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FRESH & CHILLED
A chilly relationship
It doesn’t get more Australian: beer; a big fridge; and a woolshed. Kim Berry reports on a South Australian success story.
SINCE it started in the 1980s, refrigeration company Cold Logic has chilled more than 1.6 billion litres of Australian beer. So it makes sense the company won the contract to chill around 11 million litres of beer a year for Pirate Life Brewing.
It’s a long way from when the two companies started working together in 2014, when Pirate Life was just starting out.
The brewer, acquired by Belgian brewing giant Anheuser-Busch InBev (AB InBev) in 2017, has built a $15 million brewery and venue in the historic woolsheds of Port Adelaide in South Australia.
The move from its original Hindmarsh site will see its production quadruple.
The 400kW refrigeration plant – designed and assembled at Cold Logic’s nearby Port Adelaide factory – consists of compressors, a plate heat exchanger, evaporative
Cold Logic partner Eddie Lane and Pirate Life CEO John Phinney have worked together since Pirate Life began.
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