Time to ditch that fragile hydrometer?
By: JimOldfield
September 2nd, 2012
Bellingham & Stanley has launched a new range of OPTi digital hand held refractometers, designed to replace that costly and slippery glass hydrometer when measuring the specific gravity and ABV of a brew. With temperate-compensated digital readouts, the company says its new digital is quicker, easier – and uses only a fraction of the beer… Read the full post…
Instant help with brew taints and off-flavours
By: JimOldfield
August 21st, 2012
Campden BRI is offering a Rapid Response Taint Troubleshooting service to brewers. A team is on hand to instantly respond to brewers who are suddenly presented with a problem. Campden’s expert panel of tasters can provide help to identify taints – together with advice on the potential source of the problem and recommend analysis such Read the full post…
BrewDog opts for German efficiency at its new brewery
By: JimOldfield
July 17th, 2012
BrewDog has chosen German specialists Esau & Hueber to design and install the cold process area of its new brewery, currently being built near Ellon in Aberdeenshire. BrewDog brewing director Martin Dickie said: We chose Esau & Hueber as the supplier of the new cold process area package, as they fully understood our requirements and Read the full post…
Wye Valley opts for Yorkshire ‘value-for-money’
By: JimOldfield
June 17th, 2012
Yorkshire brewing experts Microdat and Watergate Construction have joined forces once again – to secure a “Yorkshire value-for-money” contract to build a huge new brewery in Herefordshire. The team behind the £4.2m Moorhouse’s brewery upgrade in Lancashire will now build a new fermenting room extension followed by the new 80 BBL brewhouse at the Wye Read the full post…
New refractometer to get to the bottom of your ABV
By: JimOldfield
June 5th, 2012
Sick of dropping those slippery, wet, £100 hydrometers when you’re trying to get to the bottom of your latest brew’s ABV? UK company Bellingham + Stanley has just released its new range of OPTi digital hand-held refractometers, which it says are simpler, safer and – thanks to the temperature-compensated digital readout – give more reliable Read the full post…
New ‘smell and flavour police’ will put brewers’ ales to the taste!
By: JimOldfield
June 5th, 2012
Tasting notes guesswork could soon be gone, as an expert tasting company tells brewers PRECISELY what their beers taste and smell of! Global taste management specialist, FlavorActiV, has launched a new expert panel tasting service specifically for brewers comprising 18 independent fully-qualified tasters who have been trained to recognise and scale over 40 different flavours Read the full post…
New moby-sized CO2 alarm launched
By: JimOldfield
May 13th, 2012
Analox Sensor Technology has launched its most affordable personal CO2 alarm to date – making it easier for employers to ensure that their staff are protected from the deadly gas. The new QPD CO2 is smaller and lighter than the average mobile phone, yet it continuously checks carbon dioxide levels and issues audio-visual warnings in Read the full post…
Commercial ‘home-brewing’… via remote control computer system!
By: JimOldfield
April 9th, 2012
A sophisticated computer system – which lets brewers check their beers from home, and even sends them a text if anything goes wrong! – is winning admirers across the UK’s beer industry. Yorkshire specialists Cimlogic devised the system for the purpose-built Windsor & Eton Brewery when it was established in 2010, to become the first Read the full post…
