BREWING AWARD
October 1st, 2002
BY ALAN OSBORNA GERMAN manufacturer of brewery equipment has joined with a Luxembourg beer brewer to commercialise a technique that they claim can save 55 per cent of the energy required for boiling wort, a major process in beer production. Steinecker Maschinenfabrik and Bofferding Brasserie Nationale have won an EU European Business Award for the Environment for their Merlin process which reduces evaporation in wort boiling from the usual 8-11 per cent to 3-4 per cent. The companies say that the use ofmoderate boiling conditions means that water consumption, ...
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