Wort aeration system for craft breweries
Optimize your fermentation process with precise aeration control, ensuring optimal yeast activity and enhanced flavor profiles in your craft beers.
Oxygenates Wort for Fermentation Initiation
The GEA WORTSTAR Craft Wort Aeration Unit is designed for craft brewers seeking to enhance wort oxygenation with precision. This semi-automatic system uses a unique bubble size distribution method by creating a partial vacuum when wort flows into the aeration nozzle, entraining air and increasing oxygen uptake. Applicable in craft brewing and beverage production, it supports the fermentation of beers like pale ale, IPA, and lager. With a throughput of 30 to 195 hl per hour, the unit seamlessly integrates into your existing setup, offering continuous, hygienic operation with easy CIP cleaning. Designed with an annular gap nozzle for sterile air introduction, it ensures stable fermentation and superior beer quality while maintaining efficient energy use.
Benefits
- Enhances fermentation process efficiency with optimal oxygen uptake.
- Minimizes risk of contamination through sterile air introduction.
- Streamlines cleaning and maintenance with easy CIP capability.
- Ensures consistent beer quality with precise aeration control.
- Integrates seamlessly into brewing operations, reducing manual intervention.
- Applications
- Fermentation,Craft beer,Brewing,Beverage production
- End products
- Pilsner,Belgian ale,Lager,Amber ale,Pale ale,Ipa (india pale ale),Stout,Kolsch,Saison,Brown ale,Sour beer,Wheat beer,Porter
- Steps before
- Cooling,Wort preparation
- Steps after
- Fermentation,Yeast activity monitoring
- Input ingredients
- wort,oxygen,sterile air
- Output ingredients
- oxygenated wort,fermented beer
- 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.
- Capacity range
- 30 hl to 195 hl per hour
- Standard sizes (wort pipe)
- DN 25 to DN 50
- Wort flow rate
- 1.0 to 2.5 m/s
- Pressure loss wort pipe
- Max. 1.5 bar
- Air pressure
- 6.0 to 8.0 bar Ü
- Control
- Semi-automatic
- Working Mechanism
- Wort Aeration
- Integrated Steps
- Oxygenation post cooling
- CIP Principles
- Steam sterilization and CIP cleaning
- Flow Type
- Inline Continuous
- Bubble Size Distribution
- Fine,evenly distributed
- Sterile Air Introduction
- Through annular gap nozzle
- Automation Level
- Semi-automatic
- Biological compatibility
- Yes
- Cleanability
- CIP Sterilization
- Corrosive resistance (e.g. acids)
- Yes
- Density/particle size
- Adjustable for bubble distribution
- Control panel type
- Semi-automatic
- Compact footprint
- DN 25 to DN 50
- Discharge method
- Annular gap nozzle
- Flow rate
- 1.0 to 2.5 m/s
- Pressure loss
- Max. 1.5 bar
- Air pressure
- 6.0 to 8.0 bar Ü
- Control panel type
- PLC-based
- HMI type
- Touchscreen
- Integration possibilities
- SCADA,brewery management systems