Technical Session 19: Outside the Box Session
Jaime Jurado, Susquehanna Brewing Company, Pittston, PA, USA
ABSTRACT: America’s craft brewing heritage is enhanced by
breweries investing in technical solutions to improve their
environmental stewardship. The largest craft breweries may enjoy some
advantages due to scale, as do large national breweries, but much can be
done in small craft breweries using traditional tools of cost-benefit
and payback evaluation. Focusing on possible energy decisions for the
small artisanal brewery, an exploration of the choices for a new brewery
versus a brewery evaluating a change or retrofit. Areas discussed
include decisions addressing steam production and consumption,
compressed air, refrigeration, cleaning and sanitation, microbiological
beer stability, and packaging. Sample calculations are presented for a
brewery initially built for 17,500 bbl/year but with a second phase of
40,000 bbl/year and final phase of 100,000 bbl/year.
Jaime
Jurado is masterbrewer/operations partner for Susquehanna Brewing
Company. His engineering degrees are in chemical and electrical
engineering at the undergraduate and graduate levels; he also did
additional post-graduate work in medical engineering. He was educated in
brewing as a Praktikant in the Bavarian breweries of
Patrizier-Brau AG under the guidance of Peter Hellich and U. Ost and has
been in professional brewing since 1983. Jaime served as director of
brewing operations at The Gambrinus Company breweries for nearly 15
years until the end of 2011 and was at The Stroh Brewery Company prior
to Gambrinus. He is a senior member of the AIChE, past chair of a
440-strong ACS section, and past president of MBAA.
