Optimal whirlpool vessel for wort treatment
Enhance your wort quality with a vessel that optimizes trub cone formation, reduces thermal stress, and boosts brewing efficiency for superior beer production.

Enhances Wort Separation and Circulation
The Conical Bottom Whirlpool Wortex from Ziemann is designed to elevate your brewing process with precision wort separation and circulation. Its distinctive inverted conical bottom promotes efficient trub cone formation, minimizing wort losses while maximizing yield. Ideal for craft breweries and large beer production facilities, it efficiently processes a range of beers from IPAs to stouts. Equipped with three wort outlets and a customizable height-to-diameter ratio, the Wortex integrates seamlessly into brewing lines, optimizing throughput and enhancing production flexibility. The integrated cleaning system ensures ease of maintenance, supporting continuous and hygienic operations. Available in multiple dimensions, this vessel meets the demands of high hop dosing and complex brew recipes, all while ensuring reduced thermal and kinetic stress for optimal flavor preservation.
Benefits
- Enhances wort quality by ensuring compact trub cone formation and minimizing thermal stress.
- Increases brewing capacity with reduced whirlpool rest periods and efficient wort drainage.
- Offers customizable dimensions to accommodate various hop-loading strategies and brewhouse capacities.
- Ensures easy maintenance and hygiene with an integrated cleaning system.
- Provides precise wort flow control to optimize circulation and separation processes.
- Applications
- Chemicals,Distilling,Beyond-beer beverages,Hard seltzer,Beer,Juice,Edible oil,New food,Dairy
- End products
- Milk stout,Juicy ipa,Lager,High hop dose beer,Pale ale,Ipa (india pale ale),Hazy pale ale,Sour beer,Double ipa,Triple hopped lager,Crafted hard seltzer
- Steps before
- Milling,Mash Preparation,Boiling
- Steps after
- Cooling,Fermentation,Clarification
- Input ingredients
- wort,trub
- Output ingredients
- superior wort quality,trub cone,minimal wort content
- Market info
- Ziemann Holvrieka is known for its expertise in providing industrial engineered-to-order equipment for breweries. They design and manufacture advanced brewing systems and solutions, earning a strong reputation for quality and innovation in the brewing industry.
- Wort Outlets
- Three
- Height-to-Diameter Ratio
- 0.25–0.45
- Diameter Options
- 2,300 mm to 7,400 mm
- Conical Bottom Slope
- Two-degree
- Cleaning System
- Integrated Cleaning Unit
- Wort Flow Control
- Variable Flow Speed
- Hop-loading Capacity
- Customisable
- Working mechanism
- Inverted conical bottom with three wort outlets
- Integrated steps
- Variable wort flow speed control
- CIP Principles
- Integrated cleaning system
- Batch vs. continuous operation
- Batch
- Automation level
- Precise control of wort circulation
- Energy efficiency
- Reduced drainage speed for higher efficiency
- Density/particle size
- 0.5–2.5 g/cm³ / 50–1000 µm
- Hop-loading strategy
- Customizable
- Tank shape
- Conical Bottom
- Tank size
- Diameter options from 2,300 mm to 7,400 mm
- Height-to-diameter ratio
- 0.25 to 0.45
- Discharge method
- Three wort outlets
- Footprint
- Customer-specific
- Height-to-Diameter Ratio
- 0.25 to 0.45
- Diameter Options
- 2,300 mm to 7,400 mm
- Wort Flow Control
- Variable Flow Speed
- Cleaning System
- Integrated Cleaning Unit