Details need to be noted when buying beer brewery equipment
- Sep 20, 2022
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- tiantai
In recent years, the popularity of craft beer has made some home brews successfully commercialized. The way of business must go through professional brewery equipment to ensure the stability of beer quality and beer production.
For customers, one sets of beer brewery equipment ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands, it is also a large investment. If you meet quality problems and the manufacturer has no after-sales service, now regret it is too late. There is an old Chinese saying: you get what you pay for! But small manufacturers can't do it well, the answer is definitely no, you need to check the strength of the manufacturer and the processing of the brewery equipment, look at the thickness and material of the raw material (201, 304); see if the welding of the pipeline is filled with argon gas protection Welding, whether there is no welding slag inside and outside; check whether the hygiene of the factory is qualified, it is said that foreign companies inspect the OEM only to see whether the bathroom of the factory is qualified, because the details determine everything!
The further detailed introduction as below for your reference:
1. Brewhouse unit
a. At present, the hotel bar craft beer brewery equipment is mainly based on two vessel, saying one mash/lauter tun, one Kettle/whirlpool tun. If the budget is enough, it is recommended to add a hot water tank to help sparging. The volume of the hot liquor tank can be single batch or double batch of the MLT. If you plan to brew multiple batches a day, don't hesitate, a 3 Vessel of 4 Vessel brewhouse equipment would help you a lot.
B. It is recommended to use a flat bottom lauter tun with a wort collection ring and anti rinser pipeline, as well as a false bottom that is easy to disassemble. After each brewing batch, the false bottom should be taken out, washed and dried. Craft beer brewers in Europe and the United States often disassemble and wash the false bottom, because there is a place where dirt is easy to hide, and it is usually invisible. In summer, it will breed bacteria in half a day.
C. The heating method of the brewery equipment is also very important. The best choice for steam heating is that the heating surface of the steam heating is uniform, and the color of the wort will not be too deep, it is good for wort quality . Some of our clients in Australia and South American customers like direct fire heating with natural gas, which is also very good and saves energy! The direct fire heating suits when you are not convenient to use steam, or it is too expensive to use steam.
2. Fermentation tank
a. If you have enough budget for brewery project, please add side manholes or top manhole, bunging valve, breath relief valve, sampling valves, laser welding jackets, dry hopping port with hop doser directly.
b. The most important thing is the material and thickness of the raw material. The use pressure of the fermentation tank exceeds 1 bar, which should belong to the category of pressure vessels. At the same time, the temperature generated during use is too high, too low, the pressure is too high, and the acid and alkali will cause fatigue of the steel plate. That would influence the lifetime of fermenters. The thickness of the inner shell of the capacity above 500L should not be less than 3 mm, the thickness of the glycol jacket should be 1.5 mm, and the thickness of the external shell should be at 2 mm. If your fermenter finds a leak after a year of use, it is possible that the manufacturer did not use a steel plate with sufficient thickness, or the welding workers are too poor, and the welding is seriously oxidized.
3. Chillers
The work of the chillers is very, very important. The preservation of all craft beer is inseparable from low temperature, especially lager beer needs low temperature. Once the chiller got any problem, the temperature of all beers will rise, which will seriously affect the beer quality. So you will find that we generally recommend two sets, such as using two 5HP instead of one 8HP. When you are not under busy brewing days, you can turn on only one set, and these two chillers could work alternatively, it is also good for chiller life time.
4. Steam Boiler
It is recommended to use large or famous brands in this line of business. If you know any good boiler supplier at local, we suggest you to get it from local, that would avoid any further certificate problem or after sale problem etc. At the same time, the use of boilers must be equipped with softened water device. Otherwise, the scale in the boiler will be full in a few months, which will seriously affect the safety.
For further more details on the purchasing of brewery equipment, please feel free to contact with us!
Laura Hou
Sales Manager
Tiantai Beer Equipment
[email protected]
For customers, one sets of beer brewery equipment ranging from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands, it is also a large investment. If you meet quality problems and the manufacturer has no after-sales service, now regret it is too late. There is an old Chinese saying: you get what you pay for! But small manufacturers can't do it well, the answer is definitely no, you need to check the strength of the manufacturer and the processing of the brewery equipment, look at the thickness and material of the raw material (201, 304); see if the welding of the pipeline is filled with argon gas protection Welding, whether there is no welding slag inside and outside; check whether the hygiene of the factory is qualified, it is said that foreign companies inspect the OEM only to see whether the bathroom of the factory is qualified, because the details determine everything!
The further detailed introduction as below for your reference:
1. Brewhouse unit
a. At present, the hotel bar craft beer brewery equipment is mainly based on two vessel, saying one mash/lauter tun, one Kettle/whirlpool tun. If the budget is enough, it is recommended to add a hot water tank to help sparging. The volume of the hot liquor tank can be single batch or double batch of the MLT. If you plan to brew multiple batches a day, don't hesitate, a 3 Vessel of 4 Vessel brewhouse equipment would help you a lot.
B. It is recommended to use a flat bottom lauter tun with a wort collection ring and anti rinser pipeline, as well as a false bottom that is easy to disassemble. After each brewing batch, the false bottom should be taken out, washed and dried. Craft beer brewers in Europe and the United States often disassemble and wash the false bottom, because there is a place where dirt is easy to hide, and it is usually invisible. In summer, it will breed bacteria in half a day.
C. The heating method of the brewery equipment is also very important. The best choice for steam heating is that the heating surface of the steam heating is uniform, and the color of the wort will not be too deep, it is good for wort quality . Some of our clients in Australia and South American customers like direct fire heating with natural gas, which is also very good and saves energy! The direct fire heating suits when you are not convenient to use steam, or it is too expensive to use steam.
2. Fermentation tank
a. If you have enough budget for brewery project, please add side manholes or top manhole, bunging valve, breath relief valve, sampling valves, laser welding jackets, dry hopping port with hop doser directly.
b. The most important thing is the material and thickness of the raw material. The use pressure of the fermentation tank exceeds 1 bar, which should belong to the category of pressure vessels. At the same time, the temperature generated during use is too high, too low, the pressure is too high, and the acid and alkali will cause fatigue of the steel plate. That would influence the lifetime of fermenters. The thickness of the inner shell of the capacity above 500L should not be less than 3 mm, the thickness of the glycol jacket should be 1.5 mm, and the thickness of the external shell should be at 2 mm. If your fermenter finds a leak after a year of use, it is possible that the manufacturer did not use a steel plate with sufficient thickness, or the welding workers are too poor, and the welding is seriously oxidized.
3. Chillers
The work of the chillers is very, very important. The preservation of all craft beer is inseparable from low temperature, especially lager beer needs low temperature. Once the chiller got any problem, the temperature of all beers will rise, which will seriously affect the beer quality. So you will find that we generally recommend two sets, such as using two 5HP instead of one 8HP. When you are not under busy brewing days, you can turn on only one set, and these two chillers could work alternatively, it is also good for chiller life time.
4. Steam Boiler
It is recommended to use large or famous brands in this line of business. If you know any good boiler supplier at local, we suggest you to get it from local, that would avoid any further certificate problem or after sale problem etc. At the same time, the use of boilers must be equipped with softened water device. Otherwise, the scale in the boiler will be full in a few months, which will seriously affect the safety.
For further more details on the purchasing of brewery equipment, please feel free to contact with us!
Laura Hou
Sales Manager
Tiantai Beer Equipment
[email protected]
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