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April 2015
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of twists on every bottle and we’re running
closer to about 1600 bottles/hour now so
that’s been good efficiency.”
“We’ve also made changes to our bottling
line,” Zomper Haney continued. “A few years
ago before we bottled, we were pre-boxing
every box that we would need – we’d look at
how big of a batch we were going to do and
say ‘ok this is going to be 400 cases so some-
one has to go and assemble 200 to 400 boxes.
We added an automated box former to the
bottling line so that way we’re not paying
someone hours of work ahead of time. The
boxes are actually being formed and filled
while we we’re bottling, so that’s a time saver
there.”
SUB BRANDS
The allure of craft beer is not for everybody.
But some find beauty and adrenaline in ven-
turing off the beaten path. And for Adelbert’s
Brewery, the only rules they have is: keep it
authentic and never say no to an idea.
“99% of our ingredients are coming directly
from Europe. We are as authentic Europe-
an Belgian Style Ales as you can get in the
United States. Our malt is coming from Bel-
gium and the Czech Republic, so everything
is sourced from Europe and almost every
beer we use is a European hop-strain. We
use traditional Belgian yeast-strain; the only
thing that isn’t Europe is our water,” Zomper
Haney said.