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The Copper House Distillery - Britain’s first brewer to start distilling

By: Ian Hornsey

01/05/2012

Adnams has long been renowned for its excellent ales and the quality of wines that the company supplies, but the completion of the total renewal of the Sole Bay Brewery in 2008 and the burgeoning ‘micro-distilling’ scene in the US, prompted Chairman Jonathan Adnams to consider fulfilling his long-held dream of adding high quality, artisanally-produced, distilled beverages to the company’s portfolio.

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Fuel Alcohol - Ethanol production fromstarch (an update)

By: Mike Ingledew

01/05/2012

In the mid 1980s a resurgence of bioethanol production occurred using production technology successfully employed for centuries for beverages and in the 20th century for fuel. However, economics of ethanol biofuel have been improved by significant technological improvements.

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Lancer cools at Snowbird - Glycol chiller plate systems now pouring in the US

By: Bill Cadd

01/05/2012

Australian and New Zealand beer consumers and draught beer venue operators have been enjoying quality draught beer for the last 30 years thanks to the technical innovation that Hoshizaki Lancer have developed for chilling and dispensing quality draught beer.

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Melbourne in March - The 32ndAsia Pacific section convention

By: Roger Putman

01/05/2012

The 32nd Asia Pacific section convention was held in Melbourne at the end of March. This time the organisers did not have to resort to including the suppliers in with the delegates to boost apparent numbers and a total of 470 people set off for an evening of organised mayhem called a pub crawl!

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Microbiological methods … and the challenge of the modern brewing process

By: Chris Boulton

01/05/2012

Louis Pasteur in his seminal Études sur la bière, first made available to English speakers in 1879, pointed out that whilst in wine making spontaneous fermentation produced a satisfactory outcome this was not so in the case of the conversion of wort into beer. He concluded that failure to pitch wort with a healthy dose of a culture of a suitable yeast would inevitably lead to the formation of “an acid or putrid liquid resulting from the production and multiplication of alien ferments”.

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Collecting your own CO2 - Pentair Haffmans and Molson Coors build UK’s most modern recovery plant

By: Ernst Aalbers, Richard Smethurst

01/05/2012

Burton on Trent remains at the heart of British brewing tradition. Once famed for its pale ales, Britain’s biggest brewery, the 8mhl Molson Coors plant in the town produces much more bottom-fermented lager than top-fermented ale these days. With an allchilled and filtered output, it uses a lot of process gas and one of the UK’s largest and most modern carbon dioxide recovery plants was installed by Pentair in 2010 with a 24/7 capacity of 2,000 kg/h CO2.

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The right steriliser can make a difference

By: Lee Oakley

01/05/2012

Installed and working correctly within a microbiology laboratory, steam sterilisers perform a vital role in protecting against in-lab cross-contamination as well as ensuring all externally discarded material is free from microorganism infection. Choosing the right autoclave at the outset is essential and can easily impact on the viable performance of laboratories.

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The heart of Chivas Regal - Strathisla Distillery

By: Frank Robson

01/05/2012

The company of Chivas Brothers emerged from an Aberdeen grocery business founded in 1801. Blending of whiskies began there fifty years later and records of the blends have established a long and strong link with Milton Distillery in Keith.