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Seasonal ales made to take the chill off

Posted by admin | News | Posted on November 16th, 2007

The News Review:

- Seasonal ales made to take the chill off
- Beer clarification applications experience technology conversion
- A cocktail of rising costs and anaemic growth has brewers looking for…
- Celebrate the Holidays with the Flavors of Cherry Chocolate Beers…
- Could beer mixed with wine make you feel fine?

Seasonal ales made to take the chill off
Seattle Times – Nov 16, 2007
Here are last year’s favorites: 1. Pyramid Snow Cap* 2. New Belgium Fat Tire Amber Ale 4.

Beer clarification applications experience technology conversion
Creamer Media's Engineering News – Nov 16, 2007
?The introduction of cross-flow filtration is a technology conversion where a new higher performing technology is replacing the traditional? says Alfa Laval brewery application centre representative Eric Borremans who sees a clear trend in breweries moving towards this new technology. He adds that the majority of all breweries that invest in new beer filtration systems either because they need more capacity or just to replace old existing filtration systems opt for the cross-flow filtration technology. While cross-flow filtration has been around for many years it was only at the beginning of the twenty-first century that the first full-scale tests were done with the technology in beer clarification applications. ?The technology had previously been successfully used in many different applications; however it was a challenge to get it to work on beer as it contains many different substances that tended to clog the filters? says Borremans.

A cocktail of rising costs and anaemic growth has brewers looking for…
Independent – Nov 16, 2007
For the less sure of foot there are handrails to grab on to. All in all it’s an odd experience that can leave one bleary-eyed and thanks to the copious amounts of lager feeling a bit wobbly. It’s not unlike the situation brewing in the global beer industry. Just a few years removed from the last wave of mergers remade the industry a fresh fit of consolidation is under way. Yesterday Heineken and its bidding partner Carlsberg made a sweetened 750p-per-share £7. 3bn offer for Scottish & Newcastle but were swiftly and summarily rejected by the UK’s last big brewer. The producer of Newcastle Brown Ale and Kronenberg 1664 deemed the bid – £500m richer than the first £6… Graham Mackay the chief executive of SABMiller the world’s No 2 brewer after Belgium’s InBev has labelled Western Europe a "singularly unattractive" market. Costs meanwhile continue to rise. The price of malt the key ingredient for beer has doubled in recent months due to a disappointing growing season last year and farmers switching to other more expensive grains such as wheat. The price of aluminium has also sky-rocketed amid the global commodities boom. It’s that bitter cocktail of rising costs and anaemic growth that has the world’s beer behemoths looking abroad principally to emerging markets where populations are big but the taste for beer is still relatively new. Among these new markets Russia is king. The country already consumes nearly twice as much as the 60 million hectolitres glugged in the UK annually.

Celebrate the Holidays with the Flavors of Cherry Chocolate Beers…
BeerAdvocate.com – Nov 16, 2007
5 percent alcohol by volume (ABV). “Serve them at room temperature in crystal snifters to highlight each beer’s elegant color and aroma. “Available in limited-edition 24-ounce platinum bottles as well as a gift pack Michelob Celebrate Cherry and Chocolate make terrific gifts for adults. The gift pack contains one bottle of each flavor and two crystal snifters. “Serve these beers alongside a selection of desserts” Beck suggested… The company brews the world’s largest-selling beers Budweiser and Bud Light. Anheuser­Busch also owns a 50 percent share in Grupo Modelo Mexico’s leading brewer and a 27 percent share in China brewer Tsingtao whose namesake beer brand is the country’s best-selling premium beer. Anheuser-Busch ranked No. 1 among beverage companies in FRTUNE Magazine’s Most Admired U.

Could beer mixed with wine make you feel fine?
Lloyd's List – Nov 16, 2007
Well certainly our elders and betters meant “do not go pouring brandy on top of the eight pints you have just consumed” but the idea has come down to us in the form of an iron rule. Rules are made to be broken and in Australia winemakers like nothing better than a refreshing lager after a long day toiling with the tuns. But what about mixing the two during the brewing process?In countries other than perhaps Germany honey fruit herbs and spices often go in. But shiraz juice? That is a different matter — and due the intervention of a winemaker.