Beer lovers know that there are two Budweiser brands in the world. Since 1907, Budweiser Budvar brewery in the Czech town of Budweiser and Anheesbush (beer brand: Budweiser) have been engaged in legal proceedings. The current legal result is that Budweiser can use the Budweiser brand globally but not the Czech Republic, Germany and Austria whose Budweiser brands belong to the Czech Republic. According to the European Court of Justice, the American beer group is not protected by the brand. In contrast, in the United States and Canada, Czech Budweiser is only sold under the "Czechvar" brand based on its brand protection.
The main brand is Budweiser Budvar Original Premium Lager
The Czech Budweiser Budvar Brewery is a 100 percent state-owned enterprise, founded in 1895 and currently employs more than 650 people. The brewery covers an area of about 120,000 square meters and is located next to the small town of Budweiser in South Bohemia. It is popular with tourists, especially the brewery which attracts beer lovers from all over the world. The factory receives about 60,000 visitors a year mainly due to the good reputation of the cellar beer and the classic traditional brewing process. The brewery's main brand is Budweiser Budvar Original Premium cellar which also produces bitter cellar ar 33, Budweiser Budvar stout as well as light and alcohol-free beer. Birgo Radle, divided into three flavors, was developed by Budweiser Budvar Brewery and Mattoni, a Czech Italian joint venture. In addition, a Bohemian Idols craft brewery was launched in partnership with a small brewery. In 2021, the total output is 180,000 liters, of which more than 100,000 liters were exported to many countries around the world with Germany alone reaching 45,000 liters.
The winery has two sets of 30,000 bottles per hour, a production line of 25,000 cans per hour, and a barrel line of 500 barrels per hour. For many years, the winery never used Krones filling equipment withbottle conveyor system, case conveyor system，pallet conveyor system until early 2020, when a whole line of krones recycling glass bottle line was launched with a capacity of 50,000 bottles per hour.
Because can beer is very suitable for remote markets, for example, many countries such as South Korea import only Budweiser beer packaged in cans. Due to travel restrictions caused by COVID-19, cans have also increased in the local market in the past two years. But the small can production line installed in 2012 produced only 7,000 thousand liters. The company is urgently needed to expand the can production capacity.
The whole line of Krones recycling glass bottle line which began production in early 2020
After a public tender, the plant installed a whole line of 50,000 cans per hour in 2020 and the equipment finally chose Krones. As a state-run brewery, we have to choose suppliers in strict accordance with the regulations. Krones provides the best conditions and the bestbottle conveyor system, case conveyor system layout, and has gained good experience when installing Krones recycling glass bottle filling line. We gave very positive comments on the service efficiency of Krones Czech employees and Krones ag, so we chose Krones equipment again. The new can equipment is arranged in the original bottle beer warehouse, and the whole space is divided into a grid of six meters by six meters by the column. This was a test for the Krones design team which had to be installed in a compact space through detailed planning. For example, the sterilizer is divided into five section shipments and installation and is placed precisely between the columns. In order to make the best use of the stacking height of the empty tank tray, the winery used the empty tank dismantling tray machine out of the high tank, in order to unload the tray at the high level, specially made a working platform. In addition, the equipment needs to be connected to a previous pallet, pallet conveyor system and storage system with 19,500 pallets in the warehouse. The new tank line using high tank Pressant Universal1A empty tank tray machine, Cantronic empty tank detection, Contiflow mixing machine, Modulfill VFS-C tank filling machine (including foam cleaning device) and Modulseam tank winding machine (two machines are installed in the isolation room), two Checkmat FM-X detection machine, two Linadry tank dryer (installed before and after the tank spray code respectively), LinaFlex Disinfection machine, Variopac Pro TFS disposable packaging machine, Modulpal Pro 2AC palletizing machine. The factory says the tunnel sterilizer is very important to extend their shelf life to 12 months. The original small can filling equipment is only equipped with one instantaneous killing equipment, which has been stopped. Now, only use this new potcan line. LinaFlex The sterilization machine can accurately adjust the sterilization unit according to the product and capacity.
The sterilization machine is divided into five sections for delivery and installation
The filling date or shelf life is marked by laser code. The line is the first easy can line in the Czech Republic to use laser jet code. To monitor the efficiency, the production line machine is connected to the SitePilot Line Diagnostics production line diagnostic system and the SitePilot Line Management order and material management system. The factory attaches great importance to the efficiency of the production line, hoping to accurately understand whether there are defects, whether there is a sufficient number of filling products, whether there are enough packaging materials, whether the filling date is printed clearly and so on. All these information can be obtained from the production line management system. Traceability is also very important for the brewery's management staff. To this end, the pallet is also equipped with an EAN code to accurately determine the location of the pallet in the high shelf warehouse. In addition, the winery also used the KLANX SitePilot Line Management material management system for the recycling glass bottle production line put into operation in 2020 and the results are very satisfactory. Based on these good experiences, the winery will implement the ERP system in the whole factory in the future. This equipment will mainly fill 500 ml cans, but can also fill 330,440 and 568 ml (pint tanks). The final results are 24 cans, some predivided into 22 and 26 units. When acceptance. The efficiency of the first test reached 97.68% and that of the second test reached 98.34% which is very excellent. All of the processes employed are of very high quality. After the installation, the equipment was immediately put into operation and some minor defects were all eliminated in the following two months. At present, the new can line operates in three shifts, working five days a week. Due to the higher efficiency and better performance of the new production line, wineries and operators no longer need weekend work which is also a positive factor that cannot be ignored. In 2021, the production of cans was nearly 50,000 liters. The factory has always used the traditional brewing process, the saccharification workshop is equipped with two saccharification lines, using copper vessels, two filter tank diameter of seven meters, unusual. The winery makes beer in the German pure method and uses only malt, hops, yeast and water. To be exact, only bomland area sswine, and whole original flowers. It is the only large brewery in the world that is still adding raw flowers because the utilization of this method is very low. The brewery uses a postripening period of more than 90 days, the temperature is about 2℃, and the cellar is hidden underground in the factory, very spacious. This has a very good impact on the taste, richness, and unique characteristics. How will the winery develop in the future?"One of our important tasks is to further expand the brewery capacity to 270,000 litres a year. In this regard, we have started to design the scheme to build a saccharification workshop equipped with three saccharification production lines. We will continue to use copper vessels, saccharification equipment is a capacity bottleneck, already 100 percent full capacity, perhaps because we have been expanding in recent years, but all focused on fermentation capacity and filling equipment. We have a higher goal of increasing capacity to 360,000 million
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