it – and find thirty years later that your idea of enjoying single cask malt whisky has resulted in a society with 27,000 members worldwide, premises in Edinburgh and London and overseas organisations in USA, Japan, France, Switzerland and the Netherlands.

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Pretty Darned Xtraordinary

By: Roger Putman

01/07/2007

The steam usage figures speak for themselves; the last control brew used 7400kg and the most recent trial used only 3210kg. A handsome energy saving and after some 60 test brews, Coors in Burton on Trent is considering further full scale installations on one side of the Atlantic or the other. In the meantime Pursuit Processing Equipment which makes the PDX Wort Heater system has sold two units to Shepherd Neame at Faversham and have had numerous inquiries after a formal product launch at the EBC in Venice.

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Anaerobic treatment of spent grain leachate

By: Kanagasooriyam Kanagachandran, Ramesh Daryapurkar

01/07/2007

A pilot scale fixed film reactor packed with structured PVC media fill was operated for about 10 months to generate data which could be useful in designing a full scale anaerobic plant.

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Hops return to Suffolk

By: Ian Hornsey

01/07/2007

Like the cosmos, hopgrowing in Suffolk seems to have a natural tendency to go round in circles. After a lapse of around four centuries, commercial hop-growing has recently returned to an area in which hops were first recorded during the reign of Elizabeth I.

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What’s new in brewery hygiene?

By: Steve Griffin

01/07/2007

Our title comes from Cervantes’ Don Quixote and translates as ‘all will come out in the washing’. How true this is in a brewery! Time was when cleaning brewery plant involved a man in a vessel with a green pad who also took the mains down for a brush and a boil. The muck went down the drain and nobody worried provided the plant was clean and the beer sound. CIP has superseded manual cleaning – but the muck still goes down the drain.