The Brief
South East Bottling provides a contract bottling service for the craft brewery sector and are based in Broadstairs, East Kent. Owners Duncan, Robert & Eddie's bottling aims were:
- A flexible system
- Bottle filtered, unfiltered & bottle conditioned beer
- 330ml & 500ml (2 formats) bottles
The Solution
Vigo supplied South East Bottling with a CIMEC America DPS 12/12/1 automatic rinsing, filling & crown capping machine to fill at a rate of 1700 bottles per hour, and an S3T6/1 rotary labelling machine. The line was installed and commissioned by Vigo’s multi-skilled team of engineers.
The Result
‘The quality of the beer in bottle is excellent, since the line was installed, which is what we wanted to achieve. It is a flexible system which allows us to bottle filtered, unfiltered and bottle-conditioned beer into 330ml bottles and two different 500ml bottle types. We have the flexibility to apply front, back, neck and full wrap around labels to these bottles, all of which is great for the growing demand of the craft brewing sector. The after sales support has been excellent.’ - Duncan Sambrook, South East Bottling
