Beverages

Appletiser Processing Plant Upgrade,
Appletiser slim taper bottle which is filled at the plant.	New experimental variety of apple (Virginia Red) being experimented with as containing more juice than Granny Smiths and Golden Delicious.	Appletiser can, which is produced at the plant.
Virginia Red on the tree.	The InSQL server receives data from across the plant.	Monitoring production at Appletiser using the Wonderware suite.

Blackwood Malt Whisky Distillery,
Evantually a gin still at the distillery will make Blackwood dry gin.	Jago vodka cream liqueur is a popular product currently produced by Blackwood.	This malt whisky distillery is also used as a base for growing the botanicals used in the company's white spirits such as Blackwood Nordic vodka.
Whisky barrels storing the malt during maturation.	World Spirit award 2004 for Nordic vodka.

Brakspear
Fermenting room floor.	Artist's impression of the new brew house showing copper kettle, mash tun and square fermenters.	New mash tun being placed in the brew house.
Square fermenter being placed in the fermenting room.	Brakspear copper kettle after refurbishment.	Dropping vessels being placed as part of the double drop process.
Brakspear double dropped bitter has a characteristic flavour.	The company now brews strong cider in conjunction with Thatchers.	Hobgoblin is one of the fastest growing premium ales in the UK.
Brakspear is one of the UK's largest organic beer producers.	Wychcraft is one of the Brakspear brewery's lighter beers.

Coca Cola Bottling Plant,
The Wakefield plant was built in 1989 as a manufacturing and distribution centre for CCE (Coca Cola Enterprises) in the North of England.	CCE Wakefield boasts the fastest 2l bottle production line in the world.	The plant is capable of producing up to 4,000 330ml cans a minute and 3,280 bottles – ranging from 500ml to 3l – of soft drinks a minute across nine lines (two canning and seven PET).

Diageo Malt Whisky Distillery, Roseisle, Speyside, Scotland
A rendering of the new Diageo distillery showing the main building.	A rendering showing the storage vessels and processing area for spirits.	The rear elevation of the new distillery building.
One of Diageo's best selling malt brands, Cardhu.	One of Diageo's best selling blended whisky brands, Johnnie Walker Red Label.

Distillery 209
Distillery 209 is the first gin distillery to be set up in the US in 100 years.	The distillery is based around a copper swan's neck pot still designed and constructed by the Forsyth Group in Scotland.	The premium 209 gin is distilled five times for extra purity and all ingredients are used once.
The head distiller is in charge of testing the 209 gin and ensuring its high quality.	The still was hand built from hand-hammered copper and is nearly 25ft high, making the large size of the facility essential to the gin-making process.

French and Jupps Brewery, Stanstead Abbots, Ware, Hertfordshire
Inside of the French and Jupps kiln.	The malting control room.	The malted grain.
The roaster for colouring the malt to requirements.	Stout which requires a dark malt.

Fuller, Smith and Turner Keg Racking Line, London
Fuller, Smith and Turner has upgraded production facilities at its Chiswick brewery in west London.	Two dual-lane versions of the Innokeg Transomat Duo 3/1, operating in a parallel fashion, are able to handle the task of washing and racking the kegs.	Plan view of the Transomat 3/1 Duo.
The filler valves on the equipment (part of the DFC technology).	The intelligent robot-controlled palletiser on the production line stacks the kegs ready for shipment.	The robot arm on the Fuller's kegging line is a labour-saving device that ensures flexible and variable handling of different pallets.
Fuller's has approximately 360 pubs in London and the South East.	Fuller's uses Strategix supply chain management to offer an integrated system from stock through to accounting.

Gatorade Plant, Pepsi Co, Oklahoma
Ground clearance was completed in a short time although the site is enormous.	Many of the walls and panels of the building were modular.	An artist's rendering of the new facility.
MidAmerica Industrial park also carried out a lot of infrastructure improvements for Gatorade.

Grolsch Brewery Complex, Boekelo
Grolsch officially opened its new brewery in Enschede, Holland, in April 2004.	Work started on the new 120,000m² brewery complex in 2002.	Paroc Shadow panels being installed.
Computer generated rendering of the finished facility.	The brewery was officially opened with four production lines (two non-returnable bottle, two canned) in 2004.	Two more lines are still under construction - the returnable bottle line and a further can line.

