Improvements Made at the Georgia
Brewing Association's Plant.
The Georgia Brewing Association is one od Savannah's industries
that has been incorporated now as a new company only
seven months, the plant being formerly owned by the P.
H. Wolters Brewing Company, yet within that time it has
almost entirely re-equipped the plant and purchased a
large additional property which it has added.
This is the Stiles property at the corner of Bay and Abercorn
streets, under which and extensive beer cellar has been
constructed, giving the plant now a capacity of about
25,000 barrels of beer a year. The company has not yet
reached its full capacity, but no doubt will have to do
so within a short time. It is now making from 15,000 to
18,000 barrels a year.
The company makes only one brand, the Tivoli beer, and most of it
is consumed right here in Savannah. During certain
seasons of the year there are two brews a day and the
mash tub at each brewing contains about seventy-five
barrels of beer. This is carried off into the vats for
the different processes of fermentation through which it
goes, and within about three months, or a little less,
from the time it is turned into these vats it comes out
as clear and bright as beer could be desired.
The cellars contain about 2,500 barrels at a time, and are
kept clean and neat, as is everything about the brewery.
A visit to the brewery and a trip through the various
cellars and passages through which the liquid has to go
before it get its clear amber color and becomes beer.,
is decidedly interesting. The new company is doing well.
About that there can be no doubt when the United States
registry books on which the amounts of beer that goes
out is recorded show that the company's sales have
increased more than 25 per cent, this year over the same
months of last year.
