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Back to St Louis - We continue our look at A-B InBev’s plant in Missouri
By: Roger Putman
01/07/2010
The 1891 brick brewhouse was designed by Edmund Jungenfeld and is still the centrepiece of the whole site. Romanesque in design complete with ‘square crenelated towers and elaborate details’ and standing six storeys high with a clock tower extending another two. The architects certainly followed Adolphus Busch’s direction to “make this the finest brewhouse in the world.”
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The 14th Cellar to Seller Conference
By: Michael Parsons
01/07/2010
The presentations at the Birmingham conference were excellent and they deserve to reach a far wider audience. The following reviews can only give an insight into the high standard and readers are advised to visit the conference website.
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What motivates Generation Y?
By: Caroline Walker
01/07/2010
Humanity’s crowning achievement was most probably the Apollo 11 moon landing. The success of the mission required a tour de force of creativity, organisation and technological innovation – and the average age in Mission Control was only 26. Would we have got to the moon if NASA had not harnessed and trusted the skills of the next generation? Perhaps we should ask ourselves whether we could do better as an industry if we also harnessed some of the unique skills of ‘Gen Y’ – the under 30’s of today.
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Educating the Editor - A visit to Glengoyne Distillery
By: Roger Putman
01/07/2010
As I keep grumbling – we do not get very much feedback from our readers. Sitting in my garret in Burton on Trent, I take this as tacit approval that there is not too much wrong and that you would let me know if there was. I admit that we could do with more distilling content, so finding myself in snowy Glasgow earlier this year, I took advantage of the visitor-friendly facilities of the Glengoyne Distillery which is only a few miles north of the city.
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A look at instruments and modern control systems
By: Eric Candy
01/07/2010
Our jobs are centred around process control in our endeavours to produce the products that our customers wish to consume. Instrumentation and automatic control are not new topics to the brewing and distilling industries and as such it is easy to imagine that there can be limited change to discuss.
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Exciting times down under - Beer & Brewer Expo inMelbourne 20–22May
01/07/2010
The second annual Beer & Brewer Expo kicked off in May to coincide with the 2010 Australian International Beer Awards (AIBA) which is the second biggest beer competition in the world.
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How do you like thema pples? Real cider in NorthAmerica
By: Roger Putman
01/07/2010
When Vancouver Island’s Merridale cider orchards were laid out in the 1980s there was only a handful of them in the whole of North America. An early victim of prohibition, it was a crop with no other use...
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Why take the IBD Dipl. Pack.?
By: Bryan Egan
01/07/2010
This year should see the first candidates passing their final module of the Institute of Brewing and Distilling’s new Diploma in Beverage Packaging examination. Already some ten contenders have passed two modules and a further four have each gained one. Last year Bryan Egan from Molson Coors in Toronto got the Quinn Glass Award for the best performance in Paper 1 so we asked for his personal views. He writes from Toronto…