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BEVERAGES
✷ PURE H2O
A more sustainable tipple
WATER SOLUTION
Archie Rose’s new Botany facility will use less water, power and gas than its predecessor.
As part of its sustainability focus, the distiller is installing water filtration and effluent treatment equipment from Hydroflux Industrial.
Hydroflux equipment will be used for process water treatment and trade wastewater treatment at the new environmentally conscious distillery.
Water purity is critical to the quality of the distilled spirits, but the same high level is not necessary for general production processes.
Hydroflux’s pure water system is designed to produce two levels of water purity, to ensure the right type of water is used throughout the distillery in the most economical way.
New factories that are built with the latest world-class equipment, particularly those focused on sustainability, often produce different wastewater than that seen in older facilities.
Hydroflux says it has tailored an expandable trade wastewater treatment system for Archie Rose to cover all possible future scenarios.
For Archie Rose founder Will Edwards, the Hydroflux system gave the company what it needed without over-engineering or overspending.
Edwards said he was drawn to Hydroflux because of the company’s experience and ability to troubleshoot and resolve issues that cropped up during operations.
ABOVE: The process water treatment equipment that will be installed by Hydroflux.
Archie Rose is constructing a new distillery at Botany that has sustainability at its heart.
accommodate Archie Rose’s specific production processes; including its six-malt single malt mash bill, extensive use of specialty roasted malts, malted rye and individually distilled gin botanicals.
“This new site is a massive step for us,” Edwards says. “Not only will it allow us to bring all our casks, packaging, raw materials and team back under one roof, but it provides us with the opportunity to re-conceive and design every aspect of the distillery specifically to suit our unique production methods.
“For example, customising the mill and brew house to be able to handle our six-malt, high specialty roasted malt mash bill as well as malted rye, and a modified gin still to further increase the clarity of our individually distilled botanical distillates.”
With this in mind, Edwards says, the Botany expansion will allow Archie Rose to consider sustainability in not just its processes, but also its production equipment, to use less water, power and gas, and capture and reuse as much energy as possible throughout the distilling process. ✷
SYDNEY spirits company Archie Rose Distilling Co. recently embarked on the construction of its second distillery and bond store. It is scheduled for completion in the middle of the year.
The new distillery is located in Botany, just four kilometres away from Archie Rose’s original distillery in Rosebery, which opened in 2014 and produces a diverse range of whiskies, gins, vodkas and rums, as well as one-off collaborations and limited release products.
The new distillery will enable the brand to increase its commitment to innovation and progression in distilling. It will free up additional capacity for R&D projects, limited release products, and a greater focus on sustainable distilling practices.
Once completed, the Botany site will also enable Archie Rose to bring its existing whisky stock into a centralised bond store to better monitor maturation and provide additional capacity for gin, vodka and whisky production.
This will see the Rosebery distillery dedicated exclusively to R&D projects and limited release trials that explore the fringes of spirits production.
“Once the Botany site is completed we’ll dedicate our current Rosebery distillery entirely to R&D, limited release trials and the weirder innovation projects we are constantly undertaking and love to work on,” Archie Rose founder Will Edwards says.
“It’s a pretty huge pilot distillery for an R&D program, but it’s reflective of how important innovation is to us as distillers, and we’re incredibly excited to share the good, not so good and just plain weird things that will no doubt come out of that site.”
The Botany distillery is being designed and constructed from the ground up, and features world-class energy-efficient brewing and distilling technology, some of which is the first of its kind in Australia, the company says.
It will be specifically engineered and custom built to
ABOVE: The Rosebery plant, which opened in 2014, will now be used for R&D.
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