A well-rounded piece of work

The modernized brewhouse of Kulmbacher Brauerei AG was put into operation with the push of a button by the Bavarian Minister of Economic Affairs, Dr. Otto Wiesheu, in September 2004. This event was preceded by careful planning of the new technology in order to ensure the high quality of the 28 beer types in future. The decision for dynamic low-pressure boiling guarantees not only economic and productive efficiency, but also optimum wort composition.
Architecturally, the new brewhouse in combination with the fermenting and storage cellar, which is currently being rebuilt, is an appealing masterpiece. Through a glass front, visitors and passers-by can watch the complex brewing process. The architecture firm Schramm in Kulmbach was responsible for the architectural planning.8 K/min. ...

Surfactant-free concept for a brewery

Unreservedly suitable for consumption and long shelf life are of primary importance for product usage. Quality-assuring measures such as cleaning and disinfection accompany the processes of production, filling and packaging and these should be reproducible, documentable and validatable. This paper describes a flexible cleaning system involving only a few products, designed to cover the whole beer production process.

Within the context of process-specific hygiene concepts, efficient cleaning and disinfection is meantime standard in beer production. Cleaning and disinfection of surfaces coming into contact with product, such as e.g. ...

Brewhouse automation at Grupo Modelo, Mexico upgraded

Close to a record|Without interrupting production, a team of specialists from the Ziemann Group and Siemens AG succeeded in switching over the entire process control equipment of a brewing line in the Grupo Modelo brewery plant in Obregon/Mexico on to the new Braumat V5.3 standard. The most modern equipment is now in use in Obregon for production - also for the European market.

With a 41.9 million hl production volume (2003), Grupo Modelo holds seventh place in the current ranking of the largest breweries of the world. Apart from being well positioned on the domestic market and on the US American market, one product accounts for a lot of this success - the Group’s worldwide top seller: "Corona Extra".g. in terms of product and raw materials traceability. ...

SchoKo process and heat balance in breweries

The "SchonKoch" (gentle boiling) process from Kaspar Schulz Brauereimaschinenfabrik is used in over 25 breweries. The effect on the overall heat balance in breweries has repeatedly come in for criticism in this process. Taking Private Brewery M.C. Wieninger GmbH & Co. KG as an example, the ramifications of the SchoKo process on the overall heat balance of a brewery were investigated.

Using the SchoKo process, an exis- ting wort boiling system can be extended by adding a vacuum evaporator requiring little space. Fig. 1 shows a schematic diagram for such a boiling system. After lautering, the wort is heated to about 1 K below boiling temperature in the existing wort copper. This is followed by a hot holding phase of 30 to 45 minutes during which the wort does not boil. ...

New cold station com-missioned during ongoing production in Hanoi

The Hanoi Beer Company Brewery (HABECO) in Hanoi, Vietnam has been completely modernised in a number of stages while continuing to operate at full production. In the execution of this project, the importance of interpersonal factors as well as technical competence and experience in production and in project management was shown to be very important in bringing a project of this order of magnitude to a successful conclusion.

People from a total of 14 nations were involved in the project on both sides. The "Hanoi Beer Company" project has another unusual feature. During the complete rebuild and the associated doubling of capacity to 1 million hl/a, carried out with turnkey responsibility by A. The project was carried out in stages. ...

Novel CIP-Disinfection using salicylic acid

In this article a brief overview is given about the rinseability and thus the residue behavior of "neoseptal® OS" or its ­constituents based on analysis. Furthermore, it was tested under conditions of disinfecting practice and in-vitro, whether through reaction of salicylic acid, formation of chlorophenols can be demonstrated.

The novel disinfectant neoseptal® OS of the chemical plant Dr. Weigert GmbH & Co. KG, Hamburg, Germany, was introduced into practice and tested during 6 months under real-life conditions. Based on its overall concept it poses an alternative to established peracetic acid or halogen acetic acid preparations.g. benzene or phenol. They are characterized by very low flavor threshold values (1).g.5 even in the usage solution of approximately 1%. ...

Critical remarks on determination of brewhouse yield

Brewhouse Yield - In Brauwelt 6/04 pp 418 - 421 Professor H. Miedaner presents the challenge of how to determine the exact brewhouse extract loss. The topic is of interest to any brewhouse operation, small or large, and this topic disserves to be followed up. The following comments are therefore to be considered as addition to the views presented by Prof. Miedaner. therefore more comments.

Challenge Measurements of extract losses in brewhouse operations have over the years been attempted in various ways and with varying degrees of success, and Prof. Miedaner lists several problems not yet overcome (1):
--Hot wort yield has been defined through the Munich agreements of 1962/65 (2)
--The wort contraction factor 0.3 %.
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A winter’s tale

When the going gets tough - Increased consolidation and aggressive sales promotions, rapacious bargain hunters and declining demand: Did the international brewers know what they were in for when they entered the German beer market?

It’s a funny old world. For months a rumour had gone round that the marriage of true minds between Germany’s hotelier-to-brewer Schörghuber and Heineken had hit the rocks. But come October and there were smiling faces all around when their vassals announced the acquisition of the Fürstenberg brewery - a brewery established in the 13th century and situated in the Black Forest. In 2003 Fürstenberg brewery, which was owned by the House of Fürstenberg, had sold 700,000 hl of beverages and achieved a turnover of EUR 57 million. Heineken got lucky.

Stromboli - a "volcano" on the fast lane

Since the new "Stromboli" wort boiling system was introduced in the middle of last year, many new results and experiences in commercial operation in breweries have become available. Furthermore, numerous retrofits and new plants are in the planning stage or under construction. The results from commissioning show how Stromboli more than meets the specifications of customers in terms of wort quality and improved energy utilisation.

Critical remarks on determination of brewhouse yield

This paper is an attempt at critically assessing previously known possibilities for determination of yield and highlighting the risk of errors.

The purpose of a brewhouse is to produce wort of impeccable quality. For economic reasons, the focus is on maximum extract yield from malt. The totality of all soluble substances recovered from malt is defined as yield. There are various possibilities for determining such extract recovery or brewhouse yield. With increasing complexity, the information value decreases on account of increasing risk of errors. This paper is an attempt at critically assessing previously known possibilities for determination of yield and highlighting the risk of errors. The procedure is described, inter alia, in the Munich Agreements of 1962 (1)..
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Using flash evaporation in pressure and vacuum ranges Industrial experience on a 1000 hl scale

Over past decades, cast volume in brewhouses of many breweries has been growing continuously. External and internal boilers have also been getting correspondingly larger, matching the required evaporation rates in keeping with the volume of wort coppers. What has not kept pace, however, is the ratio between cast volume and free wort surface area (wort level) to evaporate unwanted aroma substances.