IINM canned and bottled beer was pasteurized and didn’t need refrigeration, but draft beer was not pasteurized and had to be kept cold.
That’s a great link wm 3798 posted. As he mentioned, grain cars for National were shoved up through Shaeffers brewery to get to National. It was a pretty good grade up to the O’Donnell St. crossing.
But if you like GOOD beer, odds are Anheuser Busch is the LAST thing you think of!
I figure that if you pay $4 for a six pack of Bud’s Suds, about $3.80 of pays for the advertising… The other 20 cents pays their water bill in St. Louis… (i.e. that’s all they really sell!)
Let’s hope those Belgians give us something we can stomach!
(Back to the topic at hand…)
Lee
This board is a great place to get info.
Thank you very much to everyone that chimmed in on a question that’s been posted before several times over. I got some great inspiration and idea’s from the pic’s the links and of course from you guys in general.
Thanks again, just wanted to give praise where it was deserved. [bow]
The “sludge,” or used wort, can be used as feed additives. It is a grain byproduct. Malt is only sprouted grains, which is then “cooked” and the sugars are used to create the alcohol in the beer. Might make for an intersting load out or adjunct to a feed mill. Budwieser wort is rice and pigs and cows LOVE it and Bud sells (or at least sold) it!
If it is a big plant, you’ll need hoppers of hops. Hops are a smaller ingredient and give the beer its “sharp” or “refreshing” flavor. Kind of like the lemons in your lemonade. So you don’t need many of these incoming. Smaller breweries probably don’t need “hoppers” but could use some bags, trucked or boxcar.
I love breweries and the traffic that they can generate. I will have one on the layout that I am designing. This is certainly a modern “loads in”/“loads out” industry. In response to your packaging question, I remember being on a tour many years ago in Coor’s. I seem to remember that they made their own cans and bottles in Golden too. Also keep in mind that kegs (at least modern ones) come back for refill. Coors has tank cars “CORX” that travel to a bottling plant in Virginia, I don’t think that Bud does that, I have never seen tanks at the Fairfield, Ca plant, but they have many breweries too across the nation while at the time Coors only had one.
Don’t forget your wort cookers need to heat up the brew and if your plant doesn’t buy malt, you will have to malt the barley, this takes heat too. Do you use electricity or is the plant older and use coal to either cook or generate electricity. Pasturization of beer is relatively “new” and breweries of old were more regional than today.
Older large breweries need ice for final product shipment. I have seen a picture of a “Bud” ice reefer i
man… this thread made me thursty. Time for a Sam Adams.
Check out:
Model Railroader - Railside Brewery - an industry in 4 stages. June '69, Pg. 40
Last year I asked the same questions and a VERY helpful member here took a whole bunch of pictures for me of the Yuengling brewery in St. Clair.
That’s what I’m modeling at least. 