This brewery was manufactured in 2003 and started in operation that year. Planned beer production is 250 000 HL/ annum but due to lack of tank first stage was actually 120 000 HL / annum. The brewhouse has a potential to increase capacity up to 400 000 HL / annum.  Malt receiving system with related malt storage was made by Schmidt-Seeger and it has total storage capacity of 600 m3. Steinecker has designed and delivered all brewing and filtration process equipment and overall brewery control system. Brewing process is their Merlin process. The operation of the brewery ceased production in year 2008 and today the equipment has now been professionally removed to storage.

THE MAIN CHARACTERISTICS OF THIS BREWERY EQUIPMENT:

• Brewing capacity 10 brews / day, a’120 HL
• Cast output 120 HL, up to 16 plato
• Malt storage 600 m3
• Wet Malt Mill Steinecker Variomatic 4 t/h
• 2 Mash Tanks, Steinecker 120 HL each
• Merlin Tank, Steinecker 120 HL
• Whirlpool Steinecker
• Filtration Steinecker Kiselguhr, Handmann CCS sabilator, Westfalia separation

PLANT PROCESS DESCRIPTIONS

WATER SUPPLY

Water comes from city water network and goes to incoming water buffer tank then goes to water treatment plant. Water cleans through sand and coal filters. After cleaning and ph correction water goes to clean water buffer tank.

MALT STORAGE

Malt comes by railway. There is special reloading pit with Noria elevators that bring malt to Silos. Silos have pneumatic transport system, magnets and Vibrio sieve for stones and metal removing and have special equipment for silo reloading into the tracks. The plant has Steinecker wet mill with capacity 4 t/h.

BREWHOUSE

Steinecker Brewhouse has 2 mash tanks 120 hl each. Using 2 tanks increases capacity of brew house: it possible to run 2 brews in one time. After mash tank wort goes to filter. Then wort goes to buffer tank and waste (sparging) reloads to the bunker located under the filter and then screw conveyer remove it to outside storage bunker.

Wort from the bunker goes through heat exchanger to Merlin. Merlin – invited by Steinecker special method of wort boiling. It is cone shaped bottom tank. The cone is steam heated. Wort goes from the top of this cone and boils only thin layer of wort. Then wort goes to heat exchanger for cooling. The wort doesn’t boil all in the one tank because it is possible to cauterize (fry) the wort. During boiling hop adds to the wort. Then it goes to whirlpool where the wort circling round the tank, protein collects in the centre and removes to the drain.

Brewhouse has system that collects evaporated wort and condenses it. No air pollution. Also brewhouse has own CIP system.   The whole process from malt receiving to the brewing and CIP is fully automatic and managed by one operator only.

FERMENTATION AND FILTRATION

Cooled wort goes to fermentation department. Yeast adding to the wort and it stays in cooled CCTs for 5-9 day depending of the beer type. After first stage of fermentation most of the yeast drops down in to the cone part of CCT and removes to the other ССT or to utilizing. Then beer stays 14 days for maturity and after that goes to the filtration.

First stage of filtration – Separator – remove yeast from the beer. Then kieselguhr filter for fine filtering.  Also PVPP station for beer taste improvement, Carbo-blender for CO2 recovering and Handtmann CCS for beer stabilizing and for life time increasing. Filtered beer goes to BBT’s and stays 1 day before filling. If it is needed to add some flavour to the beer – it is mixed in BBT #4 with specially mounted Alfa Laval mixer.  Flavours are prepared in Mixing department.

All filtration process are fully automatic. System of brewing and filtering – it is one system with 2 working places. For the whole process of brew preparing it is needed only 2 operators per shift.

Price: On request Euros, GBP or USD ex works as is excluding dismantling, packing and loading.

The information provided is for guidance only and the buyer should check all details upon inspecting the line