Customer: Stone Brewing
Location: Richmond, USA
Installation: 144-160 kegs/h, double Chunnel 422
Year Completed: 2016

The first beer made at Stone Brewing Co.’s new brewery in Richmond soon will be flowing through taps around the region. Kegs started rolling off the production line at Stone Brewing’s 220,000-square-foot plant in the Fulton neighborhood east of downtown Richmond. “It’s a big day for us,” said Peter Wiens, Stone Brewing’s director of East Coast brewing operations, as he watched the first 20 kegs of beer proceed through the kegging line inside the plant. The brewery’s kegging line, an enormous piece of machinery made by Lambrechts, can fill about 140 kegs per hour. Each keg holds 15.5 gallons of beer. At the end of the kegging line, a large robotic arm that Stone employees have lovingly named “Travis” lifts each keg and places it on a pallet for shipping.

_Richmond Area Business News_08.07.2016

Customer: Meantime Brewing Company
Location: London, UK
Installation: 80 kegs/h, Monobloc 80 4-2
Year Completed: 2016

Meantime Brewery was founded by Alistair Hook in 2000. Starting from scratch, Meantime can be considered to be one of the most important breweries in downtown London today. Lambrechts is proud to have installed a fully equipped Monobloc 80 in the London Area. The robot handles up to 7.000 pints of beer an hour, in 30 and 50 ltr kegs.

Customer: Dogfish Head Brewery
Location: Milton, USA
Installation: 144-160 kegs/h, double Chunnel 422
Year Completed: 2016

A tailor-made keg line for an off-centered brewery
As you know, we had a unique application with our keg line being more than 500 meters from our bright beer cellar. This posed some big challenges during the start-up. The Lambrechts commissioning team on site did a really nice job working through the challenges to finally get to the performance guaranteed by Lambrechts. The installation team was also quite knowledgeable and did a really nice job getting the line installed.

_Mike Frank_Project Engineer_Dogfish Head

Customer: Arcadia Brewing
Location: Michigan, USA
Installation: 60–70 kegs/h, Monobloc Slimline 3-1
Year Completed: 2016

I can’t think of a single piece of equipment in any brewery that takes a greater beating than the kegging line. The robust construction and ease of operation of our Lambrechts line makes operator training easy and minimizes down time. Lambrechts has routinely applied feedback from Rotech test keg audits, which assures us of the quality and consistency of our keg cleaning and sterilization. Lambrechts commitment to using off-the-shelf parts has made procuring spare parts quick and inexpensive, while their support and documentation are second-to-none. There’s no doubt that the Slimline Monobloc was the right machine for our brewery.

_Dave Sippel_Director of Brewing Operations
_Arcadia Brewing

Customer: Huyghe Brewery
Location: Melle, Belgium
Installation: 240 kegs/h, 3 Monoblocs 80 4-2
Year Completed: 2016

Huyghe, the brewery which carries the pink elephant ‘Delirium” in its banner, goes green. The new 240 kegs/h small footprint kegline is, apart from energy friendly, also very flexible to handle their large variety of kegs (28 types!). The 3 independent production cells, each with an “all in one” compact Monobloc 80 washer/filler and a 6-axis robot, are designed for handling, labelling and capping. In combination with a linear transfer shuttle for a common in- and outfeed of the pallets, it is possible to run in a flexible way, 3 different keg packagings at the same time.

Customer: Wye Valley Brewery
Location: Bromyard, UK
Installation: 35 kegs/h, Compact 235 2 tanks
Year Completed: 2016

With its rugged construction complete with 316 titanium process heads and all stainless steel service valves, the Compact 235 is built to last. As a consequence, the machines retain much of their value having a working life of twenty years. As craft brewers expand their production, their existing machines can be exchanged for higher throughput or more automated machines directly through Lambrechts. Delivered and installed to schedule, the head brewer Gareth Bateman was well pleased with the investment and choice of supplier.

Customer: Coppertail Brewing
Location: Tampa, USA
Installation: 35 kegs/h, Compact 235 2 tanks
Year Completed: 2016

“Tampa is the heart of Florida’s craft beer movement with over 60 breweries in the area and craft beer giant Cigar City Brewing Company at the helm. Knowing that Tampa had one of the most mature beer markets in Florida, president Kent Bailey of the Coppertail Brewing Company chose to open his brewery at the edge of the city’s most famous neighborhood.” It’s a place where classic beer styles and time-honored brewing techniques mix with rogue experimentation and radical ingredients. This is Coppertail Brewing Company.

_Brewer’s Magazine_June 2015

Customer: Sambrook’s Brewery
Location: London UK
Installation: 35 kegs/h, Compact 235 2 tanks
Year Completed: 2016

Uncompromising in brewing quality cask, bottle and keg beer at their brewery in Battersea, since 2008. Using traditional brewing techniques alongside carefully selected ingredients, which their brewers blend to create exceptionally tasting, British beers.

Customer: Harvey’s Brewery
Location: Lewes UK
Installation: Compact 235
Year Completed: 2016

Another well-known UK brewer Miles Jenner joint MD at Harveys in Lewes also chose a Lambrechts machine, in this case the Compact 235 when deciding on upgrading their kegging. Established in 1790 with Miles have been head brewer for over thirty years it is no coincidence that both of these vastly experienced brewers chose family owned Lambrechts as a partner.

Customer: Martens Brewery
Location: Bocholt, Belgium
Kegs per hour: 60-80 kegs/h, Monobloc 80 4-1
Year Completed: 2016

Martens Brewery, a family-run company with a brewing tradition for over 255 years! As well as brewing and kegging a variety of its own brands, the brewery also acts as a major contract brewer. As a consequence they have multiple small production runs with different packaging styles. This was one of the reasons for choosing the automated but still flexible kegging line from Lambrechts with fully programmable robots.