Years of Experience at Ankerbräu Nördlingen
At Ankerbräu in Nördlingen (Bavaria) the development of the beer-in-box
system and the related technology took place. Ankerbräu uses the concept to increase their beer sales in the long distance and export business segment since 2009.
At the end of 2014 Florian Koch, the former Ankerbrau manager quit the brewery job and since this time is fully focused on the Carbotek business and technology development.
The Ankerbräu brewhouse. www.ankerbrauerei.de
It all started in the hot summer of 2003. Ankerbräu in Nördlingen run out of kegs due to a high seasonal peak demand for its keg beers. In the subsequent analysis and discussion it became clear, how costly it is to purchase kegs to cover a seasonal peak demand only.
So the management team of Ankerbräu (Senior Wolfgang Koch, Junior Florian Koch and brewmaster Georg Fischer) started to look for alternatives and gave birth to the idea to develop a cost-effective disposable system for the keg and draft beer segment. It should become a long journey...
The development history of beer-in-box
2003 | Idea (Trigger: Keg shortage during hot summer) |
2004 | First trials with postmix carbonation systems. |
2006 | Development of first Carbonator prototype. Purchase of Bag-In-Box filler. |
2007.04 | Second Carbonator generation, small series, regional field tests. |
2007 | Development of degassing equipment, improvements of Carbonator. |
2008.04 | Third Carbonator generation |
2009.05 | Reference project: „mein Schiff“ by RCCL/TUI Cruises, first cruise ship installation |
2010.03 | Start of fourth Carbonator generation: Simple, robust, reliable, hygienic |
2011.05 | Second TUI cruise ship starts operation with BIB on board. |
2012.06 | Launch of new bag generation with improved oxygen barrier and outstanding hygienic design of connection system. |
2013.12 | Supply of Customers with 1000l IBC bags at Winter Wonderland London. |
2014.05 | Installation of 27 taps at “mein Schiff 3” cruise ship. |
2014.12 | Florian Koch, one of the brains behind beer-in-box leaves Ankerbrau and fully concentrates on Carbotek business development. |