"Cold filtered" beer Benefits and opportunities for the brewing industry?
Over 70 million hl of beer are "cold filtered" with membrane filters annually worldwide. Breweries in the Far East account for the largest portion. Activities of German breweries are comparatively modest. Can we learn from breweries in the Far East? Using various examples, the following article emphasises not just equipment used for membrane filtration but also covers the benefits and advantages of this technology from a marketing standpoint.
In the German brewing sector, the technology of membrane filtration as a method for extending the shelf-life of beer has been discussed for more than 10 years. It has been technologically praised, at other times dismissed because of excessively high operating costs, and then again very often hailed as a future-oriented technology.
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