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Building an empire ... BrewDog’s new brewstream
By: Simon Jackson
01/07/2015
Set above the small town of Ellon, 20 miles north of Aberdeen, the BrewDog Brewery stands on the horizon for all to see. It’s all about visibility and the high-rise geographical position of the brewery mirrors the highprofile communication approach employed by the BrewDog team. We visited on the same day that ‘Fat Cats’ were being parachuted across the City of London – another piece of theatre from the company as it celebrated the huge success of its most recent Equity for Punks fundraising scheme. A cool five million pounds raised in three weeks.
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Chicha charisma...
By: Ian Hornsey
01/07/2015
“They make chicha from a lot of things....with every nation accommodating to those seeds and fruits that their land produces in abundance....But the best chicha of all, the one that is most generally drunk in this land, and the one that, like a precious wine, takes first place above all the other Indian drinks, is made from maize.” - Bernabé Cobo, Historia de Nuevo Mundo,
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Starting up whisky and gin making in the Cotswolds
By: Roger Putman
01/07/2015
Daniel Szor admits that he knew nothing at all about distilling or even the drinks industry when he decided to chuck in a 30 year career manipulating other folks’ money and do something associated with a long time love of whisky and the Cotswold countryside.
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Parisian Musings - FrogPubs and FrogBeer
By: Shane McNamara
01/07/2015
Starting a trend is often hard work – and pioneering does not appeal to everybody – but for those who dare enter the fray, reward and respect is often the result. Brewer and Distiller International’s Shane McNamara and the team at FrogBeer report on the FrogPubs story.
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The science of beer shelf life and free radicals
01/07/2015
Beer staling and oxidation is caused by free radicals. During storage, even trace amounts of transition metals such as iron or copper catalyse the conversion of molecular oxygen to “reactive oxygen species” (ROS).