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august 2016

Christian De Brackeleire

Chief Executive Officer

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Easily increase the capacity of your Meura2001! p 2

Dashen Brewery p 4

Dear Readers, With this 24th MEURA Newsletter it is with great pleasure and particular pride that we are offering you an opportunity to discover the success story of the Dashen Brewery S.C. Ltd in Ethiopia, the first Brewery in Africa equipped with a MEURABREW, MEURA’s continuous Brewhouse. We also have the pleasure to present the second Brewhouse renova-tion at the Brasserie Champigneulles, the oldest brewery still in activity in France and part of the Frankfurter Group since 2006. This project once again give evi-dence of the strong partnership between MEURA and its customers as well. An easy increase of the capacity of the MEURA 2001 mash filters is also presented that allows an increase of the installed production capacity by about 300 000 hl beer per year and this without any modification in the civil works around the filter. Finally , MEURA recently took part in several different events. Whether it be through fairs, conferences or semi-nars, MEURA try to be present everywhere in the brewing world to promote its state-of-the-art technologies. Keep one length ahead with MEURA’s technologies! We wish you all pleasant reading and look forward to seeing you soon,

Brasserie Champigneulles p 6

Current News p 8

3D animations now available on www.meura.com!

Easily increase the capacity of your Meura2001!

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The Meura2001 is recognised throughout the world because this technology can simultaneously achieve

• laboratory yield at 14 brews/day

• with a bright wort

• and last but not least while producing high gravity wort. High gravity brewing is a common practice for most lager brewers, but is starting to become a global brewing standard.

It provides a better occupation of the fermentation capacity and improves the final beer regularity by blending exactly to the desired density.

As a consequence Meura is facing more and more requests by brewers equipped with a Meura2001 brewhouse to sup-port them towards high gravity brewing. As opportunities to increase the throw (malt load) in an existing brewhouse are limited, increasing gravity often means reducing the cold

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wort volume. Altough the ideal would be to increase gravity while maintaining the same cold wort volume for a brew.

A Meura2001 can be extended by installing longer side beams and adding chambers, but such modification often requires challenging modifications to the civil works and spent grains hopper and leads to a major brewhouse shut-down to perform the work.

As an alternative, Meura developed the “modified rear caisson” for the Meura2001. By installing this rear caisson, 8 additional chambers can be added while keeping the load on the same position of the original civil works. The further

modification takes just a few days. With 8 extra chambers the load (=malt throw) can be increased by nominal 700 kg (maximal 770 kg) malt or malt equivalent. Calculated to a beer density of 12°P, it represents a capacity increase to brew 25,000 hl beer per month (300,000 hl installed capacity per year)! Most of our customers installing a modified rear caisson are keeping the cold wort volume and increasing the wort density. It means that investments for additional fermenters are not required.

The modified rear caisson: a low cost solution to quickly increase the capacity of your brewhouse!

Dashen Brewery is brewing… continuously!

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With an increase in beer consumption of about 20% per year over the last decade, Ethiopia is Africa’s fastest growing beer market and attracts lots of brewing groups making strong investments. The good news is that… most of them are installing Meura equipment and today we are proud to have 9 Meura2001 running in Ethiopia!

Meura’s latest project is a Meurabrew, Meura’s continuous brewhouse in Dashen Brewery S.C. Ltd in Debre Birhan.

Dashen Brewery S.C. Ltd already owns a first brewery in the city of Gondar with a capacity of 900,000 hl beer/year. The beer produced is the Dashen beer, a pale lager of 4.8%, increasingly enjoyed throughout the country!

To meet the ever-growing demand the company decided to build a brand new second factory in Debre Birhan town, selected mainly for its proximity to Addis Abeba, Ethiopia’s capital.

Having approached various suppliers for this project, the brewery decided to completely rely on Meura and trusted our most advanced technology by opting for the Meurabrew, Meura’s continuous Brewhouse.

This conceptual brewhouse is a collection of all Meura’s state-of-the-art technologies working together on a contin-uous basis, providing numerous exceptional performance features such as:

• Very low consumption of water, electricity and steam

• Considerable reduction of waste water

• No peak load in utilities

• Better productivity (one CIP per week)

• Drastic reduction in oxidation of mash and wort

• Very limited extract losses

• …

Douglas NiChoLLS, Technical Consultant in the Dashen-Meura project

Why did you opt for a Meurabrew, Meura’s continuous Brewhouse, for the Dashen project?

Thanks to the Meurabrew the energy and water consump-tion of Dashen Brewery are much lower than a batch brewhouse and the extraction efficiency of raw materials is equal to the best batch brewhouses!

