Compact brewhouse for specialty breweries

Compact-sized frame-based construction, plus standardised vessels for the mashing, lautering and wort-boiling processes, are the salient features of the latest innovation from Steinecker: the compactly dimensioned CombiCube B brewhouse for an annual production output of up to 150,000 hl.

The target group for this new combination of different vessels for the brewing process, is firstly small and mid-tier breweries who intend to modernise their kit. But it is also aimed at breweries with larger annual outputs who wish to produce their seasonal and specialty beers in a separate brewing process, independently of their principal brands. With an output of up to six brews a day, the compact brewhouse can serve here as a complement to the larger systems. Depending on the mashing process selected, the maximum of four vessels in the compact brewhouse can be utilised at will either as a mash kettle, a mash/wort copper, a lauter tun, or a mash/lauter tun, complemented by the whirlpool.

The vessels feature technological developments already familiar from the large-size vessels of Steinecker’s technology: the agitator of the mash kettle, the design of the heating surfaces in the ShakesBeer, the Stromboli Venturi jet for the wort-boiling process, and the Pegasus raking blades, which ensure uniform permeability of the grain bed. With vessel sizes of between 2.5 and 3.5 metres, the individual brewing processes in the compactly dimensioned CombiCube B brewhouse are elegantly integrated for convenient handling by a single employee. Simple operator interventions are crucially facilitated by the higher-order Botec process control system.

The prefabricated piping system, and its integration into a frame-based construction, mean short commissioning times for the brewery concerned, enabling the brewhouse to be installed on a minimised footprint. Thanks to precisely matched vessel sizes, the process steps inside the brewhouse achieve optimised technological harmonisation for the brew sizes of 50 to 100 hl. The high quality of the beers and a manageable investment budget are ideally combined in Steinecker’s compact brewhouse concept for users with an annual production quantity of up to 150,000 hl.