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Whisky flights: Hi-tech drones highlight energy wastage

By: Ken Brooksbank

01/02/2018

ThermoDrone, a start-up surveying company which utilises drone-technology, has won work with one of Scotland’s biggest whisky distillers, William Grant & Sons, in Girvan, Scotland.

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Measure for measure - Streamlining enzyme analysis for the brewing industry

01/02/2018

For a science that spans millennia, brewing remains a vibrant, consistently evolving industry. Currently, beermaking is witnessing a full-scale revolution thanks to the worldwide explosion of the craft beer phenomenon – and the introduction of a variety of beer types and flavours aiming to satisfy all palates.

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Milling and mashing Part 3: The mash filter to Nessie

By: Roger Putman

01/02/2018

Often perceived as ‘new’ technology, mash fi lters have in fact been available since the nineteenth century, indeed Meura was selling them back in 1890.

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Rye-volution - The whiskey business gets spicy in New York State

By: Rob Evans

01/02/2018

Say the words ‘American Whiskey’, and the first association made by most will be with the corn-based whiskies of Kentucky and Tennessee. These two neighbouring states, blessed with a combination of rich farmlands, plentiful space and the oak-filled Appalachian Mountains, have long held the undisputed crown of producing ‘America’s Spirit.’