Krones delivers two lauter tuns for Paulaner’s new facility in Munich-Langwied

Krones’ Steinecker plant in Freising has dispatched two Pegasus C lauter tuns, each holding 210,000 litres, to Munich-Langwied – packed in four halves, each measuring 11.50 m in diameter. Transported during six hours of the night as a special consignment with a convoy of four low-loaders, these components kicked off a delivery marathon, extending up to the end of January 2015, for Paulaner’s new brewery, which is currently taking shape on a 15-hectare site in the west of Munich and has initially been dimensioned for an output of 3.5 million hectolitres of beer (at its original premises, Paulaner was most recently brewing 3 mio hl).

In addition, four ShakesBeer mash kettles have been delivered, followed by wort coppers, whirlpools, product holding tanks and sour-wort tanks. At the beginning of November, installation commenced in Paulaner’s new brewhouse. A crane has to lower the brewing vessels, weighing up to 20 tons, through circular openings in the ceiling, with a clearance of just ten centimetres. The operator control level will be installed above this.

Krones is supplying the entire kit for two brewing lines, the yeast cellar, and integration of the fermentation and storage cellar, the filtration system, and the bright-beer tank cellar. The project features the Evoguard valve technology for no-leak switchovers, full-coverage automation from the grain intake to the bottling hall due to the Botec F1 process control system, and system dependability in the cellars due to the Route Control Tool, which uses preselected criteria to automatically identify the piping route it can use. In addition, the company is also supplying the entire piping for all the job sections involved, and is looking after the new brewery’s water treatment system, which utilises a Krones Hydronomic featuring state-of-the-art membrane technology.