Continuous grape pomace dealcoholizer
Streamline your spirit production with efficient dealcoholization and rectification of grape pomace, ensuring high-quality distillates while preventing overheating and preserving flavor integrity.

Processes Grape Pomace into High-Quality Distillates
The C 5 Dealcoholizer from Cadalpe is a continuous processing solution tailored for the spirits industry, specifically addressing the challenges of efficient alcohol removal from grape pomace. This system features innovative design elements, including a uniquely shaped dealcoholizing chamber and uniform steaming to ensure thorough and gentle processing. Automatic level control optimizes feed and discharge rates, preventing overheating and scorched flavors by utilizing low-temperature presaturated steam. As a result, it consistently produces high-quality grappa and other distillates like brandy and fruit schnapps. Designed for seamless integration into existing distillation lines, the C 5 supports both continuous and batch rectification processes. The equipment offers robust performance for both solid and liquid product types, ultimately enhancing production efficiency while maintaining premium taste and quality.
Benefits
- Enhances product quality by preventing off-flavors through low-temperature steam processing.
- Increases operational efficiency with continuous, automated processing and minimal labor requirements.
- Supports high-volume production needs, optimizing output from grape pomace.
- Seamlessly integrates into existing distillation setups, facilitating flexible and efficient workflows.
- Contributes to product consistency and quality, essential for premium grappa and other distillates.
- Applications
- Grappa,Alcoholic beverages,Spirits,Distillates
- End products
- Fruit schnapps,Pomace distillate,Flavored spirits,Neutral spirit,Brandy,Alcoholic extracts
- Steps before
- Grinding,Purification
- Steps after
- Rectification,Packaging
- Input ingredients
- grape pomace
- Output ingredients
- grappa,alcohol
- Market info
- Cadalpe is renowned for designing and manufacturing custom-engineered equipment for the wine, beverage, and food industries, specializing in advanced filtration, distillation, and heat exchange technologies, earning a reputation for innovation and quality.
- Processing capacity
- Remarkable quantity of raw product per day
- Automation
- Automatic level control of pomace
- Temperature control
- Low temperature presaturated steam
- Overheating prevention
- Yes
- Smoking consistency
- Uniform steaming of pomace
- Feed and discharge rates
- Integrated adjustment
- Rectification
- Continuous or discontinuous columns
- Working mechanism
- Continuous
- Automation level
- Automatic level control
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Continuous
- Prevention of overheating
- Low temperature presaturated steam
- Steaming method
- Uniform steaming
- Mixing
- Slow mixing
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Dealcoholizing chamber shape
- Original shape
- Pomace level control
- Automatic level control
- Footprint
- Compact/Optimized for space-saving
- Discharge method
- Automatic discharge rates
- Feed method
- Integrated adjustment of feed
- Control panel type
- Automatic level control
- Integration possibilities
- Automatic feed and discharge rate adjustment
- Overheating prevention method
- Low-temperature presaturated steam
- Steaming method
- Uniform steaming via slow mixing
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Continuous