Chapter 1072 Preparation for the Brewery

After Luo Chong's explanation, She Xin also understood. After all, he was the head of a county, how could he not understand these simple principles?

"Snowflake is good, Snowflake is good. Just hearing this name makes me feel cool. I just don't know how the leader wants me to cooperate with the brewery?" She Xin praised happily twice, and never mentioned the previous names of Liuyang and Jinfan again.

Luo Chong thought about it for a while, and then said.

"The location of this brewery must first be convenient for transportation, and secondly, it cannot occupy too much farmland. At the same time, the area needs to be large enough. You can choose this place.

"According to my idea, this brewery should be divided into at least six areas. The first is the headquarters administrative building, which is where the factory director and accountants and other management personnel work. The second is two storage areas, one of which is the raw material storage area, mainly used to store raw materials such as barley and hops, and the other is the finished product warehouse, which is used to temporarily store bottled finished beer.

"Then there will be three processing workshops, one for raw material processing and brewing process area, one for fermentation and snow storage area, and the other is a filling workshop, which will have a barrel filling line and a glass bottle filling line, and some space will be reserved for a metal can filling line in the future.

"These add up to six areas, but it seems that it is still not enough. We should build a grocery warehouse to store wrapping paper, packaging ropes, empty wooden barrels, glass bottles and other messy things. Think about it, is there anything else missing?"

In the government office of Liuyang County, Luo Chong was talking about his ideas while She Xin was taking notes quickly, writing down all the items mentioned by Luo Chong. When he stopped writing and heard Luo Chong's question, he thought about it again to see if there was anything else he could add.

"Chief, how do you think the water should be handled? Brewing beer should require a lot of water. If the water needs to be processed in advance, should a special area be set up? "

Luo Chong nodded in agreement and said, "That's right. Making beer requires a lot of water, and those glass bottles are also recycled and reused. They can't be thrown away directly after they are sold. So we have to set up a workshop for cleaning wooden barrels and glass bottles. This workshop also requires a lot of water. Add to that the water used for brewing beer, and we really need a special area. In this way, it is equivalent to adding two more areas, which is nine areas."

She Xin nodded after listening and added again, "Listening to what the leader said just now, I found another problem. This is about food and drink. First of all, it must be clean. So the water problem of the brewery must be solved. Like the leader said, brewing beer requires clean water, and cleaning wooden barrels and glass bottles requires the discharge of a lot of unclean water, so the water inlet and outlet must be separated, and there must be no leakage, so that they can't affect each other. "

You're right. Then I'll leave the site selection to you. I'll have people prepare the other supporting facilities first. But you don't have to worry. It will take at least one or two years to build this brewery on the scale we mentioned, so you should find a place first."

Luo Chong waved his hand and handed the task of selecting the site to She Xin. Then he set off again for the next stop, which was the glass factory on the island in the middle of the lake.

There are many islands in the big lake east of Liuyang County, dozens of them large and small, and the glass factory is just one of them. When Luo Chong arrived at the glass factory on the island by boat, production was still in full swing. The

current glass factory is not large in scale, but there is a lot of work. The workers here are not out of work all year round, and there is no such thing as a long vacation, but this is exactly the life they like. If the day comes when there is no work and a vacation, The workers will have to worry about what to eat.

The main products of the glass factory are flat glass of various thicknesses, which are mainly used for building materials, building houses, installing windows and doors, etc., and also for making silver-plated glass mirrors.

The second is the production of liquor bottles. The liquor bottles of the Han tribe are not recycled, they are all disposable, and the people who buy liquor are reluctant to throw them away. Such beautiful glass bottles are usually suitable for storing cooking oil at home, aren’t they? Who would be willing to throw them away.

Then there is a relatively large project, which is glass lampshades, which are mainly lampshades used on calcium carbide lamps of various shapes, such as transparent ones. Colorful ones, everything.

