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Craft Brewers Conference and BrewExpo 2018 - Record attendance at US’s largest craft-brewing industry gathering
By: Dan Griffiths
01/06/2018
Music City knows a thing or two about putting on a show but they hadn’t seen one like this before. While there may not have been quite so many rhinestones on display as at the Grand Ole Opry, there was plenty of shiny stainless steel to tempt the attendees as the 35th Craft Brewers Conference came to Nashville, Tennessee for the first time in May of this year.
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Gassing up - Looking closer at CO2 recovery at your brewery
By: Bryan Monich
01/06/2018
For small breweries, purchasing liquid CO2 can be a simple and effective method of operation. However, as production volumes and the resulting CO2 usage volumes increase, the cost savings potential of installing CO2 recovery equipment becomes increasingly attractive.
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Kanpai! Modern London sake brewing using traditional Japanese techniques
By: Ian Hornsey
01/06/2018
"It is the man who drinks the fi rst bottle of sake, then the second bottle drinks the fi rst, and fi nally it is the sake that drinks the man …" Old Japanese proverb. The news that the first sake brewery in the UK had started production took me to Peckham, London in April this year to meet Tom Wilson who with his wife Lucy runs the Kanpai sake brewery.
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Spirit of the west country: A visit to the Somerset Cider Brandy Company
By: Rob Evans
01/06/2018
Julian Temperley, founder of the Somerset Cider Brandy Company, is quick to correct any suggestion that he was the first to distill UK-grown cider in recent history. “My mentor and cider brandy’s ‘John the Baptist’ was Bertram Bulmer”, he says, before reflecting: “on second thoughts, that makes it sound like I think I’m Jesus. You’d better not write that!”
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The Macallan Part 1: The distillery
By: Billy Mitchell
01/06/2018
My last journey into the wonderful world of whisky took me to the north shore of the Dornoch Firth to Glenmorangie. I am now treading the familiar route up the ever-changing A9 from my base just outside Alloa taking a route north-east at Aviemore on the A95 running alongside the Speyside Way to my destination at Easter Elchies, the home of the world famous Macallan single malt whisky, the jewel in the crown of Edrington.