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Beer innovation in Africa - Introducing Impala...
By: Paul King
01/03/2013
At SABMiller, an important focus for us in Africa is to create locally relevant, high quality beer brands that are affordable to people who would otherwise drink illicit or informal alcohol.
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Sustainability, a new driver for effective CIP
By: John Cornford
01/03/2013
Principles and practices for effective CIP in brewing plant have long been established and are somewhat taken for granted today. Typically there are relatively small incremental advances in CIP system design and CIP chemistry, but none of the radical advances of the 70s and 80s, such as acidic CIP of fermenters and BBTs. Efficient CIP however presents different challenges.
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New canning line at EABL
By: Joseph Ouma
01/03/2013
Africa has become the global hotspot for beer growth and the market for canned beverages has been rising. EABL has provided canned product through contract production from Tanzania, Mauritius and Ireland.
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Computational modelling – trouble brewing?
By: Bob Stafford
01/03/2013
Mention computational modelling to most brewers and the odds are that their minds start to fill with blackboards full of equations resplendent with squiggles, rooms full of supercomputers which would put HAL from Kubrick’s 2001 to shame, or those colourful climate models which seem to form such a central part of televised weather forecasting.
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Using process simulation modelling ... in capacity planning to minimise capital investment
By: Debbie Briody
01/03/2013
William Grant & Sons (WGS) produces a wide range of premium spirits globally, including the Glenfiddich, Grants and Balvenie whisky ranges. The majority of the global volume is bottled through the bottling plant at Bellshill, North Lanarkshire which is some eight miles east of Glasgow.
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Building Ndola - A new brewery in Zambia
By: Brian Hirst
01/03/2013
The town of Ndola situated in the Zambian Copperbelt has seen many transitions over the last 63 years. The town always claimed to be the capital of the Copperbelt, which irked those who live in and regard Kitwe of having that claim to fame. Previously Northern Rhodesia – now the independent Zambia – the country has experienced fluctuating copper prices, population movements and lately the transition from instability to stability as the area is in growth again.
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Continuous improvements, renovation and radical innovation with enzymes
By: Jens Eiken
01/03/2013
Of all the traditional biotechnology industries, the brewing industry is probably the one that uses enzymes in the most sophisticated ways. The processes involved in brewing beer make exemplary use of the enzymes in cereals and yeast and were largely developed before anyone knew anything about the biochemistry and function of enzymes.
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South Africa’s craft beer revolution
By: Garth Theunissen
01/03/2013
“Dude, I don’t drink home-made beer.” That was how Kevin Wood, the owner of Darling Brew, answered the first person who offered him a craft beer.
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St Patrick’s Day celebrations - some reflections by the Guinness Master Brewer
By: Fergal Murray
01/03/2013
As everyone knows, St Patrick’s Day is truly synonymous with Guinness and as a truly Irish brand it plays a role in the celebrations for many. I have been the Guinness Master Brewer for the past 12 years and each one has been extraordinary.
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Rock and Rolling Stone
By: Roger Putman
01/03/2013
Stone Brewing is a relative newcomer to the Californian brewing scene – dating from just 1996. Yet it is up there in the iconic stakes alongside Anchor Steam and Sierra Nevada both of which have been in the business for a lot longer. Today Stone is the 11th largest US craft brewer by volume producing 148,000bbl in 2011 and 180,000 in 2012. This 22% hike in just twelve months has forced the installation of second 120bbl Rolec brew stream.