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How to choose a brewery(brewing system / brewhouse)?

Apr. 28, 2021

According to the daily output, it can be divided into large-scale beer equipment, commercial beer equipment and home brewing beer equipment. Large-scale beer equipment—applicable to breweries, and has strict requirements on the design of venues and workshops. Commercial beer equipment-suitable for beer houses, bars, restaurants and other places. Home brewing equipment-suitable for individuals. The combination of large equipment is gelatinization tun, mash tun, lauter tun, kettle tank, whirlpool tank. Commercial beer equipment is usually equipped with 2 to 3 vessels, mainly traditional 2 vessels brewhouse, mobile 2 vessels brewhouse, combined 3 vessels brewhouse, split 3 vessels brewhouse,large-scale 4 vessels /5 vessels brewhouse, etc. Home brewing equipment is generally an all-in-one machine, this beer equipment has a small footprint, simple operation and cost-saving.

Traditional 2 vessels brewhouse & movable 2 vessels brewhouse

This beer equipment is widely used in the beer industry. It mainly consists of a mash tun/lauter tun,kettle/whirlpool tank.

Its main advantages are:
1.The brewhouse is simple and low investment.
2.The pipeline is simple and easy to operate.
3.The height of brewhouse is low, and there is no high requirement on the site height.

Combined 3 vessels brewhouse

This type of brewery t is generally a mash /kettle tun、lauter/whirlpool tank. The lauter/whirlpool tank is actually composed of an upper and lower two-layer structure. The upper layer is lauter tank and the lower layer is whirlpool tank.This type of brewhouse is popular in the US market.

Its main advantages are:

1.The heating area of the mash/kettle tank is large, and the heating speed is fast.
2.The location of the lauter tun is high, which can realize natural filtration (wort is filtered by gravity), the filtration speed is fast, and the wort is clear and bright. 
3. The vertical cylindrical groove design of the whirlpool tank, which can achieve a better separation effect for the the hop lees and the hot coagulum
4.When the wort is filtered, the mash/kettle tank can prepare the spent grains water, and the spent grains can be washed while filtering, which can shorten the mash time by 30-50 minutes, and the brewing batch can be up to 5 batches per day.

Customized 3 vessels brewhouse

There are many combinations of this kind of brewery, common combinations are as follows:

Mash tun + lauter tun +kettle/whirlpool tank
mash/lauter tun + kettle tank + whirlpool tank
mash/lauter tun+kettle/whirlpool tank+hot water tank

Its main advantages are:

1.    Flexible combinations to meet different customer needs.
2.    The height of the brewery is not high, and the requirements for the height of the site are not high
3.    Fast heating speed, reduce mash time

Large 4 vessels/ 5vessels brewhouse

This type of brewhouse has a volume of 2000L or more than 2000L. The combination of 4 vessels brewhouse is mash tun, lauter tun, kettle tank and whirlpool tank. The combination of 5 vessels brewhouse is gelatinization tank,mash tun, lauter tun, kettle tank and whirlpool tank. The large-scale brewhouse usually with auxiliary equipment such as screw conveyor, wort buffer tank, Hop filter tank, etc.

Its main advantages are:

1.Daily brewing batches of up to 5 batches.
2.The mash tun and kettle tun with new type of heating jacket to shorten the mash heating time, and the boiling strength can reach up to 8-10%, which is conducive to protein denaturation and aggregation and can reduce the content of undesirable taste substances.
3.Using screw conveyor to easily convey malt.
4.The wort buffer tank is added, which can realize the natural filtration of wort.

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