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Duty Bound
01/01/2018
While different types of label adhesive may appear to do the same job, maintaining maximum productivity and minimum label spoiling means understanding the properties of different types of glue.
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Small but perfectly formed ... A peep at the Cayman Islands Brewery
By: John Round
01/01/2008
A recent holiday to Grand Cayman – the largest of the three Cayman Islands in the Caribbean– presented an opportunity to visit the brand new Caybrew brewery located just a few miles outside the capital, Georgetown – and to meet the General Manager, Mr Allen Chu Fook and Technical Manager, Oliver Wesseloh.
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Cutting fuel costs - Increasing distribution profitability by intelligent fuel usage.
By: Roger Denniss
01/01/2008
Today, vehicle condition and drivers` hours in the old Europe are rigidly regulated and policed so there is little or no opportunity for a cowboy operator to make a quick buck. Road transport is nevertheless a very competitive business with the motoring press claiming that hauliers are doing well if they manage to achieve a 2.5% to 3.5% return on their capital investment.
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IBD Examinations - A guide to success
By: David G Taylor
01/01/2008
I intend to present some thoughts to help candidates attain IBD qualifications and to provide pointers on how to approach the examinations. I apologise in advance to those who might find this information to be rather basic, but the intention is to help anyone approaching our exams for the first time or candidates who find themselves involved in the examination process again, after a gap of several years, and are slightly ‘ring-rusty’.
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Dining with Innis and Gunn
By: Frank Robson
01/01/2008
As the movement to match drinks with food gathers pace the unique range of beers produced by Innis and Gunn in Scotland is making its presence felt. A dinner held at Malmaison in Edinburgh in November paired the culinary skills of chef Matt Powell with the brewing expertise of Dougal Sharp, the young enthusiastic Managing Director of Innis and Gunn, to great effect.
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Hops, hops, hops and more hops - A look at Oakham Ales in Peterborough
By: Roger Putman
01/01/2008
These days many UK brewers use hops imaginatively. The names of Roger Ryman at St Austell, Mike Powell Evans at Adnams, Sean Franklin at Roosters and Graham Trott at Triple fff immediately spring to mind but I do not think anyone uses quite so many of them as John Bryan at Oakham Ales. There are copper hops, late hops, very late hops, hop back hops, a hop tea and even pillow cases full of them stuffed into a hop torpedo in the maturation tanks. Hop rates up to 2kg per barrel, mainly on the aroma side, are not unknown and all his beers have a pleasant bitter twang as well.
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Plastic innovations in European small pack
01/01/2008
Plastic containers and closures have taken on an important role as packaging materials for the brewing industry. The first German brewers who worked with PET bottles were famous brand owners like Bitburger Brauerei which introduced the big neck bottle and in Berlin, Berliner Pilsener brought out a PET bottle as an event package for a big music festival that attracts yearly more than one million people each year. One of the early reasons for this was the safety issue of missiles being thrown around by ebullient party goers.
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Innovation is about survival - The challenges of a modern small pack line
By: Jeremy Browne
01/01/2008
In Western Europe the beer market is becoming increasingly competitive. It is now evermore important to have an appealing product on the shelf to ensure that it will be the consumer’s first choice. Once purchased, the product must be right and be of consistent quality to capture brand loyalty.
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The Berkeley and Salzburg connection - Brewing an archetypal Austrian Pilsner in California
By: Roger Putman
01/01/2008
The Trumer Brauerei is located in the university city of Berkeley just over the Bay Bridge from San Francisco. You can see the ivory towers of California’s oldest university (1866) from the roof of the brewery and despite being off Camellia Street its surroundings are mainly industrial.