Sustainability Session
Gordon Jackson, Campden BRI, Coopers Hill Road, Nutfield, Surrey, RH1 4HY, UK
Co-author(s): Conor Donoghue and Anastassia Johnson, Campden BRI,
Nutfield, UK; Fons Pennartz, KWA Business Consultants, Amersfoort,
Netherlands
ABSTRACT: This paper presents the results of benchmarking
of energy and water use at the main brewing and packaging process steps.
This is based on recently collected data from a range of breweries
around the world. Data is collected by questionnaires, and the results
will be presented as mean values and ranges for key brewing and
packaging steps. This will enable brewers to compare energy and water
use at these key steps with similar operations in other breweries. It
will therefore highlight the steps where efforts should be targeted to
minimize usage and hence reduce costs. Most previous benchmarking
studies have concentrated on total energy use (MJ/hL of beer) and total
water use (Hl/hL); however, while this enables the brewer to compare
performance overall it does not indicate which areas of the process
should be concentrated on for improvements. Collecting data at the
process level allows a like-for-like comparison of energy and water use
and helps to target resources.
Gordon Jackson has worked at BRI
(now Campden BRI) for more than 30 years. He has been involved with a
range of different issues for breweries and has worked onsite in over a
hundred breweries. He has been involved with environmental issues for
breweries for many years, for example in projects to benchmark energy
and water use. He has also been involved with carbon footprinting for
breweries. He has given presentations on environmental issues at several
key conferences.
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