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Och! Campbeltown Loch ... Ah wish ye were whisky !

By: Billy Mitchell

01/05/2014

Kintyre is a peninsula in south-west of Scotland which stretches almost thirty miles from the Mull of Kintyre in the south to Tarbet in the north. It is long and narrow with Arran to the east and Islay beyond the Isle of Gigha to the west. Kintyre has long been a prized area for settlers including the early Scots who migrated from Ulster.

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A mile-high vibe - The Craft Brewers go to Denver

By: Roger Putman

01/05/2014

To finish this section about recent conferences, we go across to Denver, where the 13th step of the State Capitol building is exactly 5280ft above sea level, for the biggest of them all – the US Craft Brewers. If you use the optimistic conference counting method of the total of all those involved in any capacity at any time we get to some

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Behind the icy façade - Draught beer down-under

By: Brad Murray

01/05/2014

Icy-cold beer doesn’t always excite the brewer, but it has been the enduring characteristic of draught beer in Australia. Prior to glycol systems, most draught venues in Australia had ‘Temprites’. These instantaneous coolers are remembered fondly as the reliable, direct refrigerant, coolers that hissed away under the counter and helped quench the thirst of a growing nation for two generations.

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Recent advances in beer dispense technology

By: Colin McCrorie

01/05/2014

At last, as a triumphant coda, a paper on ‘beer dispense developments’ to mark the end of my first literary pilgrimage from grain to glass in eight articles. Given the popularity of this topic, which has been virtually ‘milked to dryness’ over the last decade or so by various authors, I have decided to major not just on a few technical innovations but those of a more philosophical nature.

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IBD Asia Pacific works hard and plays hard at Vietnam convention

By: Steve Curtis

01/05/2014

The convention’s main technical programme opened at 9am sharp with a welcome from Gary Bett, the Convention Organising Committee Chairman. The full auditorium then welcomed Professor Katherine Smart and Anton van Heerden of SABMiller for a keynote speech on the challenges and opportunities in Asia.

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Courting Mary Jane - What makes Ilkley Brewery tick?

By: Roger Putman

01/05/2014

Early in 2009, Ilkley Brewery produced nothing. By the end of last year, sales had reached 6500hL and its second brewery was bursting at the seams. Founder Chris Ives would say it is simply using the finest materials with a committed and imaginative band of brewers giving the customers what they want. All the other 139 little brewers in Yorkshire would say the same thing so I went along to see marketing guy Luke Raven to try and discover the Ilkley USP.

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New full-timeMSc fromNottingham

01/05/2014

The University of Nottingham is internationally recognised for its excellence in teaching in Brewing Science and will introduce a new full-time Masters course in Brewing, commencing September 2014.

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Rice spirit fromTaiwan

01/05/2014

Rice is a popular material in the wine-making industry, particularly in Asia. In Taiwan, rice is fermented and subsequently distilled to obtain a traditional Taiwanese rice-spirit.

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SIBA’s BeerX 2014

By: Steve Curtis

01/05/2014

March traditionally brings about the start of spring in the UK as well as the annual conference of the Society of Independent Brewers (SIBA). Following last year’s change of venue from Stratford to the much larger Pond’s Forge in Sheffield, 2014 brought yet another move, this time out of the city centre to the iceSheffield venue.

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PET and beer - The story so far...

By: Walter Heeb III

01/05/2014

Back in 2011, Walter Heeb produced a highscoring submission in the filtration and packaging module for his Heriot Watt MSc. He has updated it for the Brewer & Distiller and we asked Jan-Inge Vernersson at Petainer to supplement it with details of current manufacturing technology.

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Making the bottles ...

01/05/2014

PET is the short name of polyethylene terephthalate, which is a long-chain polyester polymer. PET is made using the two components terephthalic acid (PTA) and ethylene glycol (EG) both mostly made using oil feedstock.