With Cloudwater brewery reporting they have losses of up to 39% just in the fermentation and dry hopping here's some figures for big breweries:
Key Performance Indicator
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Best in Class
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Output per employee per year (hl/man hr/ yr)
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15,000 – 22,000
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Brewing productivity (hl/ mar hr)
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40-50
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Packaging efficiency %
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90-98
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NR bottle productivity (hl/man hr)
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20-25
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Refillable bottle productivity (hl/ man hr)
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10
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Materials usage efficiency (brewing extract) %
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97-99
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Total extract loss across plant %
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4 to 5
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Liquid losses %
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2 to 4
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Packaging materials losses %
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0.5-1.5
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Return on capital %
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15-25
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Capacity utilisation %
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Over 90
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BOD in wastewater (mg/ hl)
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1 to 1.5
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Water usage/ unit production
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2.5 to 4
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Energy (steam) usage (MJ/ hl)
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5 to 6.5
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Electricity usage (kWh/ hl)
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70-150
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Greenfield cost/ unit of capacity ($/ hl)
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40-70
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Conformance to plan/ product specs %
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100!
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Customer complaints %
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Zero!
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Safety (lost time frequency)
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Zero!
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From The Brewer and Distiller International Vol 4, Issue 7, July 2008, p21
Wouldn't be surprised if the new variations of mash filters now produce 99-102% extracts.
ReplyDeleteI'm sure I've heard of 104%...
DeleteYou mean breweries like Cloudwater are wasting materials and incurring extra costs, then trying to pass them on to the buying public? I thought competition in a capitalist market was supposed to sort out that sort of malarkey.
ReplyDeleteIf you use materials efficiently to produce output, you are gonna get a decent yield. That's an industrial process. Boring.
ReplyDeleteIf you play with hops and experiment you're gonna have to pour a lot of undrinkable pish away. But that's craft! That's what we want. That's how an economy should work. I want to pay for entitled posh beardie man children to not have to ever get a proper job. I want them to sell out to Coors for millions, laters.
I'm bored with my reliable mass produced car. It always runs, never breaks down. Boring.
I'm off to buy a craft car. Hand built by a guy that like to play with metal and petrol.
Cookie's right of course. When we've got *enough* money, that's exactly the kind of car some of us like to buy. Brilliant!
ReplyDeletePhil's wrong of course, "breweries like Cloudwater" aren't "wasting materials" - they're *using* more. That's how come it's so tasty. Brilliant!
... and of course, more "Output per employee" = more unemployment = more time to drink beer! Brilliant!
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