Dry hopping system for medium size breweries
Enhance the aroma and flavor of your brews with a system that accelerates the dry hopping process, ensuring optimal hop extraction and minimizing product loss for distinct and consistent beer varieties.
Enhances Flavor and Reduces Hop Solids
The Alfa Laval Alhop Dry Hopping System is engineered for medium-sized and craft breweries, addressing the challenges of efficient dry hopping in IPA production. Utilizing a continuous cross-flow recirculation process, it maximizes flavor extraction while minimizing hop solids and product losses. Its dynamic agitation ensures even distribution and stabilization of hop aroma, perfect for creating a range of IPA varieties including Double IPAs, New England IPAs, and Hazy IPAs.
Designed to integrate seamlessly into existing brewery lines, the Alhop system automates the recirculation and extraction processes, enhancing throughput without clogging. It employs a specifically designed strainer and diafiltration to recover valuable beta acids and further cleanses the hop slurry with deaerated water. The energy-efficient design reduces operational costs, supporting sustainability and operational cost-effectiveness.
With its robust construction suitable for the brewery environment, it simplifies maintenance with easy access for cleaning, maintaining high hygienic standards. Alfa Laval supports customization to meet specific brewery needs, ensuring the system meets compliance and production goals.
Benefits
- Enhances flavor consistency and beer yield by preventing hop solid buildup.
- Reduces operational costs with efficient energy use and minimal product loss.
- Increases production speed through continuous, clog-free processing.
- Simplifies maintenance and cleaning with easy-access design.
- Supports diverse IPA and craft beer production for market adaptability.
- Applications
- Craft beer,Beer brewing,Alcoholic beverages,Ipa beer
- End products
- Session ipas,New england ipas,Ipa beer varieties,West coast ipas,Hazy ipas,Double ipas (dipas),Hoppy pale ales
- Steps before
- Purification,Pellet introduction,Beer feed
- Steps after
- Concentration,Diafiltration,Alpha acids recovery
- Input ingredients
- hop pellets,beer,deaerated water (DAW)
- Output ingredients
- dry hopped beer,alpha acids,pumpable suspension of hops in DAW
- Market info
- Alfa Laval is renowned for its expertise in heat transfer, separation, and fluid handling technologies, providing innovative, energy-efficient engineered-to-order solutions for various industries including food, marine, and energy.
- Extraction rate
- Fast and efficient
- Product throughput
- High
- Risk of clogging
- No risk
- System automation
- Automatable
- Cross flow process
- Yes
- Hop solid introduction
- Minimal
- Product loss
- Reduced
- Recovery method
- Concentration and diafiltration
- Alpha acids recovery
- Deaerated water wash
- Pumpable suspension
- Hops in DAW
- Working mechanism
- Dry hopping system with dynamic agitation
- Integrated steps
- Disaggregation,homogenization,cross flow recirculation,concentration and diafiltration
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Continuous
- Cleaning method
- Minimal introduction of hop solids
- Automation level
- Simple and automatable
- Machine Footprint
- Compact
- Feed Method
- Continuous
- Discharge Method
- Continuous through strainer
- Recirculation Loop
- Cross flow
- System Type
- Stand-alone
- Control panel type
- PLC / HMI
- Integration possibilities
- SCADA / DCS
- Agitation Type
- Dynamic
- Flow process
- Cross flow
- Hopper design
- Stand-alone
- Automation level
- Semi-automatic / Fully automatic
- Material compatibility
- Stainless steel / Food-grade materials