Operating costs are therefore excellent as well as being geared to large batch sizes!

Generally the new Dashen continuous brewhouse is deliv-ering the expected performance and wort quality is good.

“Ethiopia is now home to the most advanced brewery in Africa”Devlin Hainsworth, CEO of Dashen Breweries

5th Meurabrew for SABMiller Columbia

After Belgium, China, Ethiopia and Ireland, Meura recently completed the fifth Meurabrew project in Colombia, with the Cerveceria del Valle Brewery in Cali. A time laps video was shot during the building of this new brewery.

Just sCAn thIs QR CodE to VIEw It! EnJoy!

Dashen Brewery is brewing… continuously!

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Since October 2015 Dashen Debre Birhan’s brewhouse has been producing 240 hl/h of wort… continuously! The pro-duction capacity is 2 million hectolitres beer per year with the opportunity to further expand to 3 million hectolitres.The Dashen Brewery S.C. is now the largest and most tech-nological brewery in Ethiopia!

Meura again selected for the second Brewhouse renovation at the Brasserie Champigneulles!

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In 2012 the Brasserie Champigneulles (France) decided to replace its lauter tun with Meura2001 technology (includ-ing hammer mills and Mechamasher). Since then, their large brewhouse that produces brews between 900 and 1200 hl cold wort, is running on a dou-ble Meura2001 which can take a malt load of 20 up to 26 tons. It allowed the brewery to continue producing quality beer while maintaining the highest cost efficiency.

The project was a great success and the brewery was delighted with its new installations which exceeded their expectations by far.

SECoND BrEwhouSE upDatE…Before the new renovation phase, the brewhouse at Brasserie Champigneulles (Frankfurter Group) was equipped with

one mash tun and one adjunct cooker. Both vessels were not performing very well and limiting the brewhouse capac-ity to 10-11 brews/day.

Brasserie Champigneulles relied on Meura again and ordered the revamp-ing of the existing mash tun and the adjunct copper, as well as a brand new mash tun in August 2015. The renova-tion of the existing vessel consisted of a new bottom part with double jackets including new agitators.

The mash tuns have a useful capacity to heat up 890hl mash net while the

adjunct cooker has a useful capacity of 300hl mash net. The mash tuns, with a diameter of 5.7m are the biggest ever made in the Meura workshop.

This new order once again demon-strates the reliable partnerships Meura builds up with its customers.

Today, with its state-of-the-art Meura equipement, the Brasserie Champigneulles, known as the oldest brewery in France, unde-niably is also one of the most modern ones!

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Brau Beviale, Germany 10-12 novemberIn November 2015 Meura exhibited at Brau Beviale, the best international trade fair in the brewing world! After 4 years of good services Meura invested in a brand new stand to ensure all our visitors can have interesting meetings in an even more friendly and cosy atmosphere. New con-tacts were made in those 3 days, but we also enjoyed nice friendly visits by some of our satisfied customers. All this accompa-nied by a glass of Belgian beer, of course!

iBD Sydney, Australia 14-18 MarchThe IBD Asia Pacific Section organised its congress in Sydney, Australia this year.

Jeroen Vandenbussche, Chief Commercial Officer and Amol Gangele went to Sydney to exhibit at the IBD. Recently hired, it was Amol’s first Meura event. Amol will reinforce Meura’s Sales Team for the Asia-Pacific region.

Trends in Brewing, Belgium 3-7 April

O r g a n i s e d i n Belgium by the KULeuven University

and its brewing section in particular, this scientific event meets with growing success with its ever increasing quality of content. For this 12th edition Meura exhibited together with the other BBTT members and could liaise with lots of brewers from Belgium and abroad.

Craft Brewers Conference, USA3-7 MayThe Craft Brewers Conference is THE place to be, where craft brewers and suppliers sharing their experience and know-how congregate under one roof! The 2016 edition took place in Philadelphia where Meura ex-hibited a real Meura2001 micro, the famous Meura2001 mash filter specially developed as a craft version for the smaller brewers!

3D animation of Meura equipment!To demonstrate the operation of our state-of-the-art equipment more accurately, we have made some 3D ani-mations of some of them. Discover all our videos on our Youtube channel. All you need to do is scan this QR code! Enjoy!

UpCoMiNG EvENTSWorld Brewing Congress uSa 13-17 August, Denver

VLB Symposium – Chili 26-28 September, Santiago de Chile

Brau Beviale 2016 – germany 8-10 November, Nuremberg