What is a wort grant of microbrewery
- May 06, 2021
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- tiantai
When using a pump to move wort from the lauter tun to the kettle of brewhouse, it is easy to pull liquid from the tun faster than the grain bed wants it to flow, compacting the bed of brewing systems and causing a stuck runoff. It is easy to have negative pressure and destroy the brewing tanks shape. Aside from being a large pain, a stuck runoff can also damage the pump of beer brewery equipment (magnetically coupled pumps can be damaged if run dry).
Then a lauter grant represents its possibility, now is popular used in most micro brewerys. It also is called as buffer tank.
A lauter grant is simply a vessel where place beteen lauter tank and kettle tank of brewing equipments, that collects the wort from the lauter tun of brewhouse systems. The pump is plumbed directly to the lauter grant instead of the lauter tun. Lauter grant position is generally lower than the wort level in the brew tank. Gravity gently pulls the wort from the lauter tun, the pump will not work on the lauter tun directly during lautering, thus minimizing compression of the grain bed and protect tanks in good condition.
For operation, we can adjust microbrewery system pump speed by VFD control, try best to assure pump transfer speed is same with lautering speed, so it can shape continuous flow. Only it needs some operating technical from brewmaster.
Another way is design level sensor on beer brewing system lauter grant , the pump can on/off automatically at high/low level.
Edited by Derrick
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Tiantai Equipment
Then a lauter grant represents its possibility, now is popular used in most micro brewerys. It also is called as buffer tank.
A lauter grant is simply a vessel where place beteen lauter tank and kettle tank of brewing equipments, that collects the wort from the lauter tun of brewhouse systems. The pump is plumbed directly to the lauter grant instead of the lauter tun. Lauter grant position is generally lower than the wort level in the brew tank. Gravity gently pulls the wort from the lauter tun, the pump will not work on the lauter tun directly during lautering, thus minimizing compression of the grain bed and protect tanks in good condition.
For operation, we can adjust microbrewery system pump speed by VFD control, try best to assure pump transfer speed is same with lautering speed, so it can shape continuous flow. Only it needs some operating technical from brewmaster.
Another way is design level sensor on beer brewing system lauter grant , the pump can on/off automatically at high/low level.
Edited by Derrick
[email protected]
Tiantai Equipment
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