Cerveza Artesanal
La combinación de la experiencia, los conocimientos y la maquinaria avanzada de Alfa Laval con la energía y la creatividad de los fabricantes de cerveza artesanal es una mezcla potente. Alfa Laval está apoyando a muchas empresas en su singular trayectoria en la elaboración de cerveza artesanal, ayudándolas a superar diversos retos a lo largo del camino. Alfa Laval ofrece asesoramiento experto de personas que conocen el sector de la elaboración de cerveza artesanal, desde la instalación correcta
Alfa Laval está listo para ayudarle con:
- Soluciones para todos los cerveceros artesanales, de la mano de quienes conocen el oficio.
- Una trayectoria probada de mejora del rendimiento y reducción del consumo de agua y energía.
- Flexibility to enable customers to diversify and quickly tap into new trends in craft brewing
- Una red global de servicios formada por especialistas en elaboración artesanal de cerveza que le ayudará con equipos, sistemas y conocimientos técnico
Cervezas excepcionales
El arte de elaborar una buena cerveza combina procesos complejos con creatividad artística. La experiencia de saber identificar los retos que se avecinan y responder antes de que se conviertan en problemas, sin perder de vista el objetivo de elaborar una cerveza excepcional y con carácter, es lo que permite salvar la distancia entre la teoría y la práctica de la elaboración artesanal.
Los equipos y soluciones para la elaboración artesanal de cerveza de Alfa Laval, desde componentes individuales y módulos de proceso hasta proyectos llave en mano, están diseñados para que todos, desde los productores locales independientes hasta las cervecerías globales, puedan mejorar la calidad de sus cervezas artesanales, optimizar la producción, reducir los costes y minimizar el impacto medioambiental. Al permitir un control estricto de la elaboración y los costes, Alfa Laval ayuda a los clientes a elaborar cervezas increíbles y destacadas.
Tackling the challenges in the beer-making process with our brewing equipment
From the brewhouse to the packaging, looking to drive quality and efficiency improvements in operations is an everyday fact of life for craft brewers. Incremental improvements to wort yields, beer loss or water usage can amount to significant quality boosts and savings over the long term.
Alfa Laval offers brewing process expertise, solutions and individual components for each process block to help customers avoid and overcome common issues, boosting profitability and efficiency as they go.
Brewhouse
The craft brewer’s drive for profitable and efficient operations starts in the brewhouse, and it is here where Alfa Laval offers the very latest solutions as it continually innovates and optimizes its equipment.
From the wort preparation, to the whirlpool, to the wort cooling, the challenges are many, and can include slow wort production, high energy and water usage, ingredient loss, fouling, and waste management.
Alfa Laval has the extraordinary solutions for these ordinary challenges to allow craft brewers to make great beer while saving on water and energy. Alfa Laval’s advanced technology ensures the optimum performance as decanters dewater spent grains; plate heat exchangers power energy recovery systems, rotary jet heads improve efficiency and hygiene, and intelligent whirlpool systems improve wort clarity before cooling.
Technology such as the Aldox process module, which produces high-quality deaerated and carbonated water, has been designed in close cooperation with the industry to ensure maximum performance.
The real deal: improving efficiency in the brewing of craft beers
When an independent brewery in Northern Europe was looking to replace the heat exchanger it used for cooling wort – a central part of brewing operations – they chose an H4 from Alfa Laval’s Hygienic line. They are now producing their signature wild yeast beers with higher hygiene and greater efficiency than ever.
Unrivalled expertise is brewed from a global beer adventure
There are not many careers where visiting craft breweries all over the world and sampling their product is part of the job description – but Jarim Guajardo gets to do just that. He has a great excuse, though. As Global Product Manager, Process and Filtration Systems at Alfa Laval, the visits offer him an unrivalled insight into this part of the brewing industry.
Coldblock
The craft brewer needs reliable and effective equipment in the coldblock to ensure great beer is hygienically produced, with consistent fermentation and efficient, cost-effective water and energy use.
Yeast management systems including yeast propagation plant, and dry hopping equipment such as Alhop and Iso-Mix External Drive are essential parts of the coldblock and need to be handled with great care.
Challenges such as foaming, process inconsistency, subpar hygiene, lengthy sedimentation time, beer loss and excess yeast can be effectively tackled with Alfa Laval’s world-class product portfolio of rotary jet mixers, centrifugal separators, coolers, tanks and more.
Multifunctional mixing system helps extend commercial success at Harpoon Brewery
Harpoon Brewery is an American craft brewery with roots in a driven passion for beer, along with a determination to make more high-quality beer choices available to the enthusiastic
consumer. Harpoon was started in 1986 on the Boston waterfront – the first brewery to commercially brew and bottle beer in Boston in more than a quarter of a century.
Optiwia™ marks significant milestone for water savings in brewery and beverage industries
With the global focus sharpening on the importance of efficient water use in industrial operations, a simple piece of new technology is set to make a big difference when it comes to saving water and costs in the brewing and beverage industries. It is already showing its worth at a craft brewery in France, where optimizing the water-use efficiency of their Brew 250 centrifuge without impacting on quality has increased the overall sustainability of their production processes.
Beer filtration and treatment
Production demands for craft breweries are intensifying as consumer tastes broaden and grow, and with it comes the challenge to increase product offerings while maintaining high quality and hygiene.
With Alfa Laval, craft brewers receive expert solutions in managing filtration, carbonation, alcohol adjustment, additive management, pasteurization and sterile filtration, and for those creating shandies, radlers, low-alcoholic or non-alcoholic beverages, there is world-class technology and expertise on hand to ensure demand can be met in these growing markets.
Preventing spoilage and clogging, and effectively managing waste, water and energy in the coldblock are absolutely key to efficient and profitable operations. Alfa Laval understands the imperatives of avoiding oxidization, managing CO2 levels and maintaining microbiological stability, with equipment such as the Aldox Mini, which produces perfectly deaerated water, delivering world-class performance.
From centrifugal separators in Alfa Laval’s Brew Series, unmatched in their flexibility and effectiveness, to sterile filtration modules, pasteurization systems, the Iso-Mix Mini with rotary jets, and equipment to meet the growing drinking trends, such as the Lowal dealcoholizer and Dealcoholization Module, craft brewers can be reassured they have access to the very best brewing technology and expertise.
How to max the hoppiness using a beer centrifuge
Mic recently installed the Alfa Laval Brew 80-plus centrifuge in his new brewery venture on New Zealand’s beautiful South Island. As a craft brewery veteran who owned a successful brewery in the US before, he knows that there’s more to centrifuge technology than fast filtration, as consumer demand for hoppier premium beers is increasing.
Cleaning and preparation of lines
The preparation and cleaning of lines in craft brewing is an absolutely crucial stage of the process, and Alfa Laval supports brewers in achieving the highest hygienic standards, avoiding issues such as oxidization, while effectively managing the impacts of high water, energy and chemical use.
Getting it wrong can have significant impacts on yield, quality and uptime, so craft brewers can be sure to get it right by using innovative and effective equipment, such as the Aldox Mini and TJ40G rotary jet heads. Alfa Laval’s tank-top system, which streamlines every stage of the process, can be partnered with Alfa Laval’s CIP systems, so that craft brewers can optimize sequences, reducing overall water and chemical usage.
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