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How to increase your brewery beer yield

The question at the forefront of every brewer’s mind: How can I increase my beer yield without compromising on flavour or quality? The answer: A Beer Centrifuge.

Increasing beer yield not only reduces waste, but it also allows you to get more creative with your beer recipe innovation (think hazy IPA’s and spontaneously fermented ales).

Investing in a beer centrifuge is the smartest way to get more out of your fermentation time without having to put in the cost of buying additional tanks. This piece of equipment enables brewers to greatly increase yield by saving more of the current beer brew and accelerating capacity with faster tank turnover. 

How Does It Work?

The Centrifuge utilises internal centrifugal force to speed up physical separation. This is achieved by using gentle acceleration in the bowl as well as the internal disc stack. The centrifugal force output rotates thousand of times per minute, which provides increased brew settling area to clarify and remove unwanted yeast, hops and protein solids from beer in a fraction of the time.

This cutting-edge technology enables breweries to achieve greater yields, meet shifts in demand and maintain their profitability. Used in pre-clarification, green beer separation, hot wort separation and beer recovery, they ensure minimal levels of oxygen pick up during passage through the separator and prevent contamination and bacteria transfer between beer batches.

In comparison to beer filters, the Centrifuge provides faster clarification and/or polishing without removing the wanted volatile aromas and flavours present in your beer recipe. Centrifuges are much less prone to clogging than filters and have the added ability of increasing beer recovery from tank bottoms. The Centrifuge increases yield by up to 6-10%, a huge return on investment, especially for brewers looking to increase production to meet growing demand.

Reduce Waste With The Centrifuge

Centrifuge it works like this: When yeast, hops, fruit puree, or any other ingredient is added into a beer, they’ll eventually fall to the bottom of your tank, absorbing liquid along the way. Essentially, these particles are soaking up your money; when those solids get dumped, a portion of your beer is lost along with the wastage.

Solid-loss wastage is a major concern for many micro and commercial breweries . If the excess particles are not drawn out of the brew during fermentation it can affect the brew’s long-term stability and the final product clarity and flavour for your customer.  

The Centrifuge has been shown to be a more efficient and cost-effective method of processing out excess particles. The equipment’s centrifugal force does not allow these solids build up, while still infusing your beverage with the essential aromatics and oils in your product.

The Key Benefits 

Centrifugation provides breweries with swift beer clarification with no loss of aroma

High beer separation efficiency combined with energy efficient operation

Increased clarification capacity: reduced fouling of filters with pre-clarification

High efficiency beer separation enabling quicker turnover of fermentation tanks

Reduced product losses: beer centrifugation results in more concentrated solids compared to gravity settling

Patented beer brewing equipment and hermetic design leads to low to zero oxygen pick up

The Centrifuge is an essential piece of cutting-edge equipment which is suitable for breweries of all sizes. Used in pre-clarification, green beer separation, hot wort separation and beer recovery, The centrifugal force system ensures minimal levels of oxygen pick up during passage through the separator and the highest standards of hygiene.

Clarification through separation helps increase the stability of the final beer product. The Centrifuge ensures gentle product handling through the utilisation of a unique hermetic feed design. Turbidity measurement system and bowl speed adjustment functionality allows the brewer to achieve crystal clear beers free from debris, while maintaining the flexibility to craft hazy beers.

If you are planning to open a brewery. TIANTAI BrewTech could help you answer your questions and supply the brewery equipment system. We supply 2-150bbl complete beer brewing brewery equipment system including malt milling equipment, brewhouse equipment, fermenters, brite beer tanks, beer bottling machine,beer canning machine, beer kegging machine, hopping machine, yeast propagation equipment. We also supply all auxiliary brewery systems like steam heating pipe and valves, water treatment, filter, air compressor etc. Everything in brewery are all in our list.

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