The rumor and random babble thread

[mr x]

No problem from here, I'll check them out today. See if that's it on cost. I'll not get them if there is a deposit?

[chalmers]

If we can figure out what to do with the syrup (Drink it somehow? Syrup wrestling at the Spring Event? Make our own 5-hour Energy Slop? etc), I'm in for one. Especially if there's no deposit to worry about, I'd imagine there will be a buyer for any/all of them.

[mr x]

When did all become soda fans? Did you guys know how many hundreds of full kegs of syrup that were poured out on the keg buy? Lol

[NASH]

If they are kegs they should be full of pop not syrup. Just sayin'

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[chalmers]

Thanks to TJ for the article.

The brewery will operate with a 4.7-hectolitre system and projects first-year production volumes to be between 80,000 litres and 120,000 litres of beer, the equivalent of about 800 cases of beer.

Take the middle ground, 100,000litres / 660mL bombers = 151,515 bottles. Either those are some big cases (189 bottles per case), or someone failed grade 2 math.
More importantly:
100,000litres / 470litre system = 213 brews during the year. This is probably doable, but probably not for a one-man operation, and unless he's got a serious warehouse full of fermenters.

The Canadian definition of a microbrewery is any operation that produces less than 300,000 hectolitres but more than more than 3,000 hectolitres of beer annually.

A microbrewery is (supposedly) defined as producing between 300,000 and 30,000,000 litres of beer. So this is (much) smaller than a microbrewery. Great reporting. As relevant: My cat's breath smells like cat food, news at 11.

I believe most of the facts in this story, except for any of the numbers. Except maybe the brewery size, and the fact that they are investing less than $100,000. Everything else is suspect to me. I blame the reporter, not Burbridge.

[chalmers]

If they are kegs they should be full of pop not syrup. Just sayin'

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Cool. Hopefully it's still drinkable.

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ps. NASH: The fox is in the henhouse. I repeat, fox is in the henhouse. Plans are proceeding as previously discussed. Delivery possible next Thursday?

[vgoreham]

If they are kegs they should be full of pop not syrup. Just sayin'

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Cool. Hopefully it's still drinkable.

Sent from my laptop sitting on my lap in front of the TV farting around while I should be working, using my stubby fingers.

ps. NASH: The fox is in the henhouse. I repeat, fox is in the henhouse. Plans are proceeding as previously discussed. Delivery possible next Thursday?

My girlfriend laughed when I said you were working from home. I guess she's seen me do it enough that she knows what that means now....

[mr x]

Ok there was a $25 deposit, so I didn't do it. Not sure what the deal is, they seem to be using them here...???

[erslar00]

Someone I know apparaently picked one up out of the basement of a S@WAY in new Brunswick in late 2009 or early 2010... it was a Pepsi one and had pop in it. It wasn't hooked up when it he took it so i don't know if it was just sitting around or was still in active use at that time. I was surprised because I thought they had all been decommissioned by that point. ??

[CorneliusAlphonse]

When I was down at the metro centre last (about a year ago) I noticed that they still had corney kegs hooked up in their bar thing for pop. might've changed by now, but at least then they were using em..

[mr x]

Quidi vidi doubling deposit on iceberg beer in order to get the blue bottles back.

Something about non-green beer on cbc mainstreet shortly.

[mr x]

Mr. Titus doesn't believe in additives in the beer. Too bad, I hear green food coloring is high in gypsum and calcium chloride, hahahaha....

I kill me.

[KMcK]

My very reliable source claims that Pepsi hasn't gotten rid of its kegs locally yet. The group buy must have been sourced from another region.

[mr x]

Our GB was for coke. Strangely, when Coke switched to boxed format, they refused to let Cash&Carry sell their product anymore.

[NASH]

Pepsi still uses the kegs in the Maritimes and are actually short-handed on them since they don't have stock piles of them to dip into from the rest of the country

[NASH]

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ps. NASH: The fox is in the henhouse. I repeat, fox is in the henhouse. Plans are proceeding as previously discussed. Delivery possible next Thursday?

Awesome. Whichever day works best for you, I'll be awaiting your arrival

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[derek]

The brewery will operate with a 4.7-hectolitre system and projects first-year production volumes to be between 80,000 litres and 120,000 litres of beer, the equivalent of about 800 cases of beer.

Take the middle ground, 100,000litres / 660mL bombers = 151,515 bottles.

.... As relevant: My cat's breath smells like cat food, news at 11.

I believe most of the facts in this story, except for any of the numbers.

The numbers are fairly close if we just assume they slipped a decimal point and it's 8,000 to 12,000l (well, 6,000 to 12,000).

I don't understand, though, why you'd want to get close enough to a cat to smell its breath?

[TimG]

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[akr71]

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I can’t afford to implement the zero emissions model out of the gate so the first step is to establish a brewery that makes great beer that people want to buy. Often people forget that business sustainability is part of environmental sustainability and not in conflict

I wish him all the best. It doesn't sound so pie-in-sky & sounds like he knows its going to be a lot of work. More choice is a good thing.

[KMcK]

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I can’t afford to implement the zero emissions model out of the gate so the first step is to establish a brewery that makes great beer that people want to buy. Often people forget that business sustainability is part of environmental sustainability and not in conflict

I wish him all the best. It doesn't sound so pie-in-sky & sounds like he knows its going to be a lot of work. More choice is a good thing.

He hasn't supplied a zero emissions model, he supplied a zero waste model. His brewery can't be zero emissions unless he captures and sequesters all the CO2 produced during brewing and sells his beer flat.

[derek]

He hasn't supplied a zero emissions model, he supplied a zero waste model. His brewery can't be zero emissions unless he captures and sequesters all the CO2 produced during brewing and sells his beer flat.

I don't know - I think you can make a pretty good case for "zero emissions" if you capture all the CO2 and pump it into the beer.

[KMcK]

He hasn't supplied a zero emissions model, he supplied a zero waste model. His brewery can't be zero emissions unless he captures and sequesters all the CO2 produced during brewing and sells his beer flat.

I don't know - I think you can make a pretty good case for "zero emissions" if you capture all the CO2 and pump it into the beer.

Sure, if you never open the beer.

[Jimmy]

The customer is supposed to open the bottle, not him.

[derek]

He hasn't supplied a zero emissions model, he supplied a zero waste model. His brewery can't be zero emissions unless he captures and sequesters all the CO2 produced during brewing and sells his beer flat.

I don't know - I think you can make a pretty good case for "zero emissions" if you capture all the CO2 and pump it into the beer.

Sure, if you never open the beer.

No, CO2 has to be taken from somewhere to put it into beer, anyway, so if you're capturing it from your own processes, it's net zero. What's the process used to make tanked CO2, anyway?

[know1]

He hasn't supplied a zero emissions model, he supplied a zero waste model. His brewery can't be zero emissions unless he captures and sequesters all the CO2 produced during brewing and sells his beer flat.

I don't know - I think you can make a pretty good case for "zero emissions" if you capture all the CO2 and pump it into the beer.

Sure, if you never open the beer.

Some dirty industrial plants have to buy green credits to offset their emissions. In this case they could give away/sell heavily discounted beer for customers to release the CO2 off site.