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.
News Can Manufacturers Institute Offers Grants for Can Recycling
The Can Manufacturers Institute (CMI) will make grants available in 2021 to Material Recovery Facilities (MRF) for aluminum can capture equipment, which will ensure used beverage cans (UBC) are accurately sorted, sold and recycled. Capturing and recycling aluminum cans provides a positive environmental and economic impact as metal recycles forever and UBCs are typically made into new cans, according to the CMI press release.
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Brewing Equipment featured expert topic supported by Chart Industries
Chart’s LN2 dosers support container pressurization and TPO reduction, and Earthly Labs’, SES’ and Howden’s carbon capture and compressor solutions enable breweries to capture CO2 emissions during fermentation process, boilers, or anaerobic digesters and reuse it onsite. ChartWater™ utilizes high recovery and low-energy water and wastewater treatment technologies, including the optimization of water reuse for sustainable, market-leading solutions.
Expert Topic A Buyers Guide to Canning Lines
The pandemic has generated a new interest in canning like never before. Craft beer in cans was growing rapidly prior to March of this year, but with many taproom focused breweries now pivoting to shipping beer direct to the consumer and to off-premise sales, there is a growing interest in canning.
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Expert Topic Iron Heart Mobile Canning Acquires Michigan Canning
Iron Heart Canning Company, a mobile canning service for breweries, cideries, wineries, distilleries and non-alcoholic producers, announced today that it has acquired Michigan Mobile Canning, a mobile canning business operating out of Kalamazoo, Mich., and Indianapolis, Ind.
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Expert Topic Opening on a Two-Barrel System – Will it Work?
The pace of new brewery openings is still roaring with at least 1,049 new brewery openings in 2018, according to the Brewers Association. Many of these new openings are small. Very small. Like two barrel system small. This allows people who want to dive into the industry to do so with very little capital investment. A two barrel system requires little square footage, can be purchased for under $100,000 and can get a brewer-wannabie open quickly, easily and cheaply.
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News K-Cup Cocktails? Say it Ain’t So!
Keurig Dr Pepper has partnered with Anheuser-Busch InBev to market an automated home bar system that makes cocktails using K-cup type pods similar to home coffee machines. But instead of a wake-you-up caffeine drink, the machine will quick-produce a wide variety of alcoholic mixed drinks.
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News DME Resurfaces
DME has announced that it will re-open its Charlottetown based manufacturing facility under new ownership. The organization, which was placed in receivership in November 2018, has been purchased by CIMC Enric Tank & Process B.V. (CETP), a subsidiary of CIMC ENRIC Holdings Ltd.
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Expert Topic Hope that DME May Rise Again
According to the Canadian news outlet CBC, Diversified Metal Engineering (DME) is negotiating with a potential buyer. Canadian-based DME, which manufacturers brewing equipment, left many breweries stranded after paying deposits on DME equipment yet to be delivered. Details of the negotiations were not released, but left hope that DME may resurface.
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Expert Topic Major Equipment Manufacturer DME Goes Under
Canadian brewery equipment manufacturer Diversified Metal Engineering (DME) has gone into receivership, most likely stranding many brewers who have paid deposits on brewing equipment still under production. The company has been a well-known supplier of breweries and tanks to the craft brewing industry since 1991.
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‘Do It Yourself’ Brewery Floor Coating – Part 6 – Safety
Epoxy has strong adhesive properties, chemical and heat resistance, and toughness. Do it yourself applicators should understand some of the risks of using epoxy products and know how to safely handle and apply these systems. (Refer to individual product instructions.)
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‘Do It Yourself’ Brewery Floor Coating – Part 5 – Product application
Insure the floor is as dry as possible without any puddles of water present. If there is excess water on the substrate, take up excess with a suitable vacuum and wait until dry (as possible) condition exists. Then, after the material is thoroughly mixed, pour the material onto the substrate.
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‘Do It Yourself’ Brewery Floor Coating – Part 4 – Repair tips and products
Epoxy floor coatings are measured in ‘mils’ (thousandths of an inch). A medium build epoxy coating system will cure at 7-15 mils. A high build epoxy coating system will dry at 20-35 mils. If you need to ‘level’ just ¼”, that would be 250 mils, so you can see why using an epoxy to make floor repairs or ‘level’ a floor would be impractical and expensive. Broom finish floors and rough surface floors can have surface variations of up to 1/8” (125 mils) and normally cannot be leveled by epoxy only. The term ‘self-leveling’ means that the epoxy will smooth itself out in most cases, at the thickness it is applied at.
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‘Do It Yourself’ Brewery Floor Coating – Part 3 – Common floor types
New or unpainted/unsealed concrete: The floor must be properly prepared to accept the coating by one of the previous methods. Note: Newly poured concrete must ‘cure’ first. Moisture in the floor may cause coating failure. New concrete normally has to cure generally at least 30 days. Test any concrete to be coated by (as previously mentioned) taping a 4’ x 4’ sheet of clear plastic on the floor with duct tape. If moisture under the plastic sheet or floor dampness/darkening appears the next day, then do not coat yet. Older concrete with moisture issues can also create problems. If you have a continuing moisture problem then we recommend doing an inexpensive moisture test and using either a standard primer or a moisture barrier primer.
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‘Do It Yourself’ Brewery Floor Coating – Part 2 – Surface prep options
Surface prep is the most important step of any coating project. An improperly prepped floor will result in either a failure, or shortened performance life of the floor covering. New or old concrete MUST be prepped before coating. There are two recommended methods for preparing your concrete floor for coating, the acid etching method, the mechanical method, or with a Flash Bonding Primer.
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Brewery Floors – Flooring materials
Tile: A new aged tile floor is a great option. These are not your typical bathroom tiles. Most tiles in the industry these days are hexagon German tiles (many options) Although expensive to install, tile offers great service life and floor protection. A tile floor, properly installed using epoxy grouting should essentially never wear out, but will require periodic regrouting, especially around floor drain areas. The tile’s grout lines are where you will have issues and there are a lot of grout lines to keep track of. Some tile designs offer an engineered texture or slip resistant pattern cast into the ceramic. Homeowner-grade tiles are a nonstarter because they are light duty, slippery when wet, and can’t hold up to the severe loading, chemicals, and heat of the brewery environment.
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Brewery Floors – Drainage
Drainage Slope – Sloped Floors should be poured with a minimum slope of at least 1/4 inch per foot drop to the drains. This will assure thorough drainage of the floor. During the design phase, laying out the tanks and equipment placements is recommended to determine the optimum positioning of floor drains and drainage slope, always plan ahead for future expansion and growth.
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Brewery Floors Introduction
Brewery floors often rank pretty low on the expenditure list when setting up a brewery. To the uninformed, a floor is a floor, but to those who have lived and struggled with the additional expense and workload brought on by a bad floor, creating a good brewery floor system is, to put it simply, setting up your business on a good foundation.
Concrete is very porous and will eventually break down if left unprotected from the elements, chemicals, and pressures of a busy growing brewery. Good coatings and companies can be very hard to find, but it’s worth the extra effort to do a little homework and seek out an experienced concrete and coating provider that knows the ins and outs and dos and don’ts for a brewery environment.
Contents
Introduction
New Brew Floor
Drainage
Flooring Materials
Maintenance & Repair
Brewery Floor Q&A
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