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The new Bluetongue brewery in Australia

By: Gary Blomeley

01/11/2010

Bluetongue Brewery was founded in 2003 by four entrepreneurs who set out to create a premium Australian beer with a flavour of their local region. The idea was hatched at the Queen’s Wharf Brewery, which is a pub/restaurant on the harbour in Newcastle, New South Wales about two hours north of Sydney.

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Dundalk migrates to brewmaxx - ProLeiT technology modernises the Great Northern Brewery

By: D Wallerius

01/11/2010

Great Northern Brewery in the Irish town of Dundalk, is now operated by a brewmaxx process control system designed by ProLeiT after a two stage project. Diageo, the owner of the brewery clearly defined the goals, namely to ensure reliable, stable operation of the entire brewery from the brewhouse up to kegging whilst reducing production costs and increasing productivity.

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Bioethanol – a new outlet for wheat

By: Frank Robson

01/11/2010

By the end of 2013 the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation states that UK petrol should contain 5% of bioethanol and this level will no doubt rise in future years. The progress towards this goal has so far been achieved largely through imports. But now the Ensus plant at Wilton on Teesside is in operation making a massive 400 million litres of bioethanol per annum. When it came on line in 2010 it was the largest bioethanol plant in Europe and is an impressive example of chemical engineering.

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At the home of the Welsh dragon - A trip to see Felinfoel inWestWales

By: Roger Putman

01/11/2010

As a QA manager for Bass I used to enjoy my weekly trips down to South Wales chasing bubbles in Carling Lager in a succession of clubs often with no vowels and lots of ‘l’s in the names. The best time of the year was autumn with the turning leaves and the best bit of the journey was the Wye Valley from the end of the M50 down to the M4.

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By royal appointment - König Ludwig’s operation in Bavaria

By: Roger Putman

01/11/2010

Luitpold Prinz von Bayern lives with his wife and five children at Kaltenberg Castle which he shares with two restaurants, a ballroom, a 120,000hl brewery and the administration offices of some of his chain of König Ludwig companies. Over three weekends in July, he also shares it with 100,000 visitors who come to a purpose built 10,000 seater arena for the Ritterturnier, the world’s largest mediaeval jousting tournament.

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Wir bauen, sie brauen: We build, you brew says Nerb in Bavaria

By: Roger Putman

01/11/2010

The name of brewery fabricator Nerb has often cropped up on my brewery travels. Situated in the village of Attaching near Freising beside Munich’s airport I took advantage of a recent visit to Bavaria to call in.

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Monks brew in München - The story of Paulaner

By: Roger Putman

01/11/2010

Many readers will be familiar with Kolumbusplatz as a station on the U2 subway out of Munich on their journey to the Messe and drinktec. Just the other side of the River Isar from the city centre, they probably do not know that a short way up Falkenstrasse past some smart terrace apartments above equally smart bistros is one of the symbols of Munich’s beery greatness - the Paulaner brewery.

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If it ain’t broke … What is important in measuring CO2 content?

By: Johann Angres

01/11/2010

In virtually every field, the practical usefulness of a measurement is often more important than its absolute accuracy. End-users need to be quite realistic and selective about their equipment choices and aware that suppliers are often prone to present their measurements at irrelevant levels of accuracy.

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The Spirit of the Tyrol

By: Laura Rossetti, Anton Rossetti

01/11/2010

The Tyroleans are familiar with having a pleasant gathering of friends and nice people. They are also known for their Tyrolean Schnaps, which we describe as ‘good-tasting’ and as a ‘delicious drop’ – it is not solely about alcoholic content anymore, but intensive enjoyment with quality, taste and flavour to seduce all the senses.

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Petrópolis keeps on growing - Filling long necks at 78,000bpa in Brazil

By: Christoph Lanfer

01/11/2010

Of the 15 lines at the four facilities of the Brazilian Petrópolis Group, twelve are from Krones. Petrópolis keeps on growing, as indeed does the Brazilian beer market. The most recent installation was a nonreturnable glass line for long-neck bottles rated at 78,000 bottles per hour – featuring one of the world’s fastest and largest non-returnable glass fillers. It went into operation in April 2010 at the main plant in Boituva. Only last month, this was followed by a 120,000-cph canning line at the brewery in Rondonópolis. At the same time, a cross-facility manufacturing execution system (MES), the first of its kind in Brazil’s brewing industry, also went into operation.