Total transformation for brewery on Sardinia:
For several years now everyday work at the brewery in
Cagliari has been punctuated by the sounds of building, ham
mering, welding and drilling. The brewery, acquired by
Dreher in 1987, is undergoing a total transformation. Jan
Huisman was production manager in Cagliari for two years
and enjoyed all that bustle of activity. "Sometimes it may
have been a bit too much of a good thing, but I think it's great
to work in a brewery where everything's happening."
Brewhouse
Terrific pace
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The new bright beer filtering equipment.
"Cagliari will become
Dreher's finest brewery
Huisman has taken over respon
sibility for this brewery. In addition
The filled products store: to be doubled in size by next March.
Three years ago the brewery's
output was 226,000 hectolitres.
This year the volume has already
reached 400,000 hectolitres and in
1991 it should be as high as
700,000 hectolitres. Almost
a threefold increase in five years!
As he walks round the brewery,
Huisman lists the projects which
have already been completed. It's
an impressive list: a new unloading
bay for malt and maize, a C02
recuperation system, modernisa
tion of the steam boilers, expan
sion of the silo capacity for malt
and maize, anew keg line and
a new office.
At the moment many big-scale
projects are still under way. For
instance, before the 1990 season
(which starts on 1st March) the
doubling in the size of the
brewhouse will have to be com
pleted. HTB's Aad Been and Jan
van Niersen are on the spot to pro
vide technical supervision of the
project. The expansion of the cool
ing capacity is also scheduled for
completion by next March.
A total replacement of the cel
lars is in full swing. Again before
that magic date of 1st March the
automation of the cellars should be
ready as regards filling, emptying,
fermentation, yeast recovery and
cleansing.
Intensive work is currently also
being done on doubling the filled
products store and on building
a new central warehouse for mate
rials which are not directly related
to the brewing process.
This machine has been installed for CO 2 recuperation.
he is still in charge of quality con
trol in Cagliari. For, despite all the
modernisation work, the brewing
of Heineken beer, Dreher and
Ichnusa is continuing as normal.
At a terrific pace the brewery
is undergoing a transformation.
Though Huisman may sometimes
feel it's going slightly too quickly,
he immediately adds with pride:
"Cagliari will become Dreher's
finest brewery."
Birra Ichnusa is very popular on Sardinia. Consumers have noticed
a tremendous improvement in the beer's quality in recent years thanks to
a lot of technical upgrading of the brewery's facilities
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Jan Huisman was closely in- Jan van Niersen (left) and Aad Been, both from HTB, are in Cagliari to
volved in the rebuilding and build- provide technical supervision of the expansion of the brewhouse.
ing activities for more than two
years. Since May this year he has
been general manager of the brew
ery in Macomer, Dreher's other
brewery on Sardinia. As from 1st
January brewing will be discon
tinued in Macomer. The brewery
there will still continue to bottle
beer until the end of 1991 or the
beginning of 1992. This beer will
be transported from Cagliari to
Macomer by road tanker. The
intention is that as from 1992 the -
then former brewery - will concen
trate on the bottling of mineral
water.
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