Rocky Ridge Brewery
The Coates family in Busselton WA, Colin and Hamish Coates have been a dairy farm operation for 3 generations. When you go to their property it is a great surprise to find the option signage left to the dairy or right to the Brewery and for a young entrepreneur Hamish, Head brewer is setting a crack pass with new business.
The Client
The Problem
Rocky Ridge Brewery, WA specialise in brewing quality craft beer, but had set backs with inefficient, impractical pre-existing mill design and structure and manual handling operation.
Brew house was plumbed almost ready to go but no way of getting malted barley into imported mill to grist case and could not be determined without bringing in Eastern States/Overseas installers.
The Solution
The modified design together with the additional equipment enables the Brewer better management to adjust Milling speeds and flow rates, and has eliminated a large amount of operator manual lifting and OHS risks.
The Outcome
Rocky Ridge Brewery can now source through his own grown or locally sourced malt producers and mill at a varied product to produce desired density flavours and variety of quality craft beers.
The business philosophy of natural farming process of grain, growing hops and using rain water to make big beers is the secret
Client Experience with AFS
“Yes, definitely! On a daily basis the mill now configured saves us having to manually mash in – both an operator efficiency and an OHS saving – less wear on the brewer!!”
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