Howdy all, A crazy farmer decided to start up a hop farm near my shop. That's not too unusual, another farmer around the corner from me is growing 10 acres of legal hemp for the fiber and CBD market. Love…
JohnJuly 2, 2018
As most of you know, brewery wastewater stinks. The short story is there are nutrients in wastewater, but usually insufficient oxygen to allow aerobic bacteria to grow. So a different type of bacteria thrives, called sulfate reducing bacteria. These bacteria…
JohnApril 2, 2018
Howdy folks, The talk I gave at this years CBC can be found here. This was a 1 hour talk on the basics of brewery wastewater. Attendance at this talk was very good, maybe 300 people in the audience? Good…
JohnApril 16, 2017
When I design a system, I don't include risers on top of my tanks. What's a riser? The green things in the image above. You can see the concrete tanks are buried, and where the surface of the ground will…
JohnFebruary 14, 2017
Here is a bit of a canned post about the upcoming 2017 CBC in Washington, DC. I will be speaking there again this year, 50 minutes- all on the topic of brewery wastewater. Hold on you your hats, it'll be…
JohnFebruary 7, 2017
Let the data speak for itself. The graph above is actual BOD data from a craft brewery client of mine in Canada, before and after side streaming. As most of you know who read this website, you know that I…
JohnAugust 25, 2016
Here are two recent wastewater articles for breweries that you may find helpful. The first is written by David Edmunds, a law school student at George Washington University Law School and craft beer fan. David did a ton of research…
JohnJuly 12, 2016
Passivation is an important part of CIP, sanitation, and efficiency in your brewery. At the end of the day, you wind up with a thin layer of chromium oxide on the surface of your vessels, which strengthens the steel, makes…
JohnJune 2, 2016
More and more around the world, you are hearing of various wastewater reuse schemes. It's happening more often than you think in more ways than you'd imagine. Admittedly I am not a wastewater reuse expert, but what follows is a…
JohnMay 11, 2016