Somerville Brewing Company of Massachusetts is set to release its new Belgian-style ale featuring an unexpected ingredient: Cap’n Crunch Berries breakfast cereal.
The old adage that one person’s trash is another’s treasure is the foundation of San Francisco-based startup ReGrained, which makes snack bars from grains used to brew beer and eventually hopes to connect other manufacturers with a steady supply of the...
An ingredient manufacturer says that one of its functional
carbohydrate products can offer brewers improved texture and
stability retention in lower or no-alcohol beer, according to
independent testing.
The Novozymes group claims that their new enzyme can help brewers
increase capacity at little extra cost by offering longer and more
consistent filtration cycles.
ADM's purchase of French firm Lesaffre's 50 per cent interest in
International Malting Company (IMC) strengthens the ingredient
giant's position in the global malt business.
Dutch brewer Bavaria says its new malthouse in Holland can cut
water consumption by up to 30 per cent, highlighting the beer
industry's potential as a food industry leader in sustainable
production.
A new generation of hops for beer is being developed by researchers
in New Zealand, as the brewing industry looks to science to help it
catch up with changing consumer tastes.
Pursuit Dynamics, the UK-based creators of novel sonic wave food
and drink processing technology, will announce at its AGM today
plans to expand even faster this year after its breakthrough in
2005.
A new variety of winter malting barley could provide brewers with a
better quality and more stable barley supply, say scientists who
have been developing the variety for the past decade.
Food enzymes contribute a quarter of sales revenue to the overall
enzyme business in the first quarter, says Danish firm Novozymes,
marking a one per cent rise in contribution on the previous year,
writes Lindsey Partos.
The recent move to ban beer advertising in Russia is just one of a
number of challenges facing brewers there, but a recent survey of
the country's leading operators suggests that most of them are
relishing the challenges to come....
A number of major changes in production facilities across the
region sees Danone reversing its decision to close a biscuit
factory in Poland, the EBRD readying to invest in dried fruit
production in Uzbekistan and Minsk Beer poised...
Baltika,
Russia's leading beer brewery, has announced the start of
production at its newly constructed malt processing facility in
Tula, central European Russia. The project aims to up the company's
own supply of...
A major Chinese brewer is adopting hi-tech methods and promoting
the growth of new varieties of hops from the USA, UK and Germany to
boost brewing production. Domestic producers in China, which
recently became the world's biggest...
Leading Philippines food and beverage company San Miguel has
announced plans to open a soft drinks factory in the Shunde
district of Guandong Province, southern China.
Differing fortunes in the east and west: following disappointing
third quarter results, Carlsberg has rationalised its operations in
Sweden while at the same time increased its influence in the
Bulgarian brewing industry.
The Oxoid Awards for Beer Quality and Brewery Hygiene have
recognised a number of innovative moves in the field, with the
first prize given to a comprehensive training package to promote
hygiene.
SIG Simonazzi has won a major order from one of the
longest-standing Dutch breweries, Grolsch, to supply six bottling
lines for the brewer's new facility in Enschede.
UK company Oxoid, in conjunction with the UK Institute and Guild of
Brewing (IGB), has launched a new, international, brewing industry
award scheme for hygiene and quality standards.
Belgian speciality beer maker Duvel Moortgat shrugged off declining
volumes in France and the Netherlands to post a 9 per cent rise in
first half turnover, helped by strong performances in the UK and
US.
The German firm Steinecker, a subsidiary of Krones, has been
awarded two large-scale orders covering a total order value of €47
million. The Mexican brewing concern Cerveceria
Cuauhtemoc-Moctezuma placed an order with Steinecker that...
TrenStar has announced that it has concluded an agreement with
Scottish Courage Limited, part of Scottish & Newcastle plc and
one of the largest brewers in Europe, to acquire the beer keg fleet
of Scottish Courage (some 1.9 million...
