How does the hopgun work?

Oct 21, 2016
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How does the hopgun work?

Firstly, the hopgun is aimed at not only adding hop flavor and aroma to beer, but conserving expensive hop usage.

Hops are first poured through a big manhole on the top of the hopgun (of course the system has been completely sterilized from previous usage). The beer in fermenters or brite tans will be pumped into the hopgun and out again either back into the same tank or into another separate tank. Of course, the pump here with VFD (frequency drive). The shape of the hopgun with maybe two inlets, one is clockwise, another is anticlockwise. Then there will help to form a vortex in the thin tank, leading to an intense and efficient contact between the beer and hops, which facilities quick dissolving in a short time.

While the whole dissolving process is taking place, it is also available for the brewmasters switching to different inlets to use the hopgun like a hydro-cyclone, and then the solids in beer will be strained out.

Edited by Laura
Sales Manager in Tiantai Company
Email: trade@cnbrewery.com