Alpina in Abakan is commissioning a fully automated 60 hl brewhouse

A further Compact-Star™ designed for a medium-sized brewery was successfully commissioned at the brewery OOO Alpina in Abakan (Russian Federation). The 60 hl brewhouse entirely made of stainless steel consists of a mash tun kettle, a lauter tun equipped with Lauterstar™ technology, a Whirlpool/wort kettle with internal boiler and a condensate collection tank.

The interaction of the adjustable pre-masher and flow-optimized agitator paddles in the mash tun kettle provides for a very homogeneous mash with minimum oxygen uptake. The mash tun kettle is heated with modern templates.

In the Whirlpool/wort kettle, a steam-heated internal boiler with spreader ensures an effective evaporation without forced circulation by pumps and the related mechanical stress. The design of the internal boiler allows safe trub separation in this combined kettle.

The Compact-Star is rounded off by a one-stage wort cooling system with subsequent wort aeration, a CIP plant for cleaning the brew kettles and wort pipes, a brewing water supply system, complete with pumps, fittings and instrumentation. The brewhouse is fully automated and offers high flexibility in production demands at low staff requirement.

With the configuration of three vessels, the Russian brewery disposes of a brewhouse capacity of up to five brews per day. The modular design allows to increasing the daily production capacity at any time. Hence, by simple connection of a pre-run vessel, OOO Alpina could already produce up to seven brews per day. Expansion of the system by use of a separate Whirlpool instead of a combined kettle, would allow a capacity of up to nine brews per day, or else using the wet milling system Millstar™ instead of dry milling would upgrade to 12 brews per day.

All specified possibilities for a plant expansion can be realized at the brewery OOO Alpina at any time, because the required installation space was already taken into account during project planning. A platform in front of the vessels is provided not only for kettle operation and access to the operating panel, but serves as pipe support of the connected process media steam, condensate, water as well as CIP supply and return. Additional vessels for later upgrade can be easily connected using the described pipe line route.