A fire broke out at the Guinness factory in Dublin shortly after noon local time. Over nine fire brigades and three rigs with aerial ladder platforms were able to contain the blaze before it spread to the ammonia plant at the site.
An official from Guinness was able to confirm that no one was hurt in the incident.
“There were no injuries to any personnel and the fire has been extinguished,” the spokeswoman said.
Maybe I better stock up right away.
“the blaze before it spread to the ammonia plant at the site”
Ok clue me in here folks…
Why do they have an ammonia plant?
Beer is not made with it. And as far as I can tell glass and metal containers to hold beer do not use ammonia. The only thing I can think of is that maybe the cardboard used to hold the bottles could use it IF they are processing raw wood pulp into cardboard.
Can someone answer this?
Of course someone that doesn’t like the brand might say it is a byproduct of the beer being as warm and tasting like urine… But I thought that was Budweiser’s traditional grounds to taste like urine.
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Guinness with an ammonia chaser. Manly.
No big loss. In fact, had production been impacted I would say a great deed had been done.
Guinness = cool, watery coffee.
blech.
Ammonia is used in the bottle washing plant to remove anything apart from glass from the bottle. It can come in full of dried paint, inside and out, but will leave sterile, and as clean as when it was moulded. the bottles will only survive cleaning around 200 times before the glass is eroded enough to fail the qc at the end, then it is recycled into a new bottle.
It’s not the only place that Guinness is brewed. I believe that they have a couple of breweries in North America as well. They just contract out brewing, as do larger “microbreweries,” like Boston Beer (Sam Adams), or Sierra Nevada. When the demand is great, a professional brewer can brew the same beer any where. It really is just a matter of chemistry. Oh, and Guinness isn’t the same in North America as it is in Europe. It’s a different recipe, with a different alcohol content.