Thesis (B.A.)--University of Wisconsin -- La Crosse, 2009. / Also available online. Includes bibliographical references (p. 17-22).

Thesis (Ph.D.) -- University of Adelaide, School of Agriculture & Wine, Faculty of Sciences, 2005. / "November, 2004" Bibliography: leaves 209-226.

Thesis (doctoral)--University of Helsinki, 2009. / Includes bibliographical references. Also available on the World Wide Web.

The main subjekt of this master’s thesis is the description of the processes of production of beer in a cold block, describing the theory of sanitation and theory of CIP cleaning station. The second part of this work is practical proposal of CIP cleaning station, selecting anappropriate heat exchanger, its design and economic evaluation of the proposed CIP station.

Craft brewing has seen a remarkable growth, from the first steps in the late 1960s in the USA until today. Breweries in the USA and Western Europe saw a long period of brewery fusions, concentration and closings from after the 2nd world war until roughly late 1990s/early 2000s. This trend also affected Sweden, where a market with smaller breweries in almost every town or municipality ended up in a situation with a dominating giant. The emerging craft breweries have totally changed this picture. Previous research has shown that craft brewing often starts as a hobby and evolves over time to a commercial business. The process for how these breweries fund themselves at the time of establishment has been researched in several papers, but how breweries that get past the initial step, start to grow and need additional capital to remove some of the bottlenecks that occur is considerably less examined. Since craft brewing is a unique business and the research in Sweden is scarce, theories and practises from small and medium enterprise (SME) financing have been applied. By using semi‐structured interviews and a thematical analysis, six craft beer brewery representatives were interviewed about their own perceptions of the methods they chose to overcome their financial obstacles, both initially but also when experiencing growth and needs for expansion. The breweries were chosen from a combination of size and geographical position in Sweden. Some of the breweries are situated in rural and some in urban areas. All the breweries fulfil certain financial criteria, and experienced production bottlenecks that needed to be solved financially. The thesis arrives at the conclusion that each microbrewery had its unique set of circumstances. The chosen financial solutions were affected by the owner’s perceptions and previous experiences. This supports previous research where new business establishment is highly depending upon the owner or the owner’s own money, which can partly also be explained by how the owners initially looked at their business (hobby/part hobby versus the intention to immediately start a commercial business). Raising capital for further expansion gives a diversified picture meaning that classical financing theory is only partially applicable on the craft brewing industry.

This diploma thesis deals with brewing and malting as a way of livelihood of ecclesiastical and secular goods in the territory of the Czech kingdom. This work is also aimed at showing our traditional and national beverage as an important part of our culture and tradition. It wants to introduce beer not only as an alcoholic beverage, but mainly as a business article. Its production and trading with it has been a source of high income not only in the treasuries of cities and nobility, but also in the treasuries of the church. As an example of the Church Brewery, the Conventional Brewery was chosen in Vyšší Brod. The first chapter of the work attempts to show the history of beer brewing closer. The thesis does not aim to describe the history of beer production, but to focus on the first references to it and the production methods used from the oldest cultures, such as Mesopotamian, Babylonian or Egyptian, to our closest Slavonic culture. Another chapter tries to map the production of beer and the struggle for it on the territory of the Czech Crown in the period of its rise, prosperity and mild decline in the middle of the seventeenth century. The last chapter is focused on the Conventional Brewery in Vyšší Brod, which was chosen as a characteristic example for the selected theme and above all as a monument...

Consacrée à la céramique de l’habitat d’Acy-Romance et, plus largement, à la céramique rème en Champagne, cette thèse comporte un premier volet dédié à l’analyse chronologique du corpus du village des IIe-Ier s. avant J.-C. En s’appuyant sur un classement technique et morphologique et sur une sériation des données, la perception de l’évolution a pu être affinée en relation avec le contexte social et culturel. Le second volet est dédié à l’approche fonctionnelle qui constitue l’objectif majeur. L’analyse est étendue à des ensembles de fouilles préventives d’habitats dans la vallée de la Vesle afin d’élargir la perspective. Le croisement de familles fonctionnelles, définies à partir de l’analyse interne, et des traces d’altération observées de manière systématique apporte de nouveaux arguments et pistes concernant l’utilisation des céramiques. Des correspondances dans la représentation des traces sur les grands contenants et les vases fermés amènent, avec d’autres arguments, à reconsidérer les interprétations pour l’attaque des parois intérieures et débouchent sur la reconnaissance de grandes céramiques probablement destinées à la préparation de la bière au cours de l’âge du Fer. En outre, l’étude de dépôts calcaires à l’intérieur d’ustensiles à large(s) perforation(s) conduit à proposer une interprétation comme entonnoirs pour fabriquer de l’eau de chaux. Une réflexion sur les emplois potentiels de ce produit s’accompagne d’un nouvel éclairage sur la production de la chaux dont tout indique qu’elle a pu jouer un rôle considérable au second âge du fer et s’accompagner de la colonisation de territoires où la ressource adaptée à sa fabrication était directement accessible. / This thesis focuses on pottery from the Iron Age settlement of Acy-Romance and more generally on pottery used by the Remi people of the Champagne area between 300 BC and 30 BC. A chronological approach, based on the definition of recurrent assemblage facies using statistical analysis and detailing the evolution of the pottery in Acy-Romance in relation to cultural and social contexts constitutes the first part of this work. The second part deals with the function of pottery based on new data from rescue excavations from the TGV project in the Vesle valley near to Reims, which has been included to significantly broaden the analysis. The vessel type and the functional relationship between vessels – as defined by measurable properties such as shape, volume and fabric, and surface alteration provide new arguments concerning their actual use. A similar type of surface attrition is observed on large containers and on fineware used to store and serve liquids. Including references such as ethnographic comparisons, it is proposed that some of the larger vessels were used for beer-brewing. Moreover, the study of a white mineral deposit regularly observed in “perforated pots” with large perforations has led to the hypothesis that they were used as funnels (with a cloth filter) to obtain a clear limewater solution. A discussion on the potential uses of lime underlines the role played by its production during the late Iron Age, as well as identifying specific production sites. The development of this production is probably one of the contributing factors of Celtic settlement on land where materials mainly composed of calcium carbonate such as chalk or limestone were easily accessible.

This diploma thesis deals with producing and using low temperatures in home brewing processes. The introductory part describes technological process of brewing beer, followed by a design of a primary fermentation vessel and next an aging vessel. In the next step a suitable wort chiller is designed. All the equipment is designed to be able to run on batteries or a solar photovoltaic panel.