Brewing Equipment

Specifications

1. 1.     Brew House Make & Capacity:

Steinecker1995 -1999

5 brews/d, 450-500 hl/brew. for 7000 kg malt, 3850 Raw grain

Cast-out quantity: 500 hl, 16,5° Plato

8 Brews/ 24 hours, annual capacity 0.85 Mhl

Controls are based on Siemens S5 and S7 PCS with, Botec Control system, PC Windows 2000 (Steinecker)

Laboratory yield = 97.1% (2.1.09 – 28.5.09, 837 brews)

The Brewhouse was installed in 1996 - 1999 by Steinecker to a high standard of control and automation and it contains the following main equipment:

Wet Conditioning Mill, capacity 20 tons/hour and it is fully overhauled 2008

Configuration, main characteristics:

1 wet mill plant: 20 t/h

1 mash tun kettle plant: V=550 hl

1 lauter tun plant: D=7200mm

1 weak wort tank: V=155 hl

1 pre run vessel: V=640 hl

1 CIP- water distributor

brew/whirpool kettle hot wort max. 520 hl (1 brew / 5 hours)

wort cooling 400 hl/h, 10°C

8        Mash Kettle, a jacketed vessel 550 hl

9        Enzyme Dosing pot and pump

10    Lauter Tun complete with spent grain tank and Pondorff pneumatic grains transfer. Tun capacity 814 Hl and diameter 7200 mm, Solids capacity of 7000 kg malt and 3850 kg raw grain. Complete with internal rakes and scrapers

11    Pre Run Vessel complete with internal heater , volume 640 hl

12    Wort Boiler/ Whirlpool, gross volume 757 hl net 520 hl

13    Wort Cooler with aeration – GEA supplied plate heat exchanger (YOM 1990) – rated at 450 Hl/hr cooling the wort from 95oC down to less than 10oC. Cooling achieved with brewing water and then chilled water. Aeration achieved by use of a sintered disc and static mixers, and controlled manually using mass flow meters

14    2 Hop Pellet Tanks

15    2 Hop Oil Tanks

16    Brewhouse Weak Wort Tank, volume 150 hl

17    Alfa-Laval Decanter, year 2008, capacity 100 hl / h

18    2 Weak Wort Tanks, volume approx 80 hl each

19    Gypsum Tank, volume approx 40 hl

20    Wet starch tank – volume 100 hl

21    Spent Grains Silo

22    Spent Grains Drying System

23    Bulk Acid tank – plastic tank with integral bund and dosing pumps

1. 2.     Fermentation and yeast processing:

All fermenters are cylindroconical vessels with dished tops and a working pressures of approximately 0.8 Bar. Cooling is achieved using glycol and all the fermenters having 2 jackets on the straight sides and some also having cone cooling. The exception being 5 vessels which have slanting bottoms in lieu of conical ones. These vessels were used predominately as conditioning tanks.

Generally there is the following fermentation tank volumes:

11 pcs CCT’s, gross volumes 1900 – 2000 hl

5 pcs Slanted Tanks, gross volumes 1200 – 2200 hl

The vessels are made in 1973 – 1980 and have the following characteristics::

5 x 2000 hl with 3 jackets each
6 x 2000 hl with 2 jackets each
2 x 1200 hl with slanting bottoms and 2 jackets
3 x 2200 hl with slanting bottoms and 2 jackets.

Yeast processing equipment:

Yeast Culture
2 x 20 hl tanks – glycol cooled
1 x 80 hl tank – glycol cooled

Yeast Storage: -
3 x 30 hl storage tanks

Yeast Plant, rated at 30 hl / hour, made by Alfa-Laval and consisting of the following equipment:

4 x 80 hl tanks
1 x Centrifuge

1 x Reactor unit
1 x Heat Exchanger
1 x Routing Valve Block

1. 3.      The Process Plant and Filtration

The process plant has the following main units:

24    Westfalia green beer centrifuge rated at 300 hl / h. The YOM was 1983, and the automation was renewed during the late 90’s

25    Alfa Laval beer chiller rated at 250 hl / h. YOM 2002

The Filtration plant is built around of a Schenk horizontal leaf KG filter and a Seitz Orion plate and frame polishing filter. The plant is rated at 300 hl / hour and it has the following main equipment.

26    KG bag emptying plant

27    Schenk filter, model ZHF-S50/40

28    Seitz Orion filter model OF100/200

29    150 hl beer Buffer tank

30    Alfa Laval beer chiller built in 2002, rated at 150 hl / hour

31    Dosing pot approx 3 to 4 hl on weigh cells and dosing pump

32    Dosing pot approx 3 to 4 hl with mass flow meters and dosing pump

33    2 x Dosing pot approx 3 to 4 hl with dosing pumps

Beer blending unit

The de-aerated water plant is an Alfa Laval Aldox unit built in 1990, and rated at 120 hl / hour it has the following main equipments:

34    Stripping Column

35    Water Chiller

36    UV Steriliser