Six years ago we gave our brewery a major, $25 million upgrade. Boulevard Brewing Company’s Unfiltered Wheat Beer and Pale Ale were already among the most popular craft beers in the Midwest, but we had outgrown our 1950s-era facility where we could only brew 35 barrels at a time. So, we expanded to a state-of-the-art brewhouse with a sky-lit-atrium, a glass skywalk, and the capacity to brew 150 barrels of beer in one batch. We extended our product line to 26 premium brews, which made us the largest craft brewery in the Midwest.
The problem was, we kept our old-school technology. At least once every couple of years, we’d lose power due to a storm or other weather problem. Every time that happened, our two workstations went down, and we’d lose all of our real-time brewing data. Sometimes the power was out only for a few minutes, but we’d still need to scrap all of the beer, because we had lost track of where the materials were in the brewing process. It was a huge waste -- thousands of dollars in ingredients lost.
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Author: Tony Lux
