Comac R&D department has developed a new technology for keg linear filling that outdoes the traditional machines and combines the advantages of both rotary and in line systems. The new model is called HS6T and has a nominal output of 250 kegs/hour: three different stations for pre-washing, washing and filling, each one equipped with six heads carrying out the same treatment on six kegs at the same time, fed by a special keg introduction-ejection system.

At the Kulmbacher Brauerei AG, the new KHS filling and packaging line fills the wide variety of beer that is the brewery’s brand spectrum in both 0.33 l and 0.5 l glass bottles.

Novozymes’ latest offering, Ultraflo Max, challenges traditional filtration enzymes and provides a unique solution to tackle filtration problems experienced by brewers. Lautering, or mash filtration, and beer filtration are two distinctive steps in the brewing process. Both of these filtration procedures are influenced by the chemical composition of the wort, or the beer, and therefore depend on the quality of the raw material. As inconsistencies in either filtration step can cause a significant increase in production costs, the scientific background of filtration problems has been of importance to brewers for a long time.

As a mid-sized family business with an emphasis on tradition, the apple wine producer Possmann GmbH & Co. KG in Frankfurt expects to maintain its competitiveness through the utilization of modern state-of-the-art technology. Rapid amortization of its investments is essential. The different types of returnable bottles on the market today require a high degree of flexibility. Syscona Kontrollsysteme GmbH, located in Freudenberg, Germany was able to offer the best price to performance ratio with its newly developed empty bottle inspection equipment.

Heating a beverage prior to bottling is referred to as flash pasteurization. The construction and mode of operation of a flash pasteurizer for heat treating beverages is briefly discussed in the following article, including the arrangement of the plate and frame heat exchangers. The changes in pressure brought about by raising and lowering the product temperature are also addressed. The necessity and cost for the inclusion of a buffer tank for use in conjunction with a flash pasteurizer is also discussed.

Since its foundation in 1864, the Sarajevo Brewery has always put emphasis on

What began as a small brewpub in 1824 in Grevenstein in the state of Saarland, Germany, has expanded to become the Brauerei C. & A. Veltins GmbH & Co. Veltins focuses investment on technology as a means to optimize production while preserving product quality. The brewery has selected a new microwave-based sensor as a process solution for monitoring product levels in bright beer tanks.

In May 2006, the Švyturys Brewery in Klaipeda, a brewery rich in tradition, commissioned a PET line for bottling beer in 1 and 2 litre containers. This was the first PET bottling line for beer to be planned and delivered in its entirety by Kosme. The brewery, with an annual output of 700 000 hl, has invested in new options for supplying the domestic and Eastern European beer markets with PET beer packages, thus complying with market demands. At a rating of 9000 containers an hour, the line is an economical way to start with PET.

How to give a brewery a new lease on life that has been dormant for a decade? You can brush up your Brothers Grimm fairy tales or bring in Brewtech from Hamburg. After several failed attempts to find a foreign knight in shining white armour to part the bush and kiss Port Harcourt’s Pabod brewery awake, the Rivers State government and Germany’s management and technical consultancy Brewtech have done it themselves. Unfortunately, only days before their Grand beer was to hit the market, Heineken stopped them in their tracks with an injunction. Blame it on Nigeria? No, call it competition the rough way.

The first part of this article introduced Kopparbergs brewery and described the new crossflow filtration (Brauwelt International No. 6, 2007, S. 381). The second part focuses on the new beer stabilization system that has been started up at the same time in Kopparbergs brewery.

Conventional decanters and other centrifuges often have had problems to achieve satisfactory separation results with hardly sedimentable subsances for their specific properties. The presented high performance centrifuge offers all the advantages of a traditional decanter and those of a disk stack centrifuge. This article compares the new separation technology with existing technologies.