For 12 years, Duotank has been transporting tank beer to venues all across Australia – serving as an essential connecting link between breweries and venues for one of the country’s most popular options when it comes to alcoholic beverages.
As a global brand hailing from Europe, Duotank itself has developed and installed beer tank and shipment systems around the world since 1985, defining its manufacturing with a key focus on quality, craftsmanship and co-operation at every possible turn.
The brand entered the Australian market in 2012 and has grown exponentially since. It now operates across Victoria, New South Wales, Queensland and Australian Capital Territory delivering beer to around 250 venues for Carlton & United Breweries.
According to Duotank Australasia Director, Nick Philp, this deal requires the constant movement of beer to a varying number of venues which overall has increased since the beginning of Duotank’s deliveries.
“Based on some recent numbers, we’ve delivered around 22 million litres since the beginning,” he says. “We have 12 trucks on the road as of today to move this amount, with another three in build.”
The temperature of beer during its transport from brewery to pub is pivotal. Duotank has honed its craft in keeping unpasteurised beer under pressure and cold during transit, which according to Nick is essential in maintaining beer to the standards that the brewer intended.
“Everything we do to keep the beer cold is Carrier-based. The company is integral to our cold-chain logistics operations.”
Duotank has developed propriety bag-in tank technology protecting the liquid from oxygen ingress while maintaining the correct carbonation level that is set by the brewery. From there, the liquid is kept at serving temperature with a near fleet-wide reliance on Carrier Transicold’s Supra 850 refrigeration units.
“The Carrier 850s on our trucks keep the beer at four degrees Celsius during transport,” Nick says. “We pump cold beer up from the brewery into our trucks’ insulated tanks, transport it and then dose it into cold tanks at designated venues all at the same temperature. The Carrier units ensure that the beer never goes above serving temperature.”
With Carrier’s refrigeration systems maintaining perfect serving temperature, Duotank’s beer delivery systems and cold venue tanks use compressed air to dispense beer from tank to tap, mitigating over or under carbonation while reducing the amount of manual handling involved.
“A lot of the venues we supply have 500-litre tanks,” Nick says. “Once those tanks are full and opened, the venue doesn’t have to touch them. There’s no carbon dioxide needed to dispense the beer.”
The partnership between Duotank and Carrier has been long and fruitful since it began.
When Duotank initially entered the Australian market, Nick approached Carrier based on both the recommendations he had been given within the industry as well as his desire to limit the amount of equipment suppliers Duotank would have deal with.
Over the years, Nick has never looked back. He cites Carrier’s reliable and diligent work as the main contributor to the partnership’s enduring success.
“Everything we do to keep the beer cold is Carrier-based,” he says. “The company is integral to our cold-chain logistics. Carrier is a key supplier.”
Sharing similar values of quality and craftsmanship, Carrier provides Duotank with frequent fridge servicing and maintenance on the 850 units, guaranteeing effective temperature control for each transport journey. This collaboration also extends to ideas of environmentally conscious operations and sustainability, an increasingly important issue in the logistics sector that both companies are aware of.
On its own, Duotank has started its transition towards electric vehicles in Australia as part of an overall pledge to reduce carbon emissions.
“We’re oriented towards any form of environmental benefit that we can bring to both the industry and the world around us,” Nick says.
Duotank’s devotion to environmental sustainability is being greatly assisted by Carrier’s new Supra HE 9 fridge unit which is the latest piece of equipment from the OEM to join the fleet.
The system is built for greater functionality while reducing diesel and overall power usage from the host truck both during transport and when on standby. And to Nick, it’s a privilege to be able to utilise it. He views it as a symbol of the companies’ compatible visions and continued ability to operate sustainably.
“We at Duotank are so thankful to Carrier for giving us the opportunity to be one of the early adopters of using this new model,” he says. “We also appreciate Carrier’s like-mindedness in and around sustainability and innovation in its field.”
The partnership with Carrier has enabled temperature sensitive unpasteurised beer to be transported across Australia in Duotank’s network, combining quality, safety, precision and sustainability to successfully move millions of litres right from the start.
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