There is a growing awareness among the investment community of the relevance of water footprint as an indicator of corporate risk. During 2008 Citi, JPMorgan, Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley all issued water-focused research reports. The Ceres/Pacific Institute report (February 2009) took the discussion a step further with guidelines on sector-specific risks from water scarcity and the impacts of climate change.

For many years, systems for the production of biogas from waste water have been in operation in German breweries. A working group from within the German Brewers Federation wanted to facilitate the information exchange among their members at breweries practicing waste water treatment. Now the current manual is available.

The following article deals with fundamentals of planning breweries and mineral water operations. In the first part “From site to master plan”, details are provided about what specifications a factory site has to fulfil, how the special requirements of the sector can be reflected in basic layouts for functional configurations and what other criteria have to be taken into account at an early stage of planning (infrastructure provisions, routing configurations, integration into infrastructure, extendibility etc.). In the second part, special features associated with planning are examined, taking account of the statutory framework, hygiene requirements, equipment and other aspects specific to the sector.

drink technology+PET India 07, held in the Grand Hyatt, Mumbai, on November 29th and 30th, 2007, was organised by drinktec, PETplanet and VDMA, the German Association of Equipment Manufacturers. 41 well-known companies from 11 countries exhibited at the fair. In addition, a comprehensive lecture program was offered, divided into a symposium with emphasis on market-specific topics and a workshop with presentations from the areas of equipment and technology of beverage production and filling.

The relevance of brewing liquor for beer quality is often underestimated and its quality is often disregarded or ignored, even though the finished product beer consists of 90 - 92 percent water.

In Mid-october, 8 speakers from the department of research for engineering sciences for food products and biogenetic raw materials and the research center for brewing- and food quality, Weihenstephan organized a seminar for 80 participants at El Salvador featuring the latest results of research at Weihenstephan.

According to the Drinking Water Ordinance “water for human consumption” is understood as “drinking water” and as “water for the food industry”. To simplify matters this paper uses the term “drinking water”. It was realised early that the supply of the public with clean drinking water is extremely important. Hereby, the microbiological property plays an essential role.

For more than 30 years the Institute Romeis Bad Kissingen, Oberthulba, Germany, has been successfully active in the field of up-to-date production technologies, product quality and product safety for predominantly small beverage producing companies. With the change of name from Laboratory Romeis to Institute Romeis, Peter Romeis, managing partner, and Ingrid Schmittnägel, managing director, wanted to allow for the expanded business activities with analysis, consulting, service and pilot brewery. One more reason for Brauwelt to talk to both about the general direction of the institute and about its business activities.

The use of vacuum pumps in the brewing industry for bottling beer is daily practice. Up to now, the standard has been the classic water ring pump. With the Eco vacuum pump, KHS is launching a new generation of pumps that offers considerable advantages. The decisive point is that this new pump concept reduces water consumption considerably thereby cutting operation cost noticeably.

Since half a year the Brasseries Kronenbourg in Obernai in the vicinity of Strasbourg runs one of the biggest reverse osmosis facilities for brewing liquor treatment in Europe. In close cooperation with the technical planning staff of Kronenbourg and the engineering consultants of Cical the Grünbeck Wasseraufbereitung GmbH in Höchstädt/Danube, Germany, planned, built and installed the new central water treatment facility with a permeate rate of 380 m3/h.

After successfully optimizing the lautering and boiling process with Pegasus, Merlin and Stromboli, the last major technological challenge in the brewhouse has been solved. By the Steinecker ShakesBeer Krones offers a completely new mashing technique which increases the quality of the mash, lowers the energy consumption and reduces the mashing time to under two hours. This makes 12 brews a day a reality in every brewhouse

Already 90 million closures have been decontaminated in a leading Swiss mineral water plant via dry process. The succeeding article compares the benefits of dry decontamination with other germ removing procedures on the basis of practical experience values.

According to information from the German Association of Natural Mineral Water Springs (Verband Deutscher Mineralbrunnen) the per capita consumption of mineral and spa water reached 113.7 l in Germany in the year 2002. The trend to mineral water without CO2 continued (+78.4 %). The all-time summer of 2003 yielded in more growth in which the market share of spa water again showed an increase above average. The method was filed for patent ...

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