How to slim down beer production equipment

The continuous development of new beer varieties has gradually become a trend in the current beer industry, which provides a good opportunity for the development of medium-sized beer companies, but some large breweries have begun to invest in the establishment of branch plants for brewing specialty beers around the world

The global beer market has undergone a fundamental shift, and the return to diversity of beer varieties and types is a clear sign of an improved quality of life

crushing system

The supply of special malt is mainly in the form of finished big bags or self-packing in sacks, which is convenient for further processing and use in breweries

Next, the pulverized material is still sent to the feeding point by the same conveying device.

Another possibility to transport malt and comminuted separately is to use a pneumatic conveying system, which can overcome long distances

Overall brewing equipment

The saccharification workshop is the core part of every brewery.

At the Nuremberg Beer and Beverage Equipment Exhibition in Germany, a wort boiler was added for the first time to the tried-and-tested mash boiler, mash filter tank and gyratory settling tank system

The wort boiling method using external heaters and wort distribution umbrellas does not violate the "wort boiling theory", and brewers can exert influence from a process perspective in various ways.

After the wort is produced, the wort is transported to the wall of the wort boiling pot in the form of a thin laminar flow through the jet pipe integrated in the distribution umbrella.

Evaporation at the right place and at the right time ensures wort parameters and at the same time optimises energy consumption, even with fluctuating malt quality

hops added

The addition of natural hops in the hot zone is not new.

But unlike the past, through the post-evaporation process, the hops can be directly added to the wort before entering the cooler, and the biological safety is also guaranteed

But in the cold zone, there are some completely different and completely new hop addition methods, namely dry addition of hops

The key part of the pressure tank is the ventilation device at the bottom of the cone.

When used as a yeast breeding tank, the ventilation device is fed with sterile compressed air, which can ensure the biological safety of dry yeast when adding liquid or recovering yeast for activation.

Fermenter

When transforming, reassembling or building a fermenter, it is ideal to use a densely welded insulation layer.

If there is no yeast addition device, yeast is usually put in through the manhole in advance.
Two outflow ports are often designed on the conical tank of this scale to facilitate the filtration and filling of turbid beer
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Jars with a capacity of more than 8000 liters are mostly equipped with crimped and screwed insulation.
Uninsulated jars can also be used in an insulated space, but this will occur if both top- and bottom-fermented beers are produced in one space.
problem
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For the top-fermented beer that adopts development-type fermentation and recovers yeast from above, people have also specially developed special-shaped fermenters with pointed bottom or flat cone bottom, which can be fully cleaned by manually adding a cleaning cover.

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When using a flat-bottomed cone-bottom, the flotation cold condensate can be separated by removing the lid, and there is no need to install a separate flotation tank
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media supply

　　The consumption of production media cannot be underestimated when downsizing equipment, and peripheral equipment must be considered if the downsizing brewery is to function properly, as considerable costs are due to the oversized steam, compressed air and refrigeration equipment
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　　As a timely measure, reducing steam pressure can lead to savings, as can new technologies to reduce pressure when using high-pressure hot water
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The new equipment of modern design can use hot water with a temperature of 110 ° C for heating, the decentralized design of compressed air and cold energy helps to replace the oversized centralized equipment, the maintenance cost of the equipment must be considered overall, the application of the existing system The prospects will also be broader
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Efficiency and Cooperation

　　It is worth mentioning that in terms of energy consumption, small and medium-sized modern brewing equipment is no longer afraid to compare with large breweries, and the energy consumption of many enterprises is much lower than the industry average
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　　It is worth noting that the reduction of equipment can also provide opportunities for cooperation, which has been verified many times in the field of filling, and there is also potential for cooperation in logistics and production
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But outsourcing production in order to attract new customers with new products often undermines the credibility of companies, and today's consumers are very sensitive
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Long-term invincibility in today's ever-changing beer market requires good equipment to brew quality beer
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(Source: Modern Food Engineering)

　　"China Food News" (July 06, 2022 Edition 08)

　　(Editor-in-charge: Yuan Guofeng)