400bbl/day Brewery Plant
- Apr 11, 2025
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- tiantai
1) Brief Introduction
Tiantai offers a wide choice of industrial brewery plant and technology to customers at an optimal cost. Brewery equipment configuration is designed keeping in mind the raw materials, capacity and brewing profile of different brands. The process automation and control philosophy is developed to match volumes, efficiency and consistency of the final product. Our brewery plant comply with the latest and stringent international standards. In this article, we will introduce configuration of 400bbl/day brewery plant.
2) General Configuration of 400bbl/day Brewery Plant
Malt Handling System |
Malt Feed Hopper |
Malt Elevator | |
Malt Classifier | |
De-stoner | |
Plate Type Magnet | |
Mill Feed Hopper | |
Malt Mill | |
Grist Case | |
Grist Conveyor | |
Dust Collection System | |
Brewhouse and brewing water section |
40bbl Cereal Cooker |
60bbl Mash Tun | |
60bbl Lauter Tun | |
60bbl Kettle Tun | |
60bbl Temporary Storage Tun | |
60bbl Whirlpool Tun | |
180bbl Hot Water Tun | |
Valves, Pumps, Heat Exchanger, Various Sensors | |
Yeast propogation, storage and pitching | Carlsberg Flask |
Yeast Propagator -1 | |
Yeast Propagator -2 | |
Yeast Storage Tanks | |
Yeast Pitching and Cropping Pump | |
Process&Utility Piping | |
Field Instrument | |
Fermentation and maturation section | 6 x 60bbl Fermentation Unitank |
8 x 240bbl Fermentation Unitank | |
16 x 360bbl Fermentation Unitank | |
Filtration section | DE Filter |
Bright beer section | 2 x 240bbl Bright Beer Tank |
2 x 360bbl Bright Beer Tank | |
CIP system for brewery | 1KL Caustic Tank |
1KL Hot Water Tank | |
1KL Acid Tank | |
1KL Sterile Tank | |
Pumps, Valves, and Various Sensors | |
Field instruments, control system, and automation | Full Automation |
Electrical for brewery | Cables, Signal Wire |
All other necessary auxiliary equipment | Cable Bridges, Support, and others |

3) Technical Basis of 400bbl/day Brewery Plant
Brew Length ( Cast Cold Out) | 60bbl |
Brew Batches per day | 1-6 batches |
No. of working days | 300 |
Cold wort collection per day | 60bbl/240bbl/360bbl |
Design based on brew plato | 15 |
Maximum Output Plato | 19 |
Minimum Output Plato | 12 |
Malt spent grain thickness | 25cm - 38cm |
Evaporation Rate: | 8% - 10% |
Voltage Supply | 400V, 3 Phases,50HZ AC, 24V DC or customized |
Water Supply Pressure | 2 - 6 bar |
Steam Working Pressure | 2 bar |
Air Source Pressure | 2 - 8 bar |
Brewery Expanding | Available |

4) Automation Level of 400bbl/day Brewery Plant
To realize maximum automation level
* Valves automation: pneumatic butterfly, pneumatic angle seat valve, pneumatic ratio angle seat valve
* One click brewing to save manual operation and reducing error rates
* Auto water mixing station for mashing or sparging
* Auto wort cooling station to reach needed fermentation temperature
* Auto brewing process, includes mashing, lautering, boiling and whirlpool
* Auto discharge of spent grain
* Auto mashing in before official brew day to save time and help streamline your mashing process
* Auto vessel pre-heating to save time and improve brewing consistency.
* Auto vessel flushing to maintain high level cleanliness and efficiency in brewing
* Recipe storage for different types beer
* Auto alarm protection
* Auto security protection
* Auto log archiving



Tiantai provides turnkey solutions on brewery equipment, if you have the plan to build an industrial brewery, I am at your disposal anytime.