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A growing craft brewery in Western Australia
By: Claire Parker
01/03/2014
Cowaramup Brewing Company is located in the southwest region of Western Australia some 250km south of Perth near the famous Margaret River wine area. The brewery began operations in December 2006 after five years of planning and numerous delays due to state and local government red tape.
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The new Elizabethans PART 2
By: Chris Holden, Stephen Oliver
01/03/2014
Bringing the story up to date ... In the October edition of B&DI we took a wideranging look at what has happened to the UK beer and alcohol industry over the sixty years since the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. We now bring the story up to date.
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Flow measurement ... a valuable tool for the brewing industry
By: Trevor Forster
01/03/2014
The recent discovery of the ornate tomb of Khonso Im-Heb, who was head of granaries and beer-brewing for the worship of the Egyptian mother goddess, Mut reminds us that brewing is an ancient art. Khonso poured hot water on to milled grains over 3300 years ago.
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Grappa from Italy
By: Carla da Porto, Michele Longo
01/03/2014
According to the EC regulations, grappa is the spirituous beverage produced in Italy exclusively from grape marc. A quantity of lees may be added to the grape marc that does not exceed 25kg of lees per 100kg of grape or contribute more than 35%of the total quantity of alcohol in the finished product. The distillation is carried out in the presence of the marc itself at less than 86%ABV and the minimum alcoholic strength in bottle is 37.5%.
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Little Creatures opens at Geelong
By: Warren Pawsey
01/03/2014
Like the rest of the world, Australia has seen huge growth in the craft beer sector over the past decade. Little Creatures Brewing, one of Australia’s leading craft brewers, opened a major new brewery and hospitality venue in Geelong last year.
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Craft brewing in New South Wales
By: Gary Blomeley
01/03/2014
This article focuses on the craft brewing industry in New South Wales and in particular some relatively newlyopened craft breweries which the IBD Asia Pacific Section Editor has recently visited.
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Pigging systems in the modern drinks industry
By: Colin Jeffrey
01/03/2014
Brewer & Distiller International • March 2014 • www.ibd.org.uk 61 Bass in Burton had a 70-brl sixinch pipeline snaking from the No.2 Brewery, now the site of Sainsbury’s supermarket, across Station Street to the Middle Brewery, out across Guild Street on another pipe-bridge ending up at the Cask Racking Room now somewhere between Aldi and Matalan.Even in the days of a generous 6%duty allowance to cover losses it was worth recovering the line residues...
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Brewing by the river ... The Sambrook’s story
By: Steve Curtis
01/03/2014
Our August issue last year told the story of the Porterhouse Brewing Company, which was recently set up in Dublin following a long period of consolidation of the Irish brewing industry. A similar story can be told of brewing in London, where the nineties and noughties brought consolidation and then closure of the big brewing sites. Back in summer 2006 there wasn’t much opportunity to sample a traditional London-brewed pint, outside of the obvious…
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Strengthening Speight’s
By: David Meads
01/03/2014
Brewing was one of the first enterprises to appear in the new colony of New Zealand in the mid to late 1800s. Messrs McKinnon and Wickins established Otago’s first brewery in 1856. With the discovery of gold in the 1860s, it wasn’t long before more breweries sprang up to service the thirsty miners. Other breweries included the Dunedin Brewery, Water of Leith Brewery, Red Lion Brewery, Strachan’s Victoria Brewery, J Speight & Co and the Well Park Brewery.
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A spell at the Sprig
By: Liam Brown
01/03/2014
It had been my goal to gain a placement in New Zealand ever since I began university. I had visited the country with my family eight years ago and I had the time of my life. The easy going nature of the locals mixed with some of the most breathtaking scenery on the planet made it a place I knew I wanted to return to as soon as I could.
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The Vietnam brewing industry since 2004
By: Gary Blomeley
01/03/2014
In 2004 the IBD Asia Pacific Section held a Convention in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam. Now ten years later we are returning to hold our 33rd Convention, this time in the vibrant southern city of Ho Chi Minh, previously Saigon.