Breweries and pubs share the same goal – to sell beer products. This isn’t the only similarity they share; although they’re on completely different scales they both use the same resources, but in different quantities.
Water resources are used by pub businesses for small purposes such as producing ice to be served with the drinks they are selling or for cleansing the glasses that have been used throughout their opening hours; the brewery industry depends massively on this resource. Water quality is one of the most important factors of brewing, however water consumption and wastewater is a continuous hurdle that they are faced with, despite improving massively over the past 20 years. For every litre of beer that is produced, about five litres of water has been used.
Technology used throughout the brewery industry is continuously improving. Many breweries have installed wastewater systems which allow them to carry out various processes in order to remove any harmful substances from the waste water and turn it into effluent. Once these processes have been carried out successfully and the waste water is deemed safe, it is safely discharged into the environment or sometimes reused.
This industry is always seeking to discover further advanced technologies or systems that will allow them to reduce the amount of waste that is left over, or to put any left over waste to good use and become more environmentally friendly.
As well as water, electricity and gas resources are important factors for each of these businesses. Although each industry uses them for different purposes, they serve extremely important purposes to both. Whilst breweries use electricity and gas to operate machinery, produce, heat and cool their product throughout various stages, the pub industry require these to store and cool drinks, or filter the drinks through pumps so that these can be consumed by the public.
Once the final product has been produced at the brewers it is individually packed into bottles