THINKING ABOUT EXPANSION PLAN FOR YOUR BREWERY DO IT LIKE THE PROS

With the rapid grow of the craft beer market, more and more microbreweries are considering their expansion plans. It’s a great problem to have for microbrewery or brewpub owners (as demand is increasing), and for us too! But as a brewery equipment supplier, we need to pay more attention as to how to accommodate the future needs of the microbrewery.

Let’s view a project we recently finished of additional 10bbl we installed as part of the expansion plan of a brewery. Hopefully this brewery expansion project can offer some suggestion for any brewery owners who are planning to upgrade their brewery or brewpub.
A. Spend enough time on communication and be patience
We received an inquiry from one client that would like to improve his lauter, increase to four 10bbl fermenters, two brite beer tanks and some accessories for his brewing company.
The client to do/add list included:
5bbl Brewhouse
Add one grain out slide on his lauter tun.
Add one hops blocker in his kettle.
Custom fabricate one stainless steel mash paddle for his 5bbl mash tun.
Cellar Tanks
Add four 10bbl fermenters
He has several 5bbl fermenters in his brewery, and in order to keep them all looking good (it can really help with the marketing later on) after installation we designed same level glycol inlet and outlet for the new 10bbl fermenters and existed 5bbl fermenters.
ladder support
Hose hooks
Accurate size of thermowell
Rotary racking arm
Increase two 10bbl BBTs with:
Same level of glycol outlet (again, to make it nicer)
Ladder hook
Electric room dehumidifier
Lots of fittings and accessories were required, such as butterfly valves, sample tap, spunding valves, carb stone, sight glass, Tee, E blow, PT100, etc. We are capable of it and enjoyed this project very much. Transform a small business into a multi-million dollars business gives us a lot of pleasure.
For communication we used a few documents to process everything. Of course emails and phone calls are essential in every brewery expansion project. So be prepared for it.
Things we’re are taking into the account when offering the client a solution:
What is the surface finish of the existed tanks in the brewery
What is the layout (pictures required) of the brewery
Is there enough space or we’re working under limited space in the brewery
What’s the condition of the existing fermenters and BBTs
What is the working pressure of tanks
What is the dimension of all ports of the existing cellar tanks
What’s the brewer have in mind? Any ideas or specific plans?

Project Manager
Abby Wong
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Whatsapp: +86 170 9164 4622