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The International Brewers & Bottlers Resource

• Brewpubs are one of the hottest trends in the hospitality industry with hundreds of new operations opening annually worldwide. ABT offers a full range of on-premise brewing systems ranging from our 3 barrel/4.5 hectoliter Tavern Brew system through to 15 barrel/17 hectoliter plants. Go to our Drink Profit Calculator to determine your profit per keg/half barrel. Click here to go to our brewery feasibility questionnaire.

• Microbreweries are modern state-of-the-art small-scale breweries that can service profitable market niches or isolated local markets. ABT installs and services them worldwide. Click here to go to our brewery feasibility questionnaire.

• Bottling Plants, both new and used, can be integrated with our larger breweries or operated independently to bottle water and soft drinks. ABT also offers access to reasonably-priced soft drink flavor concentrates and possible overseas franchise rights for American branded soft drinks. Click here to go to our bottling plant feasibility questionnaire.

• PET Bottle Production Plants for water, soft drinks and even beer can be the answer for bottlers who have difficulties obtaining secure supplies of PET bottles. ABT offers reasonably priced moderate-scale equipment for both pre-form production and blow molding of PET beverage bottles.

• Plant liquidations and used equipment. In addition to building breweries, soft drink and water bottling plants we sometimes acquire or are asked by clients to sell off surplus equipment and plants. If you are looking for good quality equipment at reasonable prices please review our current inventory by clicking here.

• Boilers for breweries and beverage plants are not all alike. Our line of brewery boilers are especially designed by our main boiler man, Tony "My Life Is Combustion" Ranallo, for simultaneous multi-vessel use. Plus they include our exclusive "Hot Water On Demand" feature to give brewers and bottlers amazing amounts of hot water for cleaning and kegging whenever it's needed.

• Grain Handling Systems should convey grist, not grind it. Yet most small-scale systems produce unacceptable amounts of flour which retard lautering rates and alter the taste of the beer. Dale the Grain Guy and his crew of grain-handling gurus from Iowa (Where else?) have designed systems for ABT that deliver grist with exactly the grind specifications that the brewer requires.

• Glycol Cooling Systems are a challenge to properly design. But "B.T.U." Bob, our resident cooling system genius, has designed a unique set-up that eliminates the need for multiple compressors in a brewpub. One unit will service both the brewery and restaurant at a substantial cost savings over a conventional multi-compressor system. You can even make the weather work for you and save even more money on the electric bill.

• Consulting Services are available for discrete help in either the start-up and design phase of your project or to deal, quickly and efficiently, with unexpected problems or unmet promises from other suppliers. ABT specializes in cleaning up other peoples' mistakes. We can also research and develop new beverage and beer formulations, design your plant or brewpub or even write your business plan.

• Brewers Resources are a free collection of very useful charts, graphs and forms that cover a number of brewery and beverage plant production procedures. Want to know what the proper B.O.D. for effluent discharge in your brewery should be? How about the correct strike water temperature for your mash tun? It's all here, and it's free!

• About ABT shows that we've been in the business since the very beginning of the modern small-scale brewing industry. We know what works, and what doesn't. Let us put our expertise to work for you.

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