Siren Craft Brew - bottling line

Siren Craft Brew - bottling line

Siren Craft Brew - bottling line 1

'We chose Vigo as they have a great reputation in the brewing industry, not only for only supplying the best quality equipment but also to put their money where their mouth is in terms of service and backup.'

Darron Anley, Siren Craft Brew

Siren Craft Brew - bottling line 2

Case Study Overview

Siren Craft Brew in Reading are SIBA Craft Beer Award winners. Founder Darron Anley's aims were ...

  • To bring bottling in-house
     
  • Automatic bottling
     
  • 1500 bottles per hour
     
  • Minimise oxygen pick-up

We supplied, installed and commissioned a CIMEC America DPS 12/12/1C automatic rinsing, filling & crown capping machine and an S3T6/RI automatic in-line labelling machine.

SIBA Craft Beer award winners, Siren Craft Brew, was founded by Darron Anley. The brewery is based in 3 industrial units in Finchampstead, near Reading.

Brewing began using their 35 bbls brewhouse and they soon expanded their premises to two units to enable them to experiment with barrel aging. Further expansion was required in and a third unit was acquired to facilitate this. To complete the brewery, Siren Craft Brew started work on a new Tap Room with a party on International IPA day.

From a breakfast stout made using an Ethiopian coffee called Negelle Gorbitu supplied by artisan coffee roasters Origin to a citrusy Lemoncello IPA, Siren's brews are ideal for those who love to be challenged. Their red IPA, Liquid Mistress, was awarded Gold in the SIBA South Region Craft Beer in Keg Competition.

The aim of Siren’s expansion project was to increase their capacity by nearly 80% to 90,000 pints per month. The objective throughout was to uphold their high standards of production.

Siren’s bottling had either been outsourced or hand bottled. As a result, they felt that the ‘[product] quality had suffered during this time’.

As part of the expansion project, Darron approached us with a requirement for a bottling line which would not only enable them to bottle in-house at a rate of 1500 bottles per hour, but would also to minimise oxygen pick up ‘in order to increase shelf life and [the] fresh taste for a lot longer’. An in-line labelling machine was also required to apply clear front, back and neck labels to the bottles.

To meet their requirement , Vigo supplied bottling line, consisting of a CIMEC America DPS 12/12/1C automatic rinsing, filling & crown capping machine to fill at a rate of 2000 bottles per hour, and an S3T6/RI automatic in-line labelling machine and all associated conveyoring. The line was installed and commissioned by Vigo’s multi-skilled team of engineers.

Feedback

'We chose Vigo as they have a great reputation in the brewing industry, not only for only supplying the best quality equipment but also to put their money where their mouth is in terms of service and backup. We didn’t want to buy a patchwork set of equipment that we would be constantly troubleshooting with various manufacturers as to whose bit of kit the problem resided with.

The filling line has lived up to expectations and does a great job. It is reliable and has given us a huge improvement in dissolved oxygen levels.

The demand of our bottle product has continued to rise and rise. Quite frankly without this investment we would never have been able to keep up, but the real benefit has been the overall improvement in the quality of our product going out to customers.'

Darron Anley, Siren Craft Brew

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