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That was the Brau that was ... Nürnberg November 2008
By: Roger Putman
01/12/2008
This year there was no snow and no rail strikes but I guess the fog caused many travel disruptions for people wending their way home after yet another (the 48th) successful show at Nürnberg.
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Keeping it clean - Balancing cost and best practice in brewery operations
By: Paul Buttrick
01/12/2008
It is a long time since I carried out an audit at Whitbread’s Cheltenham Brewery – to be told by a foreman that he comes in every Saturday morning in his own time, strips down the mains and gives them ‘a good scrubbing with a stiff brush’. Since those days, much has changed – both in the market place and brewing companies’ approach to beer quality and hygiene.
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Northern Hemispher - Crop Reports 2008
01/12/2008
Hop and Barley crop reports from the Northern Hemisphere
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It’s not easy being green - The EBC Environmental Sustainability Symposium
By: Roger Putman
01/12/2008
You may not worry about the world which your grandchildren will inherit, indeed you may not be planning to have any. But there is increasing pressure on resources – land, energy and water. Wasteful usage does cost money whether in higher utility and material bills or landfill charges to get rid of residues. These charges cascade straight to the bottom line. Consumers increasingly expect companies to be responsible citizens; if they are not, brand allegiance moves to a producer which is and that probably has an even greater bottom line effect. A sustainable company looks like being a more profitable one.
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Who was Mr Clarges? Historical notes on our Clarges Street HQ
By: Mike Butterworth
01/12/2008
During its long history the IBD has had three main London homes. For over forty years it was based in the historic Brewers Hall in Addle Street, until incendiary bombs destroyed the premises during the Second World War blitz on December 29th 1940. The Secretary Mr W.H.Bird managed to salvage most of the minute books and membership details but everything else was lost.
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Brewing on the Jurassic Coast
By: Roger Putman
01/12/2008
The Jurassic coast in the south of England, with its towering cliffs, some with precarious overhangs, runs alphabetically from Devon to Dorset. This is Britain’s first natural World Heritage site and its 95 miles encompass the fossil record of over 180 million years of Earth history. The ancient town of Bridport (one of Alfred the Great’s fortified burhs) lies slightly inland with its old route to the sea at West Bay well silted up but it is still home to Britain’s rope and net makers. Once the supplier to Nelson’s navy and His Majesty’s prisons where the noose was sometimes known as the ‘Bridport Dagger’, the modern industry is perhaps more famous for supplying football goal netting and the tennis nets used at Wimbledon.
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Shaken and stirred - Steinecker’s Shakesbeer in practice
By: Christian Dahncke, Ralph Schneid, Frank-Jürgen Methner
01/12/2008
The fundamental requirements when it comes to the quality and efficacy of the brewing process include both taste stability and good filterability. The effects of passing low-frequency vibrations ranging between 100 and 200Hz through the Shakesbeer mashing system were published last year. Encouraged by these results, the Paulaner Brewery has installed one of these Shakesbeer systems.