What is actually the point of pushing margins ever higher? Because others are doing it too? That’s not good enough. The real answer is a tautology. At InBev they do it because they can do it.

Scottish & Newcastle figures itself to be another “Braveheart” as it turns down Heineken’s and Carlsberg’s raised offer of 750 pence per share. Who’s playing to the gallery?

For SABMiller it must have been a stroke of luck. Having lost the Amstel contract in South Africa, the brewer was keen to find another Germanic sounding brand with a super-premium potential to satisfy consumer demand.

The European Brewery Convention announces the appointment of John M. BRAUER (BSc. (Hons), MSc., Dipl. Brew.) as successor to Marjolein van Wijngaarden, who will be retiring as Secretary General of EBC by the end of 2007. John will officially take over from Marjolein on 1 January 2008, and his position will become that of ‘EBC Executive Officer’.

2007 crop yields much worse than originally expected. /Poor alpha values in the main

In his annual statement retiring MAGB (Maltsters Association of Great Britain) Chairman David Wilkes has called on farmers, merchants, maltsters, brewers and distillers to work in a more collaborative and constructive way, in order to ensure security of malt supply and encourage re-investment by UK malting companies. Reviewing the significant changes that have taken place in the industry during the past twelve months, he concludes that buyers of malt have to play a much more active role in the total supply chain.

This new development from REMBE^® - the Q^®-Atomizer- is a self-triggering suppression system which protects against the effects of dust explosions in elevators, bucket lifts, transport shafts and pipelines. Due to the fact that the Q-Atomizer^® requires no extra power supplies or complicated mechanisms, it is very economical and very easy to maintain. The system uses the generated energy from the explosion to activate itself.

Handling bags filled with kieselguhr is a constant daily challenge for breweries. Manually opening bags, emptying them and feeding kieselguhr into the dissolving tanks is very time-consuming, and generates considerable dust and product wastage.

It’s a very special record: the largest KHS candle filter in the world, the Innopro GETRA ECO, is now in operation at the Obolon Brewery – Ukraine’s biggest brewery.

The madness of it all. Just because Diageo decided to sell its mini Baileys in an imperial measure bottle in Germany, it was taken to court by German distillers. Fortunately, the judges had some sense and awarded the world’s biggest spirits group the right to sell miniature bottles of Baileys across the European Union.