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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.
It’s been about a year since I last looked at craft beer packaging. Since that point, a lot has changed. The biggest shift has been the continued increase in share by cans. Although bottles still remain the majority of packaging …Read More
The Glass Recycling Coalition discusses how packaging breweries of all sizes can make a significant impact on the success of glass recycling.Read More
The BA Technical Committee Keg Repatriation working group members believe that education at all levels of the beer supply chain is key to solving the expensive problem of keg repatriation. Here are basic questions and answers about stray kegs to …Read More
All industry stakeholders have a role to play in returning kegs to their owners. This post includes best practices for everyone using kegs.Read More
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
Did you know containers like glass bottles and aluminum cans contribute to roughly 40% of the greenhouse gas emissions throughout the lifecycle of a packaged beer? And that the recycled content of our containers is typically less than half of …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 As with everything in craft, packaging is an area where change is the constant, so older analyses quickly go out of date.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
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