In recent years, brewery technologists have devoted increasing attention to yeast. Formerly, wort composition was the main focus, when the objective was to assure the quality of the final beer product.One-tank yeast propagation, described on page 96, starting with 16 litres (Carlsberg flasks), yields 35 hectolitres of wort in ...71
It′s a symptom of a dire lack of business skills if a brewer′s only answer to falling beer consumption is laying people off and moving certain services to other - low-cost - countries. But that′s exactly what InBev is going to do. To make matters worse, InBev′s timing proved ill-chosen. Y ...74
Rumour has it that San Miguel only bought Tasmania′s brewer J Boag & Sons in 2000 because its executives wanted to attend the Melbourne horse races. That′s a good story even though there is more to it than meets the eye. San Miguel Corp., which also happens to be ...76
Fix it, sell it, or kill it. Is that all they teach them at business schools these days? Apparently, in their quest for ever higher margins, InBev′s powers-that-be know no other way out when dealing with a brewery that is not delivering "stellar performance". Now it′s "fix it or sell ...78