Category: Brewing Equipment
Brewery Equipment explores all the equipment needed to produce quality craft beer throughout the brewing process including brewhouse, cellar, packaging, lab, quality control and more.
Expert Topic Understanding Online Brewery Auctions
The emails seem to come a bit more frequently these days. Previously used brewery equipment going on the auction block. Get your bids ready. Own a piece of a brewery’s history and make it part of your future. Business auctions are nothing new, of course, but the last few years of trouble for the brewing industry couple with the sheer volume of brewers has meant that more stainless steel equipment than ever before is coming to the marketplace.
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Brewing Equipment featured expert topic supported by California Craft Brewers Association
The 2024 California Craft Beer Summit is the most important event of the year for California Brewers or anyone interested in building their business in the craft beer industry. The 2024 Summit will be held in Sacramento on March 12-14, 2024.
Expert Topic Questioning the Pros and Cons of New vs. Used Equipment
Take a scroll through social media these days, or browse the forums on this site, or simply open your email and you’re likely to come across previously used brewing equipment for sale or that is going up for auction. For the breweries where expansion or adding extra capacity is in the cards, there is a lot of choice and a lot to consider. What are some of the things you should consider when making the decision on purchasing something new versus previously owned? Here are some questions that can help you make the decision.
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Expert Topic Considering Automation In Your Brewhouse
Brewing is often a physical job, one involving interactions with hot elements, slick surfaces, and heavy machinery. Craft brewers have long touted the “hand-crafted” nature of their lower volume operations, suggesting it somehow improves the flavor or character of the beer. When it comes to most brewery operations, however, the intense manual labor involved in moving liquid around a brewery just stresses the bodies of workers rather than improves a beer’s body or nose.
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Expert Topic Assessing Lab Needs, What You Need, What To Wish For
Starting a brewery is an exciting, nerve-wracking, whirlwind experience for many, with much of the focus on finding the perfect location, keeping costs down during buildout, and crafting recipes and brand identities. Breweries also need to keep an eye on beer quality as the competitive beer marketplace won’t support off-flavors and aromas for long. That means focusing efforts on critical but less visible operations, such as testing your brewery’s beer.
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News Six Craft Brewery Equipment Suppliers Merge into Lotus Beverage Alliance
Six U.S. craft beverage equipment suppliers have merged in a $100 million deal to create Lotus Beverage Alliance. The six merged companies are Alpha Brewing Operations, GW Kent, Twin Monkeys, Stout Tanks and Kettles, Brewmation and Automated Extractions.
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Expert Topic Beyond the Basics in Brewery Sanitation
By now, anyone even remotely associated with the brewing industry should know that sanitation is the key to success. Not only does it show a commitment to quality but it also keeps customers safe. There are tried and true standard operating procedures that good breweries follow to keep unwanted germs and microbes at bay, but what does the future of sanitation look like?
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Expert Topic Putting Sanitation First in the Brewery
Once, a few years ago, a friend was sharing a experience after visiting New Glarus Brewing Company. The brewery was so clean, they said, that you could drop a fried egg on the floor and pick it up a few minutes later and eat it without worry. The surfaces were so clean that no grit would touch the egg.
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Expert Topic Making a Brewery Pasteurization Decision
Pasteurization has been in the brewing space since it was invented more than 150 years or so, but it is only in the last several years that small brewers have begun to embrace the technology. This is for a variety of reasons including consumer popular recipes that benefit from the process as well as increased availability and scalability on the marketplace.
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Expert Topic Deciding on New vs. Pre-owned Equipment
Running a brewery, even without designs on growing the overall footprint, output, or distribution, means having the right equipment in place and working properly. Over time the need will come to add or replace the everyday equipment that keeps a brewery running properly.
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Expert Topic Hoses in the Brewery – Finding the Right Type and Proper Maintenance
There is perhaps no more utilitarian object in a brewery than the lowly hose. Used to transfer beer from place to place, where gleaming stainless steel piping does not go, or clean systems, brewery hoses rarely get much love or thought. Yet the role they play is crucial and it’s important to give some thought before investing in them and how to maintain them.
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Expert Topic Setting Up a QC Lab with Neva Parker of White Labs
My favorite part of any brewery tour is seeing the lab. It’s not that I’m a science nerd or even particularly conversant in what goes on in these scientific sanctuaries. A lab is a sign that a brewery takes quality serious enough to invest resources in pursuit of it.
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Expert Topic Adding a Pilot Brewery
When walking through a brewery, attention is often paid to the workhorse brewhouse, the large-barrel mash tun doing a yeoman’s lift and the large fermenters where the magic is happening. More and more these days there are little brew kits tucked in a corner or off to the side that are not as flashy, but are doing the heavy research and development lift, resulting in beers that could one day get a full commercial release. The pilot brewery.
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Sponsored Using Fermentation Profiles to Improve Your Recipes with Pål Ingebrigtsen of PLAATO
Brewing is the perfect mix of science, creativity and craftsmanship. For many brewers, creating and improving on recipes, while maintaining a high quality product is a big part of their daily work. When brewers start to collect ongoing fermentation data across multiple batches over time, they can compare how small tweaks in the recipe or outside conditions can change the overall outcome of the fermentation.
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Sponsored Choosing Brewery Equipment: Lightning Round with Kevin Weaver of Brewmation
When selecting your brewing equipment, there are a number decisions to make that might not be obvious. Great beer can be brewed on any virtually any system, but selecting the right equipment for your brewery is dependent on your processes, your beer, and your budget. In this webinar, we’ll cover a range of topics to consider when shopping for your brewery equipment.
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Expert Topic Is a Wet Mill Right for your Brewery? A Chat with Scott Shirley at Lawson’s Finest Liquids
Wet milling remains one of those topics that brewers discuss but rarely encounter in the wild. Once solely the province of the largest craft brewers, in more recent years wet mills have become slightly more common but remain unusual to find in a smaller craft brewery.
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News Merger of the Kegs: MicroStar Buys KegStar
MicroStar Logistics, the largest independent owner of beer kegs in the world, announced that it has acquired the keg rental company Kegstar. The acquisition will grow Denver-based MicroStar’s international business by taking on Kegstar’s clients which include breweries in Australia, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the U.S.
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