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Marrying heritage and modern production - A look at the Anheuser-Busch plant in St Louis
By: Roger Putman
01/06/2010
Ever since Bass’ Cape Hill Brewery in Birmingham and Carlsberg’s Copenhagen plant were shuttered, the ornate large brewhouses of a hundred years ago have been in danger of dying out. Lucky then that Anheuser-Busch InBev’s huge brewery in St Louis has been on the US National Historic Landmarks list since 1967.
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Return to Surfers Paradise
By: Roger Putman
01/06/2010
We return to the papers given at the recent Asia Pacific Convention on the Gold Coast where the weather is said to be ‘beautiful one day and perfect the next’ but not, of course, when you are in a darkened room listening to brewing lectures.
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Chicago entertains - 27th US Craft Brewers Conference and Brewexpo America
By: Roger Putman
01/06/2010
The latest US Craft Brewers convention in April was a sell out. Ticket applications were 40% up on the Boston conference just a year before and 3400 folk attended, a lot of them for the first time rubbing shoulders with the industry’s veterans some with well over a quarter of a century of experience under their belts. There were so many attendees that even though you knew certain people were there, you never saw them!
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Where tradition meets technology - Fertigation at Ellerslie
By: Philip Tudor
01/06/2010
Australian hop growing is not all about Tasmania; nestled amongst the valleys of North Eastern Victoria you will find a hop industry dating back to the 1890s. Ellerslie Hop Estate has been part of this industry since the 1930s and is now managed by the third generation of the Croke family.
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Modern brewhouse developments - A view from the bottom of the garden
By: Colin McCrorie
01/06/2010
Having hung up my brewer’s dipstick in July 2009, I have now the opportunity from a position of supine inertia to view our industry through the bottom of a beer glass. Accordingly ‘with some help from my friends’ I can offer some thoughts on how brewhouse technology has developed over the past few years.
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New Centre for Excellence at Muntons
By: Ian Hornsey
01/06/2010
Brewer & Distiller International • June 2010 • www.ibd.org.uk 31 Product development On 28th April,Muntons, Europe’s largestmanufacturer ofmalted ingredients, officially opened a new Centre for Excellence at its Stowmarket site. In line with the company’s policy of investing in the expansion of its manufacturing and product development facilities, the Centre is set to transformthe way thatMuntons are able to work with customers to develop new products.
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Amongst the fir trees - At the home of America’s biggest selling IPA
By: Roger Putman
01/01/2010
Seattle’s Redhook is one of America’s earliest craft brewers dating back to 1982. Its Longhammer IPA is the country’s biggest-selling IPA brand but you will not find Redhook in the Brewers Association stats for it was the first to go public back in 1995 – which allowed it to build two brand new breweries but then Anheuser Busch took equity in exchange for the use of its distribution system.
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360 Degrees - Thirty years on, a pioneer craft brewer comments
By: Will Kemper
01/06/2010
In the late 1970s I met with the Brewmaster of Rainier Brewing in Seattle. I had a degree in Chemical Engineering and had homebrewed on a rather sophisticated scale so I was hoping that he could assist me with finding employment in the brewing industry. He was a very congenial man who quite succinctly explained to me that you had to be ‘born’ into the industry in order to find such work.
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Crop reports from the South
01/06/2010
Correspondents from south of the Equator have kindly contributed summaries of malting barley and hop crops in South America, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand.