What equipment is needed to build a brewery?

For loyal lovers of craft beer, opening a brewery may be the ultimate dream. You can provide delicious craft beer with friends. Many people are passionate about making craft beer. According to the Home Brewers Association, there are approximately 1.1 million homebrewers in the United States. In 2017 they produced more than 1.4 million barrels of beer. Of course, the number of people who transform their brewing hobby into craft beer brewers is still growing.

From hobby to founding craft brewery

From home brewing business to mature commercial craft beer business is a challenge. Any business idea requires planning, a lot of money, and perseverance to succeed. Starting a craft brewery requires a lot of equipment, as well as the knowledge and space to operate these pieces of equipment. Of course, the legal and licensing issues of the beer business also need to be considered.

Find the right equipment

The cost of brewery equipment is affected by many factors. For example, the daily output of beer, whether to buy new beer equipment or second-hand beer equipment. Of course, the size, service life, and material of the equipment you buy will also affect the price of brewery equipment. What kind of equipment you buy usually depends on the startup budget. I want to tell you that the price of Micet Craft’s brewery equipment is very competitive. If your budget is limited, you can try to contact us. We will provide you with the most suitable brewery equipment you.

Below we will list a variety of brewery equipment. These pieces of equipment are very important to start your own brewery. It contains information about each device’s purpose, function, and why it is important to your craft beer.

Grain miller

The first step in the brewing process is to grind the grains. Grain miller is used to grinding grains to ease preparation for the following steps. Milled grains are very important for brewing. Because finer grains can improve mashing efficiency. Of course, you can also extract more sugar from the wort during the fermentation process.

Friendly reminder: If the grain is crushed too finely, it is possible that the mashing will agglomerate and stick to the mashing tank in the later steps. In turn, it may affect the efficiency of later steps.

Water treatment machine

Water is the main ingredient of beer, and the quality of water directly affects the taste and feel of the beer. If you have low water requirements, you can use city drinking water directly. But, if you want to brew a variety of flavors of beer, it is recommended to use a water treatment machine. Also to meeting the standards of domestic water, the brewing water must also adjust the corresponding pH according to the beer style. The taste of beer brewed with different water will be different.

Brewhouse

The brewhouse is a container used for the mashing step in the brewing process. Brewhouse contains a mashing tank, lauter tank, kettle, whirlpool tank. Brewhouse has a variety of combinations. For example, 2 vessels, 3 vessels, 4 vessels. The Brewhouse is an insulated, temperature-controlled container. It can mix and heat starch and water. This is to convert the starch in the grain into sugar. Our Brewhouse is mirror-polished so that no bacteria will grow, and it can achieve 360° no dead angle cleaning.
What is mashing? Mashing is the act of mixing and heating grains and water used in beer. This is to break down the starch in the grain into sugar, which is eventually converted into alcohol in beer.

Brewhouse price

China’s high-end beer equipment manufacturer Micet Craft has developed Brewhouses with different capacities and different combinations. The price range of 1bbl-50bbl is 6000-100000 US dollars. This price is just a reference, please consult the engineers of Micet Craft for the specific price.

Fermentation tank

Fermentation is one of the most important processes in brewing beer. This is because yeast converts the sugar in the malt into alcohol and CO2. The beer fermentation tank is a container for the conversion of wort to alcohol. It allows your beer to ferment at a controlled temperature. We recommend that you use a conical fermentation tank. In this way, the yeast can be easily captured and taken out. This is because yeast can be reused. For the establishment of a brewery, the fermentation tank is one of the most important pieces of equipment. You need to choose a suitable fermentation tank based on the daily output.

The price of the fermentation tank

The price of a fermentation tank varies according to its capacity. Of course, the need for a jacket will also affect the price of the fermenter. The jacketed fermenter is convenient for temperature control. The price range of 1bbl-30bbl is 2000-8000 USD. Please note that you may need many fermentation tanks for fermentation.

Bright tank

After fermentation is complete, the beer needs to be transferred to a bright tank. This is to further mature the beer and make the beer clear. Of course, you can also add carbonate to the can to carbonate the beer. The beer in the bright jar is ready to drink.

Bright tank price

The price of the Bright tank is the same as the price of the fermentation tank, which varies according to the size of the capacity. The price range of 1bbl-30bbl is 1300-8000 USD.

Steam boiler

The Steam boiler powers the heating of the brewhouse. Of course, you can also choose direct flame heating.#069b42

Filtration system

The filtration step in brewing is to extract solids (such as live yeast) from the liquid and prepare it for filling. Although live yeast is edible. But because yeast is sensitive to temperature changes, it may change the taste of beer. So, the yeast must be stored in a place where the temperature can be easily controlled. The use of filtration technology to remove yeast and debris can ensure that the taste of the beer will not change easily.

Selection of filtration system

There are many types of filtration technology equipment on the market, which one you choose depends on your idea. The more popular filtering equipment is plate filters and candle filters.
Plate filters are the cheapest option for filtration. A plate filter is made up of vertical cloth-covered plates with hollow frames at a 90-degree angle. Beer is fed into the frames and solids are trapped by the cloth while the liquid goes through the filters and into tubes clean of any yeast.
Candle filters are another option that larger breweries prefer. A candle filter uses hollow, circular tubes with small openings in a cylindrical-shaped container. Then put the mixture of beer and diatomaceous earth into the container. In this container, the filter cleans the beer by trapping solids.

The choice of filtration equipment depends on the size and budget of the brewery. Remember, both of these filtering devices can solve the problem!

Heat exchanger

The heat exchanger can help raise or lower the temperature of the wort. This is very important when producing craft beer. A common form of heat exchanger uses many plates. Hot liquid flowing on one side heats the wort to make it boil. The other side introduces cold liquid to cool the wort to prepare for fermentation.
The use of heat exchangers can increase efficiency and save more wort. Of course, you can also increase the production of each batch of beer. Also, the heat exchanger reduces the amount of energy and emissions used. If you use a quality system, you can reduce the amount of water used in the entire brewing process.

Wort pump

The wort pump can help the “beer” be transported from one container to another sanitarily. For example, transfer beer from the fermentation tank to the Bright tank.

Packaging equipment

After the beer is brewed, the beer needs to be packaged. This helps maintain beer taste and cleanliness during transportation. The use of different packaging methods requires the use of different filling equipment. The use of kegs for packaging will must a keg filling machine and possibly a keg washing machine. The use of a can to package beer requires a can filling machine. If you use beer bottle filling, also to a bottle filling machine, you may also need a beer bottle labeling machine.

Glycol Cooling System

Beer tanks have cooling jackets. They are double-walled stainless-steel, insulated, and have large sections for the circulation of coolant-propylene glycol. A glycol chiller has a large reservoir as well as a refrigeration compressor. It keeps the glycol at 28-30° F. Glycol chilling keeps the beer stable and inhibits bacteria growth.

CIP Cleaning System

You will need a portable CIP (clean-in-pace) tank. It that you can use for housing your sanitation solution, caustic (alkaline cleaner for organics) wash, and acid washes (for mineral build-up). It may have a built-in circulation pump or can be paired with a portable pump.
You can use the vessels themselves as reservoirs, but the portable CIP tank streamlines the process.
With the CIP and pumps, you will sanitize all your production equipment as well as sanitize the other empty tanks. So that you can run many processes simultaneously: racking, filtering, wort production.
Without the right sanitation equipment and applicable chemicals. you should not even consider getting started with brewing a new batch of beer on-site.

PID Semi-auto Control System

Depending on how automated the brewery is, you may also have a centralized control panel for the brewery. The main control panel is optional. The controller can also be seen as a safety measure, which can be used to stop production and prevent accidents in the facility.

You may also need some brewery equipment accessories

Brewhouse Pipework
Yeast Adding Tank
Oxygenate Device
Hydrometer
Wort Thermometer
Grain Rake
Wort Hoses
Steam Condenser

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Get a turnkey solution for brewery equipment

Now you know all the essential brewing equipment needed to open your own brewery. You can start planning to brew your own beer. If you still don’t know where to buy this device, you can contact us. Micet Craft can provide you with a turnkey solution. looking forward to your cooperation!