Efficiency

From hard-plumbed process piping to the draft lines in your tasting room, the more precisely you can monitor the flow of liquids, the more efficient—and profitable—your brewery can be.

Making more beer in less time with fewer raw materials is the selling point for mash-filter systems—but for intrepid brewers, the technology also offers new creative possibilities.

From event spaces to hop products and negotiating with suppliers, here’s how some breweries are prioritizing operational sustainability in uncertain times.

Whether you’re upgrading a packaging line or adding contract capabilities, there are good deals to be found on used equipment even if you’re not expanding your own production.

Once the purview of large-scale production plants, recovering the carbon dioxide produced during fermentation is increasingly viable for smaller craft breweries—and it’s increasingly popular, too.

Gaining visibility on your brewery’s use of carbon dioxide can help protect your team and the bottom line.

As the climate changes, so does our malt. With the weather in barley-growing regions more prone to extremes than it once was, brewers are often facing lower efficiencies, higher finishing gravities, or stubborn lauters—unless they’re ready to adjust.

What’s really going on in that lauter tun, anyway—and how long’s it going to take? Stuck or slow sparges can disrupt production and quality. Let’s zoom in on how best to manage the process and avoid surprises.

With costs up and growth flat, here’s how skilled brewers are making the most of every brewhouse turn.

Brewers share strategies for reducing costs on craft beer’s most competitive style.

Here’s how software for enterprise resource planning has helped breweries unlock previously invisible insights that can save money and grow sales.

While not without its costs, a mash filter press can dramatically increase efficiencies and lower costs. It can also open the door to some unusual beers that would be challenging or impossible with a typical lauter tun.

As prices increase on everything from PakTech carriers to cardboard, here’s how breweries are thinking creatively—and sustainably—to reduce costs.

Beyond strictly keeping track of dollars and cents, remaining in tune with less tangible metrics, such as employee and customer satisfaction, helps keep a brewery operating at peak efficiency.