Grupo Modelo Barley Malting Facility,
Cylindro-conical steeping vessel.	Circular stainless steel germination vessel.	Combination germination vessel and drying kiln.
Germination vessel element of multi-stack system.	Two-row barley.	Grupo Modelo's beer Negra Modelo.
Grupo Modelo's number one beer Corona Extra.	Grupo Modelo's range of beers.

Holland Malt Malting Plant,
Holland Malt believes the plant is one of the largest and most modern barley storage and malting facilities in the world with the potential to produce over 130,000t of malt per year.	The plant began construction in March 2004 in the deep-sea Port of Eemshaven at a quay with loading facilities for malt and grain to be transported by ship.	Foundation of the two malting towers – the batch size for malt production is 440t per 12-day production cycle.
Construction of a malting tower – the plant can process up to 165,000t of malting barley each year.	The new malt house is situated in the Dutch Nort Niederlands grain belt on the North Sea coast.	The germination section of the facility has six floors that can each take 440t (650kg/m²); process time here is six days.
The plant has an annual production capacity of 130,000t and a malt storage capacity of 20,000t and a barley storage capacity of 60,000t.	Holland Malt has installed the Buhler PRIMUS high-capacity grain cleaner, equipped with a 30m² sand-sieve area.	Ecosteep system.
The steeping system used at the Holland Malt plant allows uniform malt qualities.

Joseph Holt Brewery, Manchester
The KHS Till equipment installed takes up a smaller footprint than the old equipment.	Holt supplies a range of bottled beers, some of which recently won Brewing Industry International Awards in Munich, Germany.	The brewer uses hops from Kent and the Midlands in the UK, as well as from Slovenia for the lagers.
Holt uses the finest malted barley and all beers use only natural ingredients.	Holt is one of the few breweries left to keg beer in hogshead barrels for certain customers.

Kikkoman Foods Soy Sauce
Soy, from which soy sauce is derived.	Aspergillus oryzae acts on the nutrients of the soy to break down carbohydrate and protein, forming koji.	Koji is pumped to fermentation tanks where saltwater brine and yeast combine to form moromi, beginning the fermentation stage.
Moromi in fermentation tanks.	A Kikkoman employee holding a sample of koji as it appears before it is mixed with the saltwater. The koji is then transferred by a Moyno 1L12H SSQ pump to the fermentation tanks.	A selection of Kikkoman Foods products.

Kraft Leningrad Oblast Coffee Plant
Kraft has invested more than $600m in Russia in the past 15 years.	The initial production capacity of the plant was 5,000t of coffee a year.	Russia has seen a boom in coffee consumption.

Laurelwood Brewing Company, Portland, Oregon
The Laurelwood brewery building had to be modified to accommodate the new brewery.	The new brew house with copper vessels.	Brewery equipment being delivered from the Trask Brewing Company liquidation sale.
Serving tanks being installed into the refrigerated cooler at the Laurelwood brewery.	Twin fermentation vessels from Europe.

Molson Brewery, Moncton, New Brunswick
The state-of-the-art brewery required an investment of $35m to construct.	The bottling line can bottle 1,000 units per minute.	Product quality is one of the most important considerations at the plant.
Bottling and kegging are the preferred packaging media at the current time but canning may come later.	Cases ready for packing the 12 bottle units.

Molson Coors Brewery Upgrade and Expansion,
Coors plan for the reorganisation of production lines at Burton.	The new 13,000m² canning hall, ready for installation of three canning lines.	The South kegging line prior to being moved to the North site.
Bottle line 1 has been upgraded to handle 240,000 barrels a year.	A KHS depalletiser has been installed on bottle line 2.

Nestlé Food and Distribution Centre
The Nestlé facility in Anderson, Indiana was opened in June 2008.	The Anderson facility is seeing an expansion of £170m to invest in environmentally friendly production.	Ready-to-drink chocolate milk beverages and Nestlé Coffee-Mate liquid products are the main focus of the Anderson facility.
Formulation of the Nestlé products takes place under aseptic conditions.	The Anderson facility is being expanded to over 1 million square feet and will become Nestlé's centre for healthy beverages in the US.	Nesquik chocolate milk is being reformulated to reduce its sugar content and make it a healthier option for consumers.

