Building a Better Brewery Safety Culture
Your brewery contains a variety of safety hazards. Collectively, these hazards and your existing company culture define your safety culture. How does yours measure up?
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Your brewery contains a variety of safety hazards. Collectively, these hazards and your existing company culture define your safety culture. How does yours measure up?
Breweries are full of confined spaces, from grain silos to brewhouse vessels. All of them need inspection, cleaning, and repairs at one time or another. What’s a brewer to do?
Common brewing ingredients, in the right (or wrong) conditions, can present a much greater hazard than fire, in the form of a flash fire (fireball) or explosion.
How do nanobreweries develop proper cleaning protocols and safely handle the chemicals needed for the process? Established brewers share their experiences.
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the author presents a special pairing menu of courses both cooked with and paired with the perfect beer, with a Bavarian flair.
New facilities for breweries such as Sierra Nevada and New Belgium provide the opportunity to start from the ground up and fully implement sustainable practices.
The six cutting-edge craft brewery/restaurants featured here are taking care of the environment, their communities, and their employees. The difference is palpable.
We brewers take it for granted that brewing equipment of all types gets passed around from one brewery to another. If only these tanks could talk.
As craft breweries expand and rotate equipment in and out of the brewhouse, a niche of brewery “deconstructors” continues to emerge.
Two years later, the author follows up on the stories of “The New Craft Brewers” that appeared in the March/April 2011 The New Brewer. Plus, five more breweries to watch.