Our technical services cover everything you need to transform your brewery dream into a real functioning brewery. Whether building an entirely new brewery or modifying an existing one, we work closely with you, you’re local architects and engineers, and our trusted network to develop a brewery that can meet projected sales volumes and whose layout is designed for optimal material and process flow. Depending on the scale and nature of your project, our services can entail daily on-site project management and support, or a series of site visits combined with remote support.

We manage all brewing and packaging process engineering, utilities and documentation. We work with suppliers, architects, brewery equipment and civil engineers to create customized site and equipment layout drawings, process flow diagrams (PFDs), and piping and instrumentation diagrams (P&IDs) and even a recommended spare parts list to ensure all elements are considered and seamlessly integrated. We also consider the updated packaging and utilities needed in the case of an expanding brewery, providing a documentation package that is customized to your needs.

We take care of all brewery equipment (process, packaging, and laboratory, QC equipment, utility and supporting) and supplies (ingredients, packaging materials, and others) selection and procurement, including evaluation of vendor proposals and negotiation of final purchase agreements. We also review supplier drawings, equipment layouts, piping drawings, and integrate them into the master plan.

We join hands with contractors, trades and construction management firms to oversee development and construction/renovation of the site and building, to make sure that all brewery systems are sufficiently supported and housed.
 

We coordinate and oversee the installation, commissioning and start-up of all equipment (both new and retained), source spare parts and develop start-up procedures; informative operating and quality manuals can also be made for the brewery. We work closely with vendors, contractors and traders to perform dry and wet test(including trial brewing and product testing), as well as providing the required performance evaluation to ensure the new and retained brewery system operation in the intended performance specification and are ready too really take on the challenge of daily operations

We provide complete system design, commissioning and operational readiness for the following areas:

Grains Handling and Milling

· Pneumatic conveying Screw conveyors.

· Bucket elevators Dust collection.

· Explosion suppression Grain silos.

· Scale hoppers Malt mills.

· Hammer mills, including all instrumentation and controls.

Brewhouse

· Mash mixer Cereal cooker Lauter tun.

· Mash filter.

· Brew receivers Kettle.

· Whirlpool Wort cooler.

· Hot and cold brewing liquor tanks Trub handling.

· Spent grains handling.

· Kettle stack heat recovery systems.

· Wort stripping including all related pumps, piping systems, valves, instrumentation and controls.

· Complete steam & condensate piping systems design, including control valves, steam traps, vacuum breakers, air vents and condensate return systems.

Spent Grains Handling

· Spent grains storage tanks.

· Dense phase conveying systems, (e.g. Pondorff, Flex-Auger).

· Screw conveying systems.

· De-watering systems.

· Drying systems including all related piping and utility systems, instrumentation and controls.

Yeast Management and Propagation

· Wort aeration/oxygenation facilities Yeast storage tanks.

· Surplus yeast storage and truck loading facilities.

· Yeast propagation facilities.

· Yeast monitoring and injection facilities.

· C.I.P and sterile steam S.I.P facilities, including all related pumps, piping, cooling systems, valves, instrumentation and controls.

· Design of facilities to maintain a sterile environment in yeast handling rooms including HEPA filtered / U/V sterilized positive pressure air supplies and building air cooling and dehumidification systems.

Fermentation and Ageing

· CCT tank farms for either uni-tank or multi-use systems CO2 collection facilities.

· CO2 Counter-pressure facilities.

· Tank CIP under CO2 counterpressure Dropping coolers.

· Collection and distribution valve manifolds including all related pumps, piping, cooling systems, valves, instrumentation and controls.

Filtration and Bright Beer

· DE Filtration

· PVPP Filtration.

· Cross flow filtration.

· Trap filters.

· Ingredient injection systems.

· DCW blending.

· Carbonation systems.

· Touch-up cooling systems including all related pumps, piping, cooling systems, valves, instrumentation and controls.

· Bright beer tanks sizing.

· Bright beer distribution valve manifolds.

Brewery Utilities

· Ammonia refrigeration systems.

· Reciprocating, twin-screw, mono-screw compressors.

· Variable speed control.

· Evaporation condensers with floating pressure control.

· High and low pressure receivers.

· Dump traps.

· Air eliminators.

· Control systems for handling widely varying process loads including all related pumps, and piping systems

· Glycol distribution systems with control systems for widely varying process loads including, ammonia/glycol chillers, including all related pumps, piping, valves, instrumentation and controls.

· Steam and condensate systems, boilers, deaerators.

· Brewing water deaeration systems.

· Energy and water optimization.

CIP Systems

· From small local single systems to centralized CIP systems, including design of systems for line CIP, tank CIP, tank CIP under CO2 counter-pressure.

· Automated systems including multiple simultaneous CIP loops, automated tank make-up, in-line heat exchangers to minimize temperature shock to sensitive equipment, priority based loop selection control systems.

· Concentrated acid and caustic handling systems, including all related pumps, piping, heating systems, valves, instrumentation and controls.

Piping Systems

· Piping systems design from simple hose based systems for craft breweries, through manual piping systems with jumper panel connections, to fully automated double seat matrix style valving systems, for all areas of the brewing operation.

Control Systems

· Full range of control systems from local, manual system controls, through automated centralised control systems to recipe driven oversight control of automated systems.

We bring complete system design, equipment procurement, commissioning and operational readiness for the following areas:

Specialized packaging, utilities and automation engineering for packaging operations.

Packaging

Packaging (can, bottle, and keg) line installations including:

· Conceptual layout, budgeting and planning.

· Line and equipment specifications and performance metrics Sourcing and procurement.

· Factory acceptance testing (FAT).

· Performance acceptance testing (PAT).

· Installation, commissioning, start up and performance qualification services

Packaging line upgrades, including:

· Line assessment (V-curve analysis, line speed up opportunity analysis, efficiency performance improvement, loss and waste analysis, brand/pack change over analysis ).

· Filler supply manifolds.

· Beer push-out systems.

· Beer on beer brand change systems.

· On-line to filler blending and dosing systems including all related pumps, piping, valves, instrumentation and controls.

· Distribution manifolds.

· On-line blending systems.

Brewery Utilities

· Refrigeration systems.

· Reciprocating, twin-screw, mono-screw compressor.

· Variable speed control.

· Dump traps.

· Air eliminators.

· Control systems for handling widely varying process loads including all related pumps, and piping systems

· Glycol distribution systems with control systems for widely varying process loads including, ammonia/glycol chillers, including all related pumps, piping, valves, instrumentation and controls.

· Steam and condensate systems, boilers, deaerators, demineralizer.

· Centrifuge systems.

· Filtration systems.

· Brewing water deaeration systems.

· Ro plant, STP.

· Energy and water optimization.

CIP Systems

· From small local single systems to centralized CIP systems, including design of systems for line CIP, tank CIP, tank CIP under CO2 counter-pressure.

· Automated systems including multiple simultaneous CIP loops, automated tank make-up, in-line heat exchangers to minimize temperature shock to sensitive equipment, priority-based loop selection control systems.

· Concentrated acid and caustic handling systems, including all related pumps, piping, heating systems, valves, instrumentation and controls.

Piping Systems

· Piping systems designed for your purpose, from simple hose-based systems for craft breweries, through manual piping systems with jumper panel connections, to fully automated double seat matrix style valving systems, for all areas of the brewing operation.

Control Systems

· Full range of control systems from local, manual system controls, through automated centralized control systems to recipe driven oversight control of automated systems.