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There is so much more that goes into making beer than just the ingredients. This section will introduce you to best practices for packaging materials, including kegs, cans, and glass, as well as process aids.
The Golden Rule KegReturn.com is designed to provide tools to help anyone redirect a keg towards its home brewery. Returning a keg to its owner is the right thing to do—if you lost your wallet you’d hope someone would return it …Read More
Many Brewers Association member breweries have been contacted by their local scrap yards letting them know that someone has tried to sell one or more of their kegs for scrap value. At 30 pounds empty weight, a typical stainless steel …Read More
One of the most frequent data requests I’ve been getting recently relates to packaging. As with everything in craft, packaging is an area where change is the constant, so older analyses quickly go out of date. Packaging is also an area where …Read More
Keg loss is a big issue for the craft brewing industry. The BA estimates that keg loss costs each brewery between $.46 and $1.37 per barrel of beer they produce. Read More
As we’ve grown, we are seeing an increased handling of full kegs throughout the brewery. One of our crew recently developed a tendon strain in his wrist from moving kegs. We had always been focused on the safety aspects of …Read More
Given some recent changes in the canning market, I thought it would be helpful to outline the key facts/figures related to craft brewers and cans. For years, craft brewers relied heavily on two package formats, bottles and draught. However, over …Read More
The Safety Exchange Responds to: When we load DE into the filter...we see the DE in the air. How do we know when there is too much?Read More
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