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  • Union Jack Sponsors 5th Beericana Craft Beer Music Festival

    Union Jack Sponsors 5th Beericana Craft Beer Music Festival

    Union Jack is proudly sponsoring the brewers tent at the 5th Annual Beericana Craft Beer and Music Festival in Holly Springs, NC at Sugg Farm. Join over 70 breweries, 15 food trucks, 3 great bands, and a few thousand of your closest friends on Saturday, September 8th at this unique setting! VIP time starts at noon. General [...]
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  • How to Choose the Right Container for the Job

    How to Choose the Right Container for the Job

    Containers (aka Totes or Lugs) and Bulk Bins …No matter what you call them, they are indispensable. Whether you are harvesting, fermenting, graining out, or need to haul, ship or store a multitude of materials, having the right container for the job (and enough of them) can impact productivity and efficiency. So, let’s talk a little about the characteristics [...]
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  • 10 Essential Tools for Your Brewery or Winery

    10 Essential Tools for Your Brewery or Winery

    Great Beer & Wine Deserves Great Tools! Here’s your go-to list for the 10 essential tools for your brewery, cidery or winery… 1. Food Hoe When graining out or cleaning out your tanks, you need a durable and hygienically designed food hoe that won’t cause scratches or damage. Our hoe is made from FDA-compliant material. It has a molded nylon [...]
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  • 7 Steps to Color-Coding in Your Brewery

    7 Steps to Color-Coding in Your Brewery

    Color-coding is designating certain colors for tools that should be used in different zones or uses. The purpose is to prevent cross contamination and promote safety and sanitation. Implementing a basic color-coding plan in your brewery doesn’t have to be complicated. Color-coding can be a simple and smart choice to help ensure food safety in your brewery and an [...]
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  • Understanding Color-Coding Basics - FSMA / HACCP Compliance

    Understanding Color-Coding Basics - FSMA / HACCP Compliance

    Let’s talk color-coding! It’s important to understand why breweries should consider using it and why its benefits go beyond helping to satisfy new food safety regulations. Color-coding has always been practical and widely used by the food processing industry. In the wake of more stringent Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulations (see the Food Safety and Modernization Act (FSMA) of [...]
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  • Beer is Food - Know Impact Food Safety Legislation on Breweries

    Beer is Food - Know Impact Food Safety Legislation on Breweries

    Breweries place a priority on making sure their processes, equipment and brewhouses are sanitary as part of day to day operations. The number of brewery customers buying top quality food safety and cleaning tools is a testament to that, so is the amount of great quality beer out there. With increasing requirements on breweries to comply with federal food [...]
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  • Proper Care of Your Harvest Bins, Totes & Lugs

    Proper Care of Your Harvest Bins, Totes & Lugs

    Making sure you have the right tools and containers for the job is our priority – we want to help make your job easier! We've pulled together important information about our best-selling, reusable harvest bins, bulk containers, and handheld totes/lugs, along with helpful hints for their use and care...Harvest Bins and Bulk Containers. Our durable and [...]

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  • Food Safety Summit begins; keynote broadcast for first time

    CHICAGO - MAY 8, 2018. More than 1,700 food safety researchers and regulators are coming together here today along with food producers for the 20th annual Food Safety Summit. Seminars, panel discussions, and other educational presentations begin today. The trade show floor also opens today, providing the opportunity for government agencies, universities and businesses that support food safety efforts to interact [...]
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  • Brewery Equipment on List of Tariffs U.S. Imposes on China

    April 9, 2018 -- The Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) released the Section 301 list against 1,300 products from China valued at approximately $50 billion. These tariffs were ordered in retaliation for the “harm to the US economy” from certain Chinese industrial and intellectual property policies. USTR proposes imposing an additional 25% tariffs on the listed products, [...]
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