Finally, there are tableware, mainly various glassware, bowls, plates, cups, spoons and so on. There is no fixed project, just sell whatever is made. Usually it is mainly used for retail, just like selling porcelain.

At present, there are more than 200 workers and managers in the glass factory, who are responsible for these production projects, but there is only one semi-automatic production line in the whole factory, and the automatic production line is mainly driven by the air compressors in the factory.

In the past, things like blowing glass bottles required craftsmen to hold iron pipes. Use your mouth to blow, but since the advent of air compressors, things like wine bottles that are of uniform size and are all blown out of the same mold can now be blown with air compressors, saving the craftsmen a lot of physical effort, and they no longer have sore cheeks from blowing every day, and the production efficiency has also increased a lot compared to before.

However, although air compressors are used nowadays, some steps still have to be done manually, so it can only be called a semi-automatic production line. However, Luo Chong didn't come here to manage this this time. He went directly to the person in charge of the factory, gave him a few drawings and said,

"These are the drawings of several newly designed bottles. There are three views in a '1:1' ratio, and the actual specifications are marked with data. The large ones are newly designed wine bottles, and the small ones are soda bottles.

"The soda bottles must be pure transparent, and the wine bottles must be green and dark brown. Blow out a few of each. I'll see the effect first, and then decide which one to use in the end!"

The person in charge flipped through the drawings and looked at them, then said in surprise, "Snowflake? Bingfeng?! Is this the name of the bottle or the name of the wine and soda? It seems a bit nice!"

Luo Chong smiled slyly when he heard this. That's right, he not only plagiarized the beer brand of Snowflake, but also borrowed the name of the domestic soda "Bingfeng" in his previous life. After all, it is an iced drink for summer heat relief. The name Bingfeng sounds very cool, right?

This can only be said that those predecessors in those days really knew how to name.

In fact, there is also a very famous domestic soda brand called "North Pole", but this name is too specific and cannot be applied to any snowy mountain like "Bingfeng". When the time comes to name it "North Pole", when people ask what the North Pole is, it is impossible for Luo Chong to say that it is a kind of goat that lives in the north and freezes, right? !

"Yes, it's the name of the wine and soda. When can you make the bottle sample?" Luo Chong nodded, explained the name, and then asked about the time.

"Is the leader in a hurry? When do you need it?" The man did not answer directly but asked back.

"It would be best if within a week, in addition to the size and shape, the thickness of the glass bottle and the sturdiness of the bottle mouth should be made as sturdy as possible. This is different from the white wine bottle, which is to be recycled. After being sold, it must be collected and reused, so it should be as sturdy as possible.

"Also, the color of the wine bottle, mainly green and dark brown, you'd better make a few more samples according to different shades, so that I can choose when the time comes. Including the cost price of the materials, also need to be listed to provide some data analysis for the final decision." Luo Chong reminded again.

"Yes, in fact, the leader understands that blowing a bottle is a matter of half a minute at most, but since it is a new sample, we have to open a few new molds. We can't make this mold yet, we have to ask Xingang County to process it. If the leader is in a hurry, it's best to say hello to them first." The person in charge reminded Luo Chong again.

Luo Chong taught them the craft of blowing glass bottles. How could he not know these things? So he did not make things difficult or hesitate, and said immediately.

"I also happen to be going to Xingang County. Whoever you want to send with me, pack up and follow me immediately. You can connect with each other there."

Luo Chong arranged the proofing work of beer bottles, and then took people to Xingang County without stopping.

There are also many things to do in Xingang County. First of all, new metal molds are made for the glass factory, and there is also the task of developing a production line for the brewery.

Han tribe currently does not have stainless steel, so it is naturally impossible to manufacture a production line for food-grade stainless steel. However, for the brewing industry, the same is true for copper utensils, so Luo Chong directly gave Lin Fei the task of developing a copper plating production line.

