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Mash Tun: Where crushed grains meet hot water, allowing enzymes to convert starches into fermentable sugars. Precise temperature control here is crucial.
Lauter Tun: Designed to separate the sweet wort from the spent grain husks. Often combined with the mash tun in smaller systems (Mash/Lauter Tun) for space and cost efficiency.
Brew Kettle: The vessel where the wort is boiled. This step sterilizes the wort, isomerizes hop acids (creating bitterness), drives off volatile compounds, and allows for flavor/aroma hop additions.
Whirlpool (Optional but Recommended): Often integrated into the kettle or a separate vessel. Creates a vortex to consolidate hop debris and protein solids (trub) in the center, allowing clearer wort to be drawn off to the chiller.
At our manufacturing facility, we specialize in designing brewing equipment that is efficient, intuitive, and easy for brewers to operate. The goal is a smooth brewing process with precise control of temperature and time during the critical mashing and boiling stages. Whether your brewery requires a traditional multi-tank system or compact, highly automated, all-in-one electric brewing equipment, the basic principles remain the same: efficient sugar extraction and a strong, clean boil. We typically recommend a configuration based on the specific beer recipes that a brewery plans to produce on a regular basis and the batch sizes they require.
Milling: preparing the grain (usually ground on-site using a dedicated grain mill).
Mashing: mixing the ground grain with hot water in the mash tun.
Lautering: in the filter tun, the liquid wort is separated from the grain solids.
Boiling: the wort is moved to the boil kettle, where hops are added for boiling.
Whirlpooling/Clarifying: solids are separated after boiling.
Cooling: the hot wort is quickly cooled by a chiller.
Transferring: the cooled wort is moved to the fermenter for yeast inoculation.
Each step requires reliable equipment working together.
A smooth and efficient winemaking process depends on effective liquid transfer and fast temperature control. Therefore, high-quality pumps and chillers become an essential powerhouse in wineries. Relying solely on gravity is often impractical and slow, especially in large wineries.
Liquid Transfer: Moves hot water (wine) to the wort tun, moves wort between vessels (mash tun -> kettle, kettle -> fermenter), and circulates wort during wort treatment or vortexing.
Efficiency: Liquid transfer is significantly faster than gravity, shortening the overall brewing cycle.
Data Point: Using a properly sized pump can reduce transfer time by 50-75% or more compared to gravity drainage.
Flexibility: Allows brewery layouts to be less stratified. Essential for CIP (cleaning in place) systems.
Key Considerations: Must be food grade (typically stainless steel pump heads), sized for flow and head (able to pump vertically), and easily disassembled for cleaning. Advanced systems may use two pumps to run multiple processes simultaneously.
Rapid Cooling: After boiling, hot wort (~212°F/100°C) must be cooled quickly to yeast pitching temperature (~60-75°F/15-24°C).
Preventing Contamination: The temperature zone between boiling and pitching is vulnerable to airborne bacteria and wild yeast. Faster cooling minimizes this exposure window.
Improving Beer Quality: Slow cooling increases Dimethyl Sulfide (DMS) production (cooked corn/vegetable flavor). Rapid cooling promotes a good “cold break” – the precipitation of proteins and tannins – leading to clearer bright beer.
Common Types:
Plate Chillers: Highly efficient, using thin plates to transfer heat between wort and cold water/glycol. The standard for commercial breweries.
Counterflow Chillers: A tube-within-a-tube design, also very efficient.
Immersion Chillers: Coils submerged in the wort; common in homebrewing but less efficient for larger volumes.
