Word: beers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...automation is taking to drink. See WORLD BUSINESS, Automatic Beer...
...centuries brewers have made their beer by the same ancient process, boiling it in towering copper kettles and fermenting it in vats, batch by cumbersome batch. Now automation has finally caught up with beer. Last week technicians for Canadian Breweries Ltd. worked at taking the last kinks out of a new, fully automated $8,000,000 plant at Fort Worth, Texas, where beer will be made within two months by a radical technology. Brewers have considered the method for years and other firms are testing it, but Canadian Breweries will be the first to use it in beer production...
Called continuous-flow brewing and developed after six years of research, the new method does away with the old kettles and the old process. Instead, the ingredients of beer-grain, water, hops and yeast-run through a maze of stainless-steel pipes, coils and tanks in response to commands from a 30-ft. console of dials, buttons and lights. Though the brewing time remains the same-six weeks-the new plant costs less to build, requires less labor than traditional plants, can expand in small stages...
...also a blessed place to stash the younger members of the family with kindly attendants while you fortify yourself with Danish beer at the bar or food at the nearby restaurant...
...hours the population rises to 40,000. Yet in the last few months, culture-shy Emeryville has become the nation's center of "derelict sculpture." A branch of "found art," derelict sculptures are built on Emeryville's bay-side mud flats from driftwood, discarded tires, broken toys, beer cans, jugs and other rubbish - treasures of pop art, and readily come by because a high proportion of bay debris washes up there. The artists are amateurs, art students or real pros. Singly or in expeditions, they come clad in jeans and bikinis and armed with tools, nails and beer...