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Just a few comments on the brewery you're building...I was one of the start-up Engineers on the Miller Irwindale plant mentioned earlier on...there is also a small tank house, and high pressure gas storage tanks..the tank house is for unloading molasses..that's right..it's a major part of beer..the sugar reacts with the yeast to ferment the wort, create more yeast, which is pulled off for future brews and sold to stores as "Brewers yeast" and create CO2, which is pulled off and stored in the high pressure tanks, to be injected into the aged beer (non-carbonated at this point) under extreme pressure just prior to packaging..it then goes to the pasteurizers and finally the palletizers to be stacked and wrapped and finally shipped...the only products shipped cold are the "pony" kegs..tappers if you will, because they are not pasteurized..Coors HAD to ship cold, because none of their product was pastuerized..so the reefer traffic is minimal...also, the spent grain isn't transported in hoppers...it's augered out of the dump hoppers hot, right into open top trailers...this stuff will solidify if it cools, so cleaning the hoppers could be a major task..it's also extremely abrasive, and the augers or screws in the Moyno pumps (dairy grade) are replaced frequently...anyway, that's probably more then you wanted to know, but now you can have trucks to haul off the spent grain, tanker cars for molasses, boxes for the beer and a reefer of two for the cold products..Miller also sold off excess CO2 to fire protection companies and it left the plant in tank trucks and hi-pressure tank cars..one last thing..I know of no brewery that uses city water...Bud and Miller plants in Ca all sink deep wells..not just for the pure water, but the cost...MIller Irwindale is a 20 million bbl plant...at the time I was there, in the mid 70's, a six pack of High Life cost about 6 cents to make, package and ship...thats after the CO2, yeast and spent grain is sold off...not bad....if you have any more questions, we can take it to em if you wish....I'll be making a replica of the Miller plant on my new layout...
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