ABSTRACT
In the early 1900s, Moctezuma ranked among Mexico's newest breweries. Moctezuma's most significant and complicated installation was its main power plant, which as the master mechanic directed the work there gave heat, force, and, most important, incessant cold. The continuous work for power and refrigeration happened then on the master mechanic's orders in the boiler room and in the new machine house. But, being a brewery, Moctezuma was an odd sort of factory. Both brewing and fermenting operations were also intrinsically occasional, differentiated into sequential tasks. Most unusually for factory work, and most important, production took a long time, for the process of fermentation lasted from three or four to six months. By 1908 "an enormous establishment" of several large buildings across seven or eight acres, the brewery was in production practically year-round. Between the central buildings and the bottle-storage sheds, stood a small, simple power station for destruction and by-production at the drying plant.
