Dry hopping skid for breweries
Optimize your brewing process with this advanced technology, reducing hop aroma losses and improving extraction efficiency by up to 50%, all while ensuring minimal beer waste and maintaining high-quality aromatic profiles in your craft brews.
Enhances Hop Aroma and Minimizes Beer Losses
The GEA HOPSTAR® DRY from GEA is a sophisticated dry hopping skid designed for breweries aiming to enhance hop aroma extraction while minimizing beer losses. Unlike static processes, it operates using dynamic extraction with a low-shear force agitator, boosting extraction efficiencies by up to 50% and retaining hop solids within the unit. Capable of handling up to 750 kg of hop loads, it seamlessly integrates into existing brewing setups with fully automated operation. This plug-and-play unit includes a self-cleaning filter and a liquid jet mixer, all managed by a standalone control system for efficient signal exchange. By maintaining a CO2 atmosphere, it prevents oxygen uptake, ensuring the highest quality of dry-hopped beer. The system is CIP-compatible and can be customized for varying extraction cycle parameters to accommodate different hop varieties and desired aroma profiles.
Benefits
- Enhances flavor infusion with up to 50% higher hop aroma extraction efficiency.
- Minimizes beer losses by retaining hop solids within the unit.
- Reduces raw material demand, optimizing resource efficiency.
- Streamlines integration with existing systems, saving installation time and costs.
- Maintains beer quality with CO2 purging to prevent oxygen ingress.
- Applications
- Craft beer,Alcoholic beverages,Hop extract,Beer,Brewing ingredients
- End products
- Session ipa,New england ipa,Hop-infused pilsner,Hazy pale ale,Double ipa,Hop-forward stout,Hop-enhanced sour ale,India pale ale (ipa),Dry-hopped lager,Barrel-aged ale
- Steps before
- Hop selection,Manual hop loading,Brewing
- Steps after
- Aroma extraction,Beer transfer,Sedimentation,Packaging
- Input ingredients
- hops,hop pellets
- Output ingredients
- aroma enriched beer,hop aroma oils
- Market info
- GEA is known for its expertise in engineering innovative and sustainable equipment and solutions, focusing on sectors such as food, beverages, pharmaceuticals, and energy, with a reputation for quality, efficiency, and advanced technological applications in industrial processing.
- Automation
- Fully automated
- Plug-and-play integration
- Yes
- Hop load capacity
- Up to 750 kg
- Dynamic extraction efficiency
- Increases hop oil extraction
- CO2 atmosphere maintenance
- Prevents oxygen ingress
- Interface compatibility
- Standalone unit control with interfaces for signal exchange
- Cleaning compatibility
- Fully CIP-compatible
- Automation level
- Fully automated / plug-and-play
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Batch
- CIP/SIP
- Fully CIP-compatible
- Cleaning method
- CIP
- Changeover time
- Minimized due to plug-and-play design
- Energy efficiency
- Reduced raw material demand by 30-50%
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Machine footprint
- Compact
- Tank shape
- Extraction vessel
- Feed method
- Manual loading
- Discharge method
- Automated transfer to CCT
- Control panel type
- Standalone unit control
- Unit Size
- Standard sizes for hop loads up to 750 kg
- Integration method
- Can be integrated into existing cellars and connected to CCTs
- Control System
- Standalone unit control with interface for signal exchange
- Customization for Batch Size
- Larger batch sizes upon request
- Self-cleaning capability
- Includes self-cleaning filter