What equipment is needed to make craft beer

 What equipment is needed to make craft beer

If you feel that craft beer is delicious!

If you think craft beer might be a business opportunity!

If you decide that this is a career worthy of your life, you want to do it.

Then our company will analyze in detail how to buy a set of craft beer equipment for you. Start your brewing journey.

Beer equipment needs to go through a relatively complicated process from procurement to installation:

First of all: positioning (purely a hobby, as a career)

Second: Determine your production capacity and find a suitable brewing venue (bar, restaurant, beer house, factory, or your own small studio, etc.)

Finally: choose your own equipment (according to the brewing process of beer and the purpose of each process)

Determine the equipment system according to the beer production process:

Shredding system

Squeeze the malt to ensure that the bran is not broken

There are two types of small craft beer malt grinders, one is a disc-type grinder, and the other is a double-roller grinder. A large number of experiments have proved that the effect of using the stick crusher is significantly higher than that of the grinding disc grinder.

Saccharification system:

The main function is to mix malt powder with water and maintain a certain temperature and time for protein decomposition and starch saccharification (including gelatinization) equipment, and to obtain clear wort

Technical points: It can heat, filter, control temperature and time.

Pictured: Combination form of beer saccharification system

The main function is to mix malt powder with water and maintain a certain temperature and time for protein decomposition and starch saccharification (including gelatinization) equipment, and to obtain clear wort

Technical points: It can heat, filter, control temperature and time.

Pictured: Combination form of beer saccharification system

Practice has proved that for hotels below 1000L, land occupation should be taken into consideration, and the two-body and three-vessel saccharification system is the most cost-effective in terms of saccharification process, saccharification efficiency, and operation, and the cost performance is relatively high.

Saccharification heating system:

It is mainly used for heating the wort saccharification and boiling process (energy saving, high efficiency and good effect are the principles)

There are currently two heating methods on the market:

(Preferable) Steam heating: high heating efficiency, wort is relatively evenly heated

(Second choice) electric heating tube heating: local heating, low efficiency, easy to paste the pot (stirring can be avoided during the heating process)

Fermentation system:

Provide a suitable fermentation temperature, requiring temperature control, pressure control, aeration, easy to discharge yeast

At present, there are horizontal fermentation tanks, vertical fermentation tanks, and stacked fermentation tanks on the market, which should be determined according to the individual site conditions. If the site conditions are satisfactory, try to choose a vertical fermentation tank, which is easy to operate, and the yeast is easier to settle, which is more inclined to sewage.

Cooling System:

Cooling of saccharification wort, cooling and control of fermentation temperature

At present, the most common cooling methods in the market are (one-stage cooling and two-stage cooling)

The one-stage cooling investment is relatively large, but it saves energy and is suitable for large, medium and small breweries with continuous production

Two-stage cooling is more suitable for hotel-type small craft brewing equipment

CIP cleaning system:

As the name suggests, it is something that cleans the equipment. I will not explain the medium and large CIP here; there are mainly two types of small beer equipment.

One is CIP cleaning scale (alkali tank, disinfection tank, cleaning pump, trolley). It is best to buy this if the economic capacity allows, at least the lye can be recycled and reused to avoid waste and easy to clean.

One is cleaning the pump: not very convenient, the lye is wasted

Control System:

Currently common systems for craft brewing equipment:

Instrument control system: simple operation, equivalent to manual, low investment, low cost, only simple temperature setting can be realized.

PLC control system: easy to operate and programmable. It can record the temperature curve, realize automatic control (the program can be programmed according to the specific needs of customers), realize the segmental control of the saccharification temperature, and have a high degree of automation.

Final summary:

Communicate more before purchasing equipment to understand professional capabilities

Compare more to see if the overall configuration is reasonable

The main equipment depends on the material: 304

Auxiliary equipment depends on the manufacturer (refrigerators, pumps, and motor heat exchangers are produced by major brand manufacturers. Although these are expensive, they are easy to use and can save energy in the long run).

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