Page 1 Page 2 Page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 Page 7 Page 8 Page 9 Page 10 Page 11 Page 12 Page 13 Page 14 Page 15 Page 16 Page 17 Page 18 Page 19 Page 20 Page 21 Page 22 Page 23 Page 24 Page 25 Page 26 Page 27 Page 28 Page 29 Page 30 Page 31 Page 32 Page 33 Page 34 Page 35 Page 36 Page 37 Page 38 Page 39 Page 40 Page 41 Page 42 Page 43 Page 44 Page 45 Page 46 Page 47 Page 48 Page 49 Page 50 Page 51 Page 52 Page 53 Page 54 Page 55 Page 56 Page 57 Page 58 Page 59 Page 60 Page 61 Page 62 Page 63 Page 64 Page 65 Page 66 Page 67 Page 68 Page 69 Page 70 Page 71 Page 72 Page 73 Page 74 Page 75 Page 76 Page 77 Page 78 Page 79 Page 80 Page 81 Page 82 Page 83 Page 8432 BREWING & BEVERAGE INDUSTRIES BUSINESS BeerX 2017 PREVIEW Cask Canarchy in the UK Over the next 30 pages, exhibitors at SIBA’s showpiece exhibition in Sheffield give visitors to this year’s event a taster of what they can expect to see on the stands. In May 2013, London’s Camden Town Brewery released a full- flavoured beer in the most reviled package a small-batch brewer could use: the aluminum can. The move - the craft beer equivalent of the Sex Pistols’ 1976 release of Anarchy in the UK - was made possible by the status-quo smashers at Cask Brewing Systems, the inventors of micro-canning for craft brewers. Two more rule-breaking UK craft brewers – Fourpure and Beavertown – soon fired up their Cask machines and England’s canned craft beer revolution was underway. Today about 20 UK craft brewers (including London Fields, Williams Brothers, Concrete Cow and others) fill their cans on their own Cask machines. Many more count on Cask gear through the UK’s first mobile canning service, We Can Solutions. Fourpure’s sales exploded with the release of its cans. “In our first month,” Fourpure’s Daniel Lowe recalls, “our cans doubled our historic bottle sales. The second month they quadrupled them.” Cask customers across the UK have experienced similar boosts in sales by adopting cans. To help its breweries keep up with demand, Cask’s latest innovation - the ACS X2 - doubles the power of its iconic ACS machine. The X2 features ten CO2 pre-purge heads, ten fill heads, and two can seamers. The new ACS X2 fills and seams 75+ cans/minute and 190+ cases/hour and requires just two operators. The machine has a tiny 2’ by 14’ footprint and produces filled cans with extremely low dissolved oxygen levels of just 15-20 parts per billion. “Our focus,” says Cask founder Peter Love, “has always been craft brewers. The ACS X2 allows us to greatly expand that focus.” Today Cask has placed over 700 of its machines in 44 countries around the world. STANDs 150 & 151 www.cask.com For more information visit: Come and speak to Chris & Sharon on the freerbutler stand - we’d love to see you! We’ll be on Stand 147 at BeerX 2017 32_Layout 1 13/02/2017 09:15 Page 1