Han tribe does not have electroplating technology at present, but chemical plating technology is no problem. Chemical plating only requires the workpiece to be placed in a potion and heated to 70 or 80 degrees to copper the workpiece, and no electricity is required.

The beer production line mainly includes malt crusher, malt soaking tank, cooking kettle, cooler, fermentation tank, etc. These are not high-tech things, but are relatively common tools. However, there is a kind of equipment that needs to be specially developed, that is, beer capping machine.

It is the kind of capping equipment that stamps iron sheets and then wraps them around the mouth of the glass bottle.

Once the capping machine is developed, it can be used not only in beer filling, but also in the soda industry. After all, the Han tribe now has no plastics, and even the production of soda can only use glass bottles.

However, this is not a difficult task. The capping machine is nothing more than a multi-stage stamping technology. First, a round iron sheet is stamped out from the iron sheet, and then the iron sheet is stamped into the shape of a bottle cap through a secondary stamping. The last step is to hoop the bottle cap on the mouth of the glass bottle. There are three steps in total. For the Han tribe who have mastered the stamping technology, it is not a problem.

However, this capping machine cannot be rushed. At least you have to make a wine bottle first before you can experiment on the wine bottle. Otherwise, who knows if it can be used after it is made.

After finishing the production line in Xingang County, the only thing left was the label stickers on the beer bottles. This matter had to be handed over to Bai Qi, who was in charge of all the printing affairs of the Han tribe, so printing labels had to be handed over to him.

Even if the labels were in color, they could still be done through overdyeing technology.

Speaking of printing technology, Luo Chong remembered the roller ink printing technology and Chinese typewriter proposed by Bai Qi a while ago. He didn't know if they had been developed yet, and he didn't pay much attention to this matter.

Luo Chong had solved most of the entire beer production process, and now there was only one supporting project left, which was the rubber gasket inside the bottle cap.

However, this was not a difficult problem for the rubber team of the Comprehensive Research Institute. After all, they had even solved the more difficult tractor tires, so how could a rubber gasket possibly be difficult for them.

Although this was not a difficult task, it had to be done one by one, and Luo Chong couldn't rush it. Without wine bottles, he couldn't develop a capping machine, and without a capping machine, he couldn't make bottle caps. Without bottle caps, how could he make rubber gaskets?

There was nothing to do, so after arranging things, Luo Chong returned to Liuyang County again. She Xin had found the best address for the brewery.

According to Luo Chong's requirements, he chose a place close to the water source and not occupying much arable land. This place is located between Babaoshan and Liuyang County. It is basically mountainous, so it is naturally impossible to use it to reclaim farmland. There is also a mountain spring that never stops flowing all year round, which can just solve the water problem of the brewery.

However, there is a problem with transportation. If you want to build a factory here, you have to build a road to the Liuyang County wharf in the future.

But this is not a problem. Now that Xingang County has a cement plant and the Power Research Institute has produced a lot of engineering machinery, it is not a problem to build a simple cement road. Since She Xin has chosen the address, Luo Chong didn't worry about it and directly handed it over to him.

After choosing the site and arranging the supporting production equipment, Luo Chong returned to Hanyang County. He returned home and personally drew a label for beer, and then asked the guards to call Bai Qi over.

In the study room of Luo Chong's house, Luo Chong handed the label paper sample to Bai Qi without saying anything.

"It shouldn't be a problem to print in color according to this pattern and the colors on it, right?"

Bai Qi took the pattern and looked at it. There were words and pictures on it, as well as the background color of the label, a total of five or six colors, but this was not a difficult task. Just carve out a printing plate for each color pattern, and then dye them one by one. It was not a complicated matter.

Moreover, all the labels looked the same, which was different from a book. As long as there was one plate, it would be repeated printing.

Bai Qi looked at the pattern and quickly agreed, "Don't worry, chief, printing this is not a difficult task. Once the printing plate is carved, only one or two workers will be needed to print it. I guess the labels printed out will not be used up even in the palace."

(End of this chapter)