ADVISORY/Photo of Gordon Biersch Brewing Company's stainless steel beer fermentation tank is available on BW PhotoWire/AP PhotoExpress, NewsCom, PressLink and Business Wire's Web Site.Photo/Food Editors ADVISORY... --(BUSINESS WIRE) The photo is BW4 on AP PhotoExpress. The photo is on Business Wire's Web Site at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photo.cgi?pw.031600/bw4 Photo caption reads: Steve Nielsen facilitates the installation of one of four stainless steel stainless steel: see steel. stainless steel Any of a family of alloy steels usually containing 10–30% chromium. The presence of chromium, together with low carbon content, gives remarkable resistance to corrosion and heat. beer fermentation tanks Fer`men`ta´tion tank 1. a tank in which fermentations are carried out. at the Gordon Biersch Brewing Company Gordon Biersch is an American brewery founded by Dan Gordon and Dean Biersch. Gordon, a graduate from the five-year brewing engineering program at Weihenstephan, and Biersch opened their first brewery restaurant in Palo Alto, California in July 1988. in San Jose San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif. The four tanks -- each 35 feet tall, 13 feet in diameter and capable of holding 17,800 gallons of beer -- were hoisted by crane 100 feet in the air, and then lowered through the roof of the expanded brewery. The first major brewery in the area since the close of the Falstaff Brewery in the 1960's, the expansion of the facility will double the production of beer, increasing annual capacity to 3.1 million gallons of beer, making Gordon Biersch Brewing Company the largest brewery in the Bay Area. Photographer: Mark Hundley (Business Wire photo) |
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