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The Contract Brewing Process: A Guarantee of Quality
Contract brewing goes beyond just beer production. It involves close collaboration between the client and the brewery to ensure the final product meets expectations. This collaboration also includes selecting the appropriate packaging method, a crucial element in maintaining and presenting beer quality.
Contract brewing is becoming increasingly popular in the brewing industry. This method allows breweries to produce beer according to specific requirements, often for brands or distributors without their own facilities. While this approach is known for its flexibility and customization, it sometimes raises questions about quality, particularly regarding product conditioning. This article explores how contract brewing ensures high-quality conditioning across different formats (kegs, bottles, cans, etc.) without compromising on quality.
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Contract brewing means that one brewery produces beer according to the specifications of another company or brand. This method allows brands to offer customized beers without needing their own brewing facility. Instead of dealing with the technical aspects of production, they collaborate with a specialized brewery to create recipes that meet their specific needs. This model is particularly useful for seasonal beers, such as Christmas beers and winter beers, which often require specific adjustments in terms of recipes and volume.
Christmas beers and winter beers, with their spicy flavors and rich aromas, are a must-have during the holiday season. With their growing popularity, they present a challenge for breweries: how can you meet seasonal demand while ensuring consistent quality? Contract brewing emerges as an efficient solution, allowing many breweries to create unique beers without the need to invest in expensive equipment. This article explores the advantages of contract brewing for Christmas beers and winter beers, highlighting its efficiency, flexibility, and ability to guarantee superior quality.
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For over 20 years, Bière Magazine has been introducing you to the many facets of beer in France and around the globe. The beer world evolves every day. The explosion of craft breweries in France and worldwide is an astonishing phenomenon. Whether you’re an amateur or a professional, everything you’ve always wanted to know about beer can be found in Bière Magazine!
Last month, on October 17 and 18, 2024, we had the honor of being featured on the 2nd cover of Bière Magazine, and we are quite proud of it!
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Contract brewing allows large-scale beer production while preserving the authenticity of artisanal craftsmanship. Successful contract breweries, like BCB, challenge misconceptions by winning awards in international competitions. These breweries provide tailored solutions and ensure strict recipe adherence through modern facilities and expert brewers. With advantages like increased production capacity, reduced financial risks, and flexibility for innovation, contract brewing offers high-quality, consistent results, proving itself as a modern solution to traditional brewing challenges.
Contract Brewing: Balancing Large-Scale Production with Artisan Quality
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Dark beers like stouts and porters offer rich flavors such as roasted malt, coffee, and chocolate, making them ideal for Black Friday promotions. These beers use a range of unique ingredients, from lactose to vanilla, giving brewers creative freedom to experiment. BCB excels in dark beer production, thanks to advanced filtration, allowing them to handle intense roasted malts with ease.
Black beer, brown beer, and stout are often confused, but they have significant differences in taste and brewing methods.
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Contract brewing, once seen as a lower-quality industrial practice, is now recognized for its ability to produce high-quality beers. Many international competitions, such as the World Beer Awards and the European Beer Star Awards, now accept contract-brewed beers. These beers often win prestigious awards, proving that outsourcing production does not affect their quality. Contract brewing allows brands to maintain control over recipes while benefiting from the expertise and modern facilities of third-party breweries. This method offers flexibility, innovation, and consistency in brewing quality.
Contract-Brewed Beers: Award-Winning Quality Recognized in International Competitions
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Pumpkin beer is a special type of brew that is often made with pumpkin puree and a blend of autumn spices like cinnamon and nutmeg. It has a warm, rich flavor that perfectly fits the Halloween season and fall.
Pumpkin beer and Halloween are a perfect match!
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As canned beer becomes a rapidly growing market in the brewing industry, why not consider this increasingly attractive packaging option?
Opting for canned beer is an excellent alternative for entering this rapidly expanding market, which is growing in volume in Belgium.
