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Brewery Resource Roadshow Bristol 16 th February 2017 Cask Beer Containers & Closure Selection

Brewery Resource Roadshow Bristol 16 th February 2017 Cask Beer Containers & Closure Selection. Barry A Jones Rankin Brothers & Sons. Cask Conditioned Beer (Real Ale).

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Brewery Resource Roadshow Bristol 16 th February 2017 Cask Beer Containers & Closure Selection

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  1. Brewery Resource RoadshowBristol16th February 2017Cask Beer Containers&Closure Selection Barry A Jones Rankin Brothers & Sons

  2. Cask Conditioned Beer(Real Ale) “beer brewed from traditional ingredients, matured by secondary fermentation in the container from which it is dispensed and served without the use of extraneous gas” Statement from CAMRA

  3. Container Sizes • 4½ Gallon Pin – w, a, s/s & plastic • 9 Gallon Firkin – w, a, s/s & plastic • 10 Gallon (Whitbread/InBev) – s/s • 11 Gallon (½ hectolitre) – a & s/s • 18 Gallon Kilderkin – w, a & s/s • 22 Gallon (hectolitre) – a & s/s • 36 Gallon Barrel – w, a & s/s • 54 Gallon Hogshead – w & a

  4. Stainless Steel - advantages • Easy to maintain • No need for a liner • Unlimited choice of cleaners/sterilizers • Easy automatic handling • Either fabricated or deep drawn • Availability – 1 UK, 1 French, 1 Spanish & 2 Chinese suppliers.

  5. Stainless Steel - disadvantages • Weight for large containers • Denting & chime damage • Repair costs – need for outside specialist • Theft

  6. Plastic - advantages • Price • BP stackable • Light weight • No scrap value • Colour coding

  7. Plastic - disadvantages • Supply – only BP & Emmerald • Quality – splits/breakages/distortion • Specification – volume/hole sizes • Sealability – variation in shive bush size • Weight – too light for large volume brewery washers/auto tilt devices • Strength – squashed by large volume brewery rackers & fork trucks

  8. Closure Selection? • Wood – shive, keystone, tut & spile (peg) • Plastic – shive, keystone, tut, spile & tap hole bung • Cork – tut & tap hole bung

  9. Wood - advantages • Natural product • Swells when wet • Spile – porous to allow CO2 to escape, hard to seal but when loose to allow O2 ingress

  10. Wood - disadvantages • Pieces in cask often not removed by washing therefore needing to be removed by hand • Keystone breakage on tapping • Shive breakage on removal • Potential infection of beer from debris or contaminated spiles • Microbiological issues (mould/flies) • Price

  11. Plastic - advantages • Price • Sterility • Only small pieces fall into the cask easliy removed by washing process • Can use colour to denote quality/brand • Can print/mould for branding

  12. Plastic - disadvantages • Leaking – do not swell to take neck discrepancies therefore a need for various sizes • Leaking – highly conditioned beers in high ambient temperatures (normally keystones)

  13. Cork • Used as tap hole bung • Used as tut hole bung • Alternatives are a plastic tap hole bung (UB) & either the spile or plastic tut to seal shive

  14. Stainless Steel - Suppliers • Kammac – C/D band shive, No2 keystone • Portinox – supply Kammac (Spanish) • Hereford – C/D band shive, No.2 keystone • Maison Neuve – C/D band shive, No.3 keystone (French) • Sovereign – C/D band shive, No.2 keystone (Chinese) • Crusader – C band shive, No.2 keystone (Chinese)

  15. Kammac • The No.4 shive bush takes a C band shive • Kammac have a choice of 9 bush sizes • No.2 keystone

  16. Hereford Casks • C band, D band • No. 2 keystone

  17. Maison Neuve C band for most including E Casks but D band for some such as GK No.3 keystone housing – use No.2 thermoplastic

  18. Sovereign Beverage Co • C band shive for most including E-Casks but also produce for D band • No.2 keystone

  19. Crusader Kegs & Casks • C band shive although they claim to manufacture to customers’ requirements • No.2 keystone

  20. Emmerald Polymers (GPS) • Own threaded shive, No.2 keystones (K2)

  21. Emmerald - Disadvantages • Weeping issues around shive, need to retighten • Threaded shive – non percussive so tool required – one supplier & expensive • Price v Brewery Plastics • Height/weight

  22. Brewery Plastics(CypherCo) • Own shive (T&EP), A or B band. • No.2 thermoplastic keystone

  23. Brewery Plastics - Disadvantages • Shive hole variation & ovality • Shive hole ridges • 3 piece construction • Keystone housing at both ends • Weight • Lack of Customer Service

  24. Leakers – Weld Problems

  25. Leakers –Weld Problems

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