The Importance of water when brewing craft beer in micro breweries beer plant
- Jul 29, 2021
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- tiantai
The Importance of water when brewing craft beer in micro breweries beer plant Water is the unsung hero of the craft beer brewing industry micro brewery. When breweries tell you about all of our latest releases, we’ll always mention hops and adjuncts, sometimes malt bills… but rarely the water profile.
Most brewers will tell you that brewing is 90% cleaning. For anyone who’s toured our brewery, you’ll have seen how the hard, chalky Finchampstead water leaves its mark on our brewhouse. If you live in a hard water area, you’ll know the frustration of water residue - particularly on appliances like kettles. If you can imagine that on an industrial scale, the toll on making sure our equipment is free of limescale and working efficiently over time can be a timely and costly task.
We have a lot of moving equipment in the brewery, like our canning line, which has a constant flow of water. Our hot liquor tank (HLT - used to heat water) would normally have around 4 or 5 buckets (50+ kgs) of solid calcium per month forming within it. Our brewers would have to climb in and dig this out, much like you would have to descale your kettle, but on a much larger scale.
Making cleaning easier for our team will improve their working days and allow us to focus on other areas that we’re keen to improve by freeing up time. At the same time we’ll be cleaning more effectively and protecting our equipment for the long term.
With a neutral, softer, water profile, we have far more control earlier in the process. With the softer base, we can add the required salts and minerals as required, for example returning the water to its previous base for stouts.
How much does it cost to start a brewery? TIANTAI company is turnkey 2-150bbl beer micro brewery equipment manufacturer. Including malt miller, 2 vessel/ 3 vessel/ 4 vessel/ 5 vessel/ 6 vessel brew house equipment, brewing house, beer fermenters, brite beer tanks, beer bottling machine,beer canning machine, keg washer, keg filler, hopping machine, yeast propagation tank. We also supply all auxiliary brewery systems like steam heating pipe and valves, water treatment machine, filter, air compressor etc.
Derrick
Sales Manager
[email protected]
Tiantai Beer Equipment
Most brewers will tell you that brewing is 90% cleaning. For anyone who’s toured our brewery, you’ll have seen how the hard, chalky Finchampstead water leaves its mark on our brewhouse. If you live in a hard water area, you’ll know the frustration of water residue - particularly on appliances like kettles. If you can imagine that on an industrial scale, the toll on making sure our equipment is free of limescale and working efficiently over time can be a timely and costly task.
We have a lot of moving equipment in the brewery, like our canning line, which has a constant flow of water. Our hot liquor tank (HLT - used to heat water) would normally have around 4 or 5 buckets (50+ kgs) of solid calcium per month forming within it. Our brewers would have to climb in and dig this out, much like you would have to descale your kettle, but on a much larger scale.
Making cleaning easier for our team will improve their working days and allow us to focus on other areas that we’re keen to improve by freeing up time. At the same time we’ll be cleaning more effectively and protecting our equipment for the long term.
With a neutral, softer, water profile, we have far more control earlier in the process. With the softer base, we can add the required salts and minerals as required, for example returning the water to its previous base for stouts.
How much does it cost to start a brewery? TIANTAI company is turnkey 2-150bbl beer micro brewery equipment manufacturer. Including malt miller, 2 vessel/ 3 vessel/ 4 vessel/ 5 vessel/ 6 vessel brew house equipment, brewing house, beer fermenters, brite beer tanks, beer bottling machine,beer canning machine, keg washer, keg filler, hopping machine, yeast propagation tank. We also supply all auxiliary brewery systems like steam heating pipe and valves, water treatment machine, filter, air compressor etc.
Derrick
Sales Manager
[email protected]
Tiantai Beer Equipment
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