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Brewers’ grain, a byproduct of beer brewing, is rich in protein and fibre, making it an ideal animal feed. Its use not only reduces food waste but also supports local farmers and promotes animal well-being. This initiative highlights the collaboration between agriculture and industry, contributing to a circular economy and a sustainable future.
Brewers' grain is a sustainable animal feed, reducing waste and supporting local farmers.
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But how do you start? Buy a few kettles and start brewing yourself, of course. But how are the tanks cooled? Doesn’t that consume a lot of electricity? And how do we handle the bottling? Hand-filling several hectoliters can be fun for a while, but spending your entire Saturday or Sunday doing it might be too much. And what about oxygen ingress during filling? Or applying the labels?
Brewing beer is not easy, and it requires not only knowledge and craftsmanship but also significant investment. The smaller the setup, the higher the investment—and thus the risk—per liter.
In this blog post, we explain why choosing a contract brewery can be interesting for brewing beers you want to commercialize.
Are you enterprising and passionate about beer? Then you’ve probably considered launching your own beer or non-alcoholic beer on the market.
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Most beers are best enjoyed cold (3-7°C), while others are best served ice-cold. However, the colder the beer, the less the flavor and aroma come through. This is partly because the taste buds become numbed, but also because the alcohol in the beer evaporates more slowly, thus spreading the aromas less.
During summer temperatures, a refreshing (non-alcoholic?) beer can truly be satisfying.
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The terms “alcohol-free” and “0.0 beer” are often used interchangeably, but there’s a crucial distinction. In many countries, beers with an alcohol content of up to 0.1% can be labeled “alcohol-free.” True 0.0 beers, on the other hand, are guaranteed to contain absolutely no alcohol.
Alcohol-Free vs. 0.0 Beer: Understanding the Difference
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BCB started developing several non-alcoholic beers for the English market in 2018. In the following years, the brewery further specialized in non-alcoholic beer, which today can no longer be considered a niche.
Today, BCB produces more than 90 non-alcoholic beers for customers in various countries, while demand continues to grow.
The history of non-alcoholic beer is closely tied to broader trends in the beer industry and societal changes.
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Contract brewing offers you the opportunity to best meet your requirements while closely respecting your brand image!
To optimise the brewing of your beers, a specialised contract brewery relies on three fundamental pillars: flexibility; quantity and quality.
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As a contract brewery, we have specialised knowledge and experience in the brewing process, enabling us to deliver high-quality and consistent results.
Setting up and opening your own brewery is more complicated than you think. Benefiting from expertise and personal support in the creation of your products, from design to bottling, is the first benefit of bespoke brewing. 5 reasons to brew custom:
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At BCB, being a contract brewery, we follow a unique business model that demands not only efficiency but also the highest level of flexibility. When you trust us to brew your beer, you expect not only quality but also consistency, regardless of the brewing volume you require.
A brewery with the highest level of flexibility, like BCB, necessitates a production facility that involves advanced engineering. Only in this way can we brew your beer in a consistent and high-quality manner.
Here, we outline the aspects that received our attention during the development of our contract brewery:
A brewery with the highest level of flexibility, like BCB, necessitates a production facility that involves advanced engineering.
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In recent years, we have been witnessing a remarkable shift in our market from the front row: the steadily growing popularity of alcohol-free beers. What was once considered a niche product for designated drivers and those looking to take a break from alcohol consumption has now evolved into a thriving trend that is fundamentally transforming both the beer industry and the consumer market. Let us delve deeper into the rise of alcohol-free beers and the factors fuelling this remarkable shift.
In recent years, we have been witnessing a remarkable shift in our market from the front row: the steadily growing popularity of alcohol-free beers.
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A name change is not an evident process for a business. Changing a name has a profound impact, be it personal names, company names or any other name.
It needs to be done thoughtfully and with the necessary preparation.
In this blog article, we would like to take a closer look at our own identity and why we made our name change.
From Eutropius Brewery to BCB
From Eutropius Brewery to BCB
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