Can I brew smaller batches with my brewery equipment
- Oct 12, 2022
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- tiantai
As a professional beer brewery equipment manufacturer for more than 15 years, we have met so many clients may facing a simple problem when choosing brewery equipment. They prefer to buy a littler bigger brewhouse than what they really needed at the beginning of their business. For example, one of our customer from Europe want to buy one 1000L brewhouse, but exactly the 500L brewhouse will fully meet his expected beer production at the beginning of his business. So Can I brew half batch or smaller batches with my brewhouse?
Absolutely the answer is yes. But please pay attention to several questions especially the spent grain bed thickness. You may need to do some calculations firstly.. As we know for general beers, a 30~40cm grain bed thickness is best for wort lautering, in actual beer brewing process, the spent grain thickness at 25~45cm is also acceptable. So when brewing smaller batches of beer, less grain will be used, means the thickness of spent grain would be thinner as well, but better not less than 25cm.
Here a sample for your reference as below:
If based on our standard 1000L brewhouse, the lauter tun diameter is 1460mm, means inner radius at 0.65M. if the spent grain thickness at 25cm, means now there are total about 166KG malt being used. So if the ratio of raw material to water at 1:3, means the smaller batch is about 660L.
If you wanna know more details on how to brew smaller batches with your brewery equipment. Or need us to do calculation on spent grain thickness, please feel free to talk to us!
Laura Hou
Sales Manager
Tiantai Beer Equipment
Absolutely the answer is yes. But please pay attention to several questions especially the spent grain bed thickness. You may need to do some calculations firstly.. As we know for general beers, a 30~40cm grain bed thickness is best for wort lautering, in actual beer brewing process, the spent grain thickness at 25~45cm is also acceptable. So when brewing smaller batches of beer, less grain will be used, means the thickness of spent grain would be thinner as well, but better not less than 25cm.
Here a sample for your reference as below:
If based on our standard 1000L brewhouse, the lauter tun diameter is 1460mm, means inner radius at 0.65M. if the spent grain thickness at 25cm, means now there are total about 166KG malt being used. So if the ratio of raw material to water at 1:3, means the smaller batch is about 660L.
If you wanna know more details on how to brew smaller batches with your brewery equipment. Or need us to do calculation on spent grain thickness, please feel free to talk to us!
Laura Hou
Sales Manager
Tiantai Beer Equipment
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