How to choose beer brewing equipment?

What are some typical questions when setup a brewery? looking more closely at equipment needs. Brewhouses are all different, but certain questions can be applied to the majority of brewing projects.

By this point we know the size of brewhouse needed, number of beers to brew, styles for the core range and what pack types will be used. It’s then a case of tailoring the equipment list to the particular needs of the project.

First, it is necessary to determine that

Home brewing?

Or Setup a brewery?

If it is homebrew, there are three ways to choose from: brewing box brewing, malt leaching brewing and whole malt brewing.

Brewing box brewing: Just mix the syrup fluid and water, and can make a barrel of beer quickly after fermentation. Simple operation, only a simple brewing equipment can be completed, such as a fermented barrel (can be supplied), a specific gravity, a tube, a siphon, a stirring spoon, a thermometer, a pressure barrel, and brewing kettle.

Malt leaching brewing: Malt leaching is required to be added to water. According to the type of beer, the paste is added to the batch, and the obtained wheat sauce will be cooled and transferred to the fermentation barrel. The required equipment is a little bit more, such as the fermenter (configurable air plug), specific gravity, tube, siphon, stirring spoon, thermometer, pressure barrel, boiled pot, said, timer, cooling coil, or refrigerator If you need to add a special cereal, you need a cereal bag.

Narutomal malt Brewing: The Mash Tun, Lauter Tun, Kettle, Yeast activation, fermentation, BBT. More equipment, techniques, and knowledge are needed. Such as: boiling pot, called, thermal insulation pot (bottom water valve), stirring spoon, washing tube, cooling coil, measure cup, fermenter, tube, specific gravity, pressure barrel, a small malt mill. etc..

What Automation do you Need For your brewery?

One of the first steps is deciding how much automation is required for the project. Automation costs money so depending on the overall budget, there could be need to prioritize a few key areas.

Here are some of main areas where automation is used in craft beer brewing:

• Control mash and sparge water temperature and volumes
• Setting the wort collection temperature so it automatically adjusts itself on collection to FV.
• Foam sensor to cut off of boil so avoiding boil overs and automatic temperature set for the brew kettle.
• Control for rake speed and height
• Inline flowmeter from the lauter to the kettle, with screen readout and volume set.
• Mash tun temperature control and recipe input for automatic step mashing
• Wort speed control from lauter to kettle

The above list are the key areas I highlight, when a client ask about automation. They’ll help improve beer quality, brewhouse safety and are not so expensive. Depending on the budget, we can prioritize where automation is best used to fit a particular project needs.

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