Breweries

One of the United States’ most successful breweries rolled back into action yesterday just five days after a blaze sparked by welding work tore through its canning and bottling operations.   The flames caused an estimated $10 million in damage at ...

The United States’ sixth largest craft brewery will today announce the cause of a fire that decimated its bottling and canning lines and caused an estimated $10million damage at its New York state facility last Thursday.   The blaze at The ...

The British craft brewing industry appears to be gaining momentum with the announcement that a brewpub chain is eying new areas for expansion. The latest branch of Zerodegrees – a chain of award-winning craft beer restaurants – opened this month ...

A brewery that has carved out a name for itself as an innovator and bagged a clutch of awards in its short history is set to quadruple its production with the opening of a new 30-barrel brewery. Derbyshire’s Thornbridge Brewery ...

Diageo has affirmed Ireland its centre of global brewing excellence, announcing yesterday capital expenditure plans totalling 650 million euros (£520m) over the next five years.Surprising sceptics who anticipated the closure of St James’s Gate when Diageo announced its operations review ...

Heineken has announced that it is to build its much anticipated first South African brewery in the Sedibeng area between Vereeniging and Alberton, south of Johannesburg.The greenfield plant, initially with a three million hectolitre capacity, will cover 80 hectares. Work ...

Pacific Beverages, the Australian premium brands joint venture of SABMiller and Coca-Cola Amatil, are to build a greenfield brewery in New South Wales to boost production of premium beer brands.The brewery, to be located on the Central Coast near the ...

Despite strong expected interest in the planned privatization of Budejovicky Budvar, the current Czech government has decided it will not sell the brewery.“While ministers believe a strategic owner is the best option for Budvar, the company would first have to ...

A bomb scare forced Budvar to stop production and evacuate its brewery in Ceske Budejovice on 9 January.An anonymous caller to local police claimed an explosive device had been left at the brewery. Police and bomb disposal experts were called ...

Royal Unibrew said today that it is considering closure of one of their four breweries in its home market of Denmark. It has initiated negotiations with production workers at the Ceres Brewery in Arhus, central Jutland, regarding contemplated redundancies.The multinational ...

Carlsberg’s Portuguese unit, Unicer, is contributing to the multinational’s efforts to cut costs in its Western European operations with the closure of one of its breweries.The brewery, located in Loule in southern Portugal, will close by the end of this ...

Carlsberg and state-owned Hanoi Beer & Beverage Corporation (Habeco) have formed a joint venture to build a brewery in southern Vietnam.The brewery will be located in Vung Tau province, approximately 50 kilometres outside Ho Chi Minh City, said to be ...

Baltic Beverages Holding inaugurates its new brewery in Uzbekistan today. The 50 million euro greenfield brewery is located in the capital, Tashkent, and has an initial capacity of one million hectolitres. There is potential to double capacity by the end ...