Diageo Ireland takes charge of giant new brewing vessels
Diageo Ireland recently took delivery of the first of 10 giant new brewing vessels, underscoring Diageo’s commitment to the future of brewing at St James Gate and representing a major vote of confidence in its Irish brewing operation, the company stated.
Print22 February 2013
The enormous brewing vessels — up to 85ft in length and weighing up to 28 tonnes each — arrived in Dun Laoghaire Harbour on Sunday evening after being shipped from Menen in Belgium via Rotterdam.
Once erected, the largest of the vessels, standing almost 10 storeys high, will be capable of holding just under one million pints at a single time.
The arrival of the vessels forms part of the €153 million expansion and re-development of St James’s Gate Brewery. Construction on the project started in early Summer last year and the plant will start producing beer this June.
The brewing vessels will be unloaded by crane at the pier in Dun Laoghaire Harbour and will remain there until they’re transported in convoy towards St James Gate in the early hours of Wednesday 27th February when traffic is lightest.
This was the first of three such deliveries of 27 brewing vessels which are to take place over the remainder of February and early March. At its full length the convoy from Dun Laoghaire Harbour to St James Gate will measure about 300 metres and will move at an average speed of 4–6km per hour.
“The arrival of these vessels symbolises that the long-term future of brewing in the heart of Dublin is secure for the next generation,” stressed Paul Armstrong, Supply Chain Director at Diageo Europe Beer Supply, who’s leading the project, “The new vessels will be partly responsible for brewing 40,000,000 pints of stout and beer each week, most of which will be exported to markets across the world. The scale and size of the vessels underscores the role that Diageo plays in the Irish economy in terms of employment, exports, agriculture and tourism.”
The new brewery will be the first of its kind on the island of Ireland and will use state-of-the-art plant and processes to minimise energy consumption and greatly reduce environmental impact. It will save an Olympic swimming pool of water every 30 hours and will save enough energy each year to power 1,200 Irish households.
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