Asia Brewery, Inc.

is a Philippinesbased diversified beverage company

owned by LT Group, Inc. (PSE:LTG),
a publicly listed holding company of
Lucio Tan, Sr.. The company is one of
only two breweries currently
operating in the Philippines. It also
produces non-alcoholic beverages.

History

January 27, 1982

- Asia Brewery, Inc. was born
- Inaugurated its first brewery in Cabuyao, Laguna.
1988
- ABI introduced its most successful and most controversial
brand Beer Pale Pilsen, now popularly known as Beer na Beer.
1992
- ABI inaugurated its second brewery in El Salvador, Misamis
Oriental
ABI also diversified its product portfolio from beer to nonalcoholic beverages with Summit Natural Drinking Water and
Absolute Pure Distilled Drinking Water.
1995
- The launch of Colt 45 Malt Liquor.

1999
- Beer na Beer, in its new look,
was re-introduced in the market
during this year.
- The introduction of Pacific Sun
Iced Tea
2000
- The Monde Selection awarded
gold medals to Beer na Beer, Lone
Star Beer and Colt 45 Malt Liquor.

2006
- Two new products were
introduced: 100 PLUS ISOTONIC
SPORTS DRINK and COBRA
ENERGY DRINK.
- 100 PLUS ISOTONIC SPORTS
DRINK was launched in the
Philippines in partnership with F &
N (Fraser and Neave Limited)
- Cobra Energy Drink was
launched in December 2006.

2007
- In collaboration with Molson
Coors Brewing Company of the US,
ABI introduced Coors Light and
Coors Original.
2008
- Summit Zero Cal was introduced
in the market.
- Summit Vitamin Water was also
launched.
2009
- The launch of Tanduay Ice
Alcomix

2010
- ABIs first ever dairy product
Vitamilk was introduced.
2011
- Introduced the Roots Ginger
Brew

The Brewering Process

Ingredients
Process

Ingredients

At Asia Brewery, only the finest ingredients are

selected from the worlds most reputable
suppliers in the making of each one of our
products.
Ingredients
- Water
- Malt
- Adjuncts
- Hops
- Yeast

Process

Malt Storage
Milling
Mashing
Straining
Boiling
Wort Cooling
Fermentation
Ageing
Filtration
Bright Beer
Packaging

Malt Storage

Malt is shipped
from overseas
in containers
where they are
brought to the
brewery and
unloaded into
the Malt Silos.

Milling

At the onset of
brewing, the
barley malt is
milled to
maximize extract
formation and an
efficient
straining
operation.

Mashing

The ground malt is mixed in

the mash vessel. Milled or
broken adjuncts are mixed
with water in a cereal cooker.
The adjuncts are boiled and
combined with the malt in the
Mash vessel. The temperature
of the mash is carefully
controlled so that the natural
enzymes in the malt break
down the starches found in
the malt and the adjuncts into
fermentable sugars.

Straining

The clear, sweet

extract formed in the
mashing step (called
wort) is strained
from the husk
material in a Mash
Filter or a Lauter Tun.
The husk material,
called spent grains,
serves as an
excellent cattle feed.

Boiling

The wort is collected

in the Brewkettle and
brought to a boil.
Hops are then added.
If granulated sugar is
to be used as an
adjunct, the sugar is
liquefied and added.
Boiling also
enhances both the
evaporation of
undesirable aroma
compounds and the
precipitation of
excess protein.

Wort Cooling

When boiling is
complete, the
wort is cooled
to a proper
temperature in
a plate cooler
to make it
ready for the
addition of the
yeast.

Fermenting

The yeast
metabolizes the
fermentable sugars
formed during the
brewing process
into alcohol and
CO2 in
temperaturecontrolled
fermenters. It is at
this stage that the
wort turns into beer.

Ageing

When fermentation
is complete, the
green beer is
cooled and
transferred to
ageing tanks in
order for the beer to
mature. Over a span
of 2 to 3 weeks, the
beer mellows out
and develops its
final flavor.

Filtration

After
ageing, the
beer is
further
chilled,
stabilized
and filtered.

Bright Beer

Freshly filtered
beer is put in a
bright beer
tank ready for
packaging. Final
quality control
checks are
made to ensure
that the beer
meets all the
stringent
specifications.

Packaging

State-of-theart
automated
bottling lines
are used to
package Asia
Brewery
products in
bottles and
cans.

Their Breweries

Cabuyao,

Laguna
El Salvador

Cabuyao, Laguna

CABUYAO PLANT is one of the biggest and most modern,

fully-integrated manufacturing plants in Southeast Asia.
Located 45km southeast of Manila, the plant is designed
to process an annual production capacity of 4 million
hectoliters of beer. The complex also houses a fully
automated glass plant capable of turning out 20 different
bottle types at any given time; a plastic crate
manufacturing plant; a corrugated carton plant; a power
generating plant; a waste water treatment plant; various
warehousing and transportation operations and a bottled
water production facility. ABIs bottling and packaging
plants service some of the countrys largest food and
beverage companies.

El Salvador

EL SALVADOR In 1992, ABI achieved another

milestone by opening Mindanaos first
brewery, in the town of El Salvador, some
20km west of Cagayan de Oro City, in
Misamis Oriental. Rated to produce
approximately 2 million hectoliters of beer
per annum, this brewery boasts of fully
computerized, state-of-the-art facilities. This
brewery fulfills the companys need to
supply the growing market demand for its
products in Mindanao and the Visayas.