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Woes, wins and widgets - A look at brewery and distillery wastewater
By: Dave Thomas
01/08/2012
“It smelled like a bathroom sewer;” “It first smelled like dog pee, then it moved to skunk smell, then it was rotten eggs;” “Like Brussels sprouts and horse poop! It’s bad!” said several Fort Collins, Colorado neighbours downwind of the New Belgium Brewery in the fall last year.
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New craft brewery for Brains
By: Bill Dobson
01/08/2012
S.A. Brain in Cardiff has recently installed a 15brl plant at its brewery to enable the awardwinning Welsh brewer to produce a range of experimental new brews on a small scale. The main brewery has a brewlength of 150–250brls and therefore the ability to develop new beers at that scale has been limited to one or two seasonal brews per year.
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Underneath the Arches ... One of London’s newest breweries
By: Ian Hornsey
01/08/2012
As B&DI readers ‘of a certain age’ will recall, Bud Flanagan and Chesney Allen urged us to “dream our dreams away” when in such a location, but what is happening under the arches in Wilkin Street Mews, London NW5 at the moment, is certainly not for dreamers.
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A day trip to Montana … and a visit to Malteurop at Great Falls
By: Roger Putman
01/08/2012
“You’re going to Montana? It’s my favourite US State,” was the observation of a number of folk as I was planning this quick trip while over in the US for the MBAA last year. Even my accountant had spent her last holiday trekking across its fastnesses on a horse. I think the comments referred to the countryside further west in the foothills of the Rockies as waiting outside Great Falls International Airport, the landscape was pretty flat stretching miles and miles towards distant hills – this was of course barley country.
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Staying close to your roots ... and what to do with 2,000 tonnes of spuds
By: Roger Putman
01/08/2012
William Chase has a 600- acre farm in rural Herefordshire some seven miles northeast of the eponymous county town. There is a herd of 250 beef cattle, indoors during the winter while sheep, on an extended winter holiday, grazed their pastures. The herd demands wheat and barley for feed while cider apples go to Bulmers and hand picked culinary varieties go to make juice.
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Matilda Bay moves to Port Melbourne
By: Roger Putman
01/08/2012
Australia’s first craft brewery has moved to its fifth location since being set up in the newly named Sail and Anchor pub in Fremantle’s South Terrace back in 1984.
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Sharp’s gets UASB
01/08/2012
H2OK Water and Energy, using Nijhuis Water Technology from Holland has recently completed the construction and installation of an anaerobic digestion plant for the treatment of the liquid waste produced at Sharp’s, the award winning brewery in Cornwall.
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Health & Safety – best practice or simply compliance!
By: Eric Candy
01/08/2012
This was the topical subject for the Brewery Engineers Association Annual Technical Day at the National Brewery Centre, Burton on Trent. Below are appreciations of the papers presented.
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Effluent and waste water analysis
By: Jo Gawler
01/08/2012
Thermofisher Scientific has been supporting the water and waste water industry for over 20 years with the family of nutrient analysers. Its range of products: Konelab Aqua (300, 600), Aquakem(200, 250, 600), Gallery and Gallery Plus, all use the technique of discrete analysis using disposable, acrylic 12-cell cuvettes to performindividual tests.