Ocean Spray Craisin Manufacturing, Markham, Washington
The Key Technologies Raptor Optyx system being introduced at Markham.	Craisins ready to be packaged.	Cranberries growing on the bush.
Craisins bagged for the consumer in a resealable pouch.	Fresh cranberries picked, washed and ready for processing/sorting.	Groundbreaking of the phase 2 expansion in Wisconsin occurred in March 2008. The expansion is set to up Ocean Spray's production of craisins.
The Markham facility in Washington is the only craisins plant on the west coast of the US.

Port Charlotte Distillery, Islay, Scotland
Port Charlotte will re-establish itself with a new distillery.	The equipment for the Port Charlotte distellery was salvaged from the former Inverleven distillery in Dumbarton.	The equipment was recovered by ten Bruichladdich crofters and transported by barge.
Port Charlotte single malt has already been marketed by Bruichladdich and has won awards for excellence.	The island of Islay has many famous name distilleries, such as Bowmore, Laphroaigh, Aardbeg and Bruichladdich.

SAB Miller Brewery, New South Wales
Morris Lemma, the Premier of NSW (left) with Miller executives on sale of Blue Tongue.	The new brewery will have a capacity of 500,000 hectolitres per year.	The purchase of Bluetongue has given SAB Miller a series of award-winning premium Australian brands.
SAB Miller also markets a number of imported brands of beer.	A second phase could increase the capacity of the SAB Miller brewery to 1 million hectolitres per year.

Seda Solubles, Instant Coffee Manufacture, Palencia
ConRad 500 freeze-drying equipment has been installed at the Seda Solubles facility.	A range of Seda instant coffee products; the company produces about 30,000t per year for the private label market in the UK.	Granular instant coffee was first introduced to the market by Seda in 1970.
Fresh coffee beans from Guatemala.	Coffee beans drying prior to undergoing processing. Instant coffee is generally produced from the lower-quality beans.

St James's Gate Brewery,
An artist’s impression of the new brewery.	The St James Gate Brewery.	The new brewery will produce one billion pints per year.
Guinness is one of the most popular beers in the world and Diageo is now realigning its production to face new market challenges.	The old brewery will produce 500,000 pints of Guinness annually.

Starbucks Coffee Roasting Plant
The Calhoun County roasting facility is the fifth plant set up by Starbucks to supply its 16,000 coffee outlets.	Starbucks is one of the largest and most successful coffee chains in the world.	The plant roasts green beans and distributes them to centres across the US where they will be ground and packed in bulk and consumer-size packages.

Stone Brewing Co. Speciality Beer Brewery,
Stone Brewing Co. has grown from a micro-scale brewery run out of a garage to one housed in a $12m specialist brewery.	Stone Brewing Co. produces a wide range of ales, such as Arrogant Bastard Ale.	The brewery is designed to be run from a single computer control room and also via portable touch screen interfaces.
As well as the new brewery, the facility includes a visitor's centre, retail outlet and restaurant.	The new Stone Brewing Company brewhouse produces over 70,000 barrels of beer a year.	The Escondido facility incorporates a 300-seat bistro (pictured) and a retail outlet offering Stone Brewing branded merchandise.
The Stone Brewing Company has recently announced an expansion of its Escondido facility.

Sun Inbev Brewery,
The new brewery is nearly completed.	Krones have provided much of the equipment.	The brewhouse now needs to be commissioned to achieve its full production.

Vittoria Coffee, Silverwater
Italian roast coffee is dark with an oily appearance. This is due to aromatic oils being exuded onto the surface, which gives a sublime flavour.	Coffee tree with beans ready to harvest; Vittoria Coffee is now the largest pure coffee producer in Australia.	Coffee beans are roasted at Vittoria coffee using a traditional slow and controlled drum method.
Not all coffee is dark roast; some, for the American market, is a mid roast with a more acid quality to the flavour.	Coffee beans contain many chemicals which are changed by roasting to give the best flavour. Caffeine is a chemical in coffee which gives stimulant properties.

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