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Choosing the right instrument - A look at the Campden BRI website

By: Steve Whitcher, Gordon Jackson

01/04/2010

As a result of a request from clients, a new website has been constructed by Campden BRI at www.compareinstruments.com. The aim is to help staff in the brewing, cider, wine and food industries to obtain information on current and forthcoming instruments for laboratory or inline uses. The main benefit is a saving in time and effort since it will provide a one-stop shop.

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Dispense at the Honey Bee

By: Michael Parsons

01/04/2010

In June 2009 the Bucks Herald announced that Aylesbury Vale District Council had approved a planning application for a pub at Fairford Leys on the outskirts of Aylesbury, a residential estate laid out in an attractive ‘town style’ but for the last ten years with no pub.

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Is the climate right for a change?

By: Eric Candy

01/04/2010

Brewer & Distiller International • April 2010 • www.ibd.org.uk 47 For those of us living in the Northern Hemisphere who have been hampered by more snow and ice than usual, it is difficult to comprehend that we are living in the warmest winter on record! There are similar problems trying to reconcile our beliefs on global warming. Do we believe that the climate is changing and that this is being influenced by human behaviour?

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The Hangar 24 story in California

By: Doug Padilla

01/04/2010

Of all the inspirations for starting a craft brewery, piloting small planes wouldn‘t seem to be high on the list. Yet that is exactly what led Ben Cook to start the Hangar 24 Brewery in Redlands, some 65 miles east of Los Angeles.

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The Koval Craft Distillery in Chicago USA

By: Avignon Lev

01/04/2010

It is unusual to hear about people picking up and moving to another city without the security of a job awaiting them; particularly when it means leaving posts as a tenured professor and an Austrian Embassy deputy press secretary. Sonat and Robert Birnecker did just that about eighteen months ago, when they left Washington, D.C. to found Koval, Chicago’s first artisan distillery.

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The truth about oxygen testing

By: Graham Meller

01/04/2010

Oxygen measurement technology has advanced considerably in recent years as most manufacturers launch new optical sensors. As a result, a bewildering array is now available, so this article will seek to review the advantages and drawbacks of the most common oxygen sensors from a brewer’s perspective.

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Coastal brewing in Washington State

By: Roger Putman

01/04/2010

Port Townsend is a picturesque place with loads of old Victorian buildings and is the tourist gateway to Washington’s lonely Olympic peninsula. It sits at the sea end of the Puget Sound about forty miles from Seattle on the other side. The view across the islands in the bay on a quiet Sunday evening in late September is quite stunning. Looking east you can see Mount Baker, an ice-clad volcano over 10,000 feet high and over 100km away.

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Assuring brand integrity - Counterfeiting issues in the spirits industry

By: Ross Aylott

01/04/2010

Brand ownership contributes significantly to the value of many modern businesses, particularly in the beverage sector. A brand’s value is based upon many factors that include its reputation with consumers and its ability to generate repeat sales. While brand owners and manufacturers go to great lengths to ensure the quality and consistency of their products, counterfeiters often take illegal advantage.

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All systems go at Loanhead - A look at Edinburgh’s Stewart Brewing

By: Brian Eaton

01/04/2010

Stewart Brewing’s mission statement: ‘To brew great quality beer and deliver excellent service – and have fun in the process! When I visited Steve Stewart at his Edinburgh Brewery there was a good six inches of fresh snow on the ground and Steve was busy digging it away from the brewery entrance so that goods could be brought in and out – such fun!

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All cask Theakston’s returns home,

By: Roger Putman

01/04/2010

I have always had a sneaking regard for Theakston’s Old Peculier, one of those archetypical great beers of England. Full bodied, dark. malty, plenty of power at 5.6%ABV and balanced with just the right amount of bitterness (29BU) from Challenger, Fuggles and Target. It just seems to slip down defying its gravity and tempting you into immoderation. When I heard that all of Theakston’s cask beers had recently returned to their home at Masham in North Yorkshire I just had to pay a visit.

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Brewing on a big island - A tour around Victoria, BC

By: Roger Putman

01/04/2010

Many are surprised that Vancouver is not the capital of British Columbia and that it is not situated on Vancouver Island. If you do not count Montreal, the island is Canada’s most populous and it stretches for almost 300 miles to the north and west of Vancouver just off the coast. Despite some of it being south of the 49th parallel it is all Canadian territory and its largest town Victoria is the capital of the whole province as it was the first to be settled in the early 1840s.