hi all, i am building a small brewery in Thailand at the moment (30,000 liters/month). we will be producing tropical fruit ciders for the Thai market, hopefully in about 3-6 month.
i have no commercial brewing experience, just home brewing, so i hope you fine experts will take pity on a newbee and help me out with some of your wisdom.
the brewery is a 100mm thick PU panel room and the FVs are 3000 liter with their own integral cooling jackets. i have 2x 14.4kw chillers outside to keep the FVs cool. it slightly warmer than the surface of the sun here, so we need quite a bit of cooling.
i have a question about pumping finished cider, which is basically the same as beer, to the filter and bolting machine. what kind of pump do people typically use, a centrifugal or something else like a peristaltic pump or some other low agitation pump? or do you just push it out of the tank with pressure?
if centrifugal, would that be open or enclosed impeller and at what RPM?
my bottling machine is 1000b/hr x 300ml bottles so about 300liters/hour flow rate.
i will kill the yeast in the clearing tanks with potassium sorbate and potassium metabisulphite (unless anyone has a better idea) so there should not be any live yeast in the finished cider. but i'm worried about too much agitation causing problems with the CO2 in suspension.
you advice please about pumps or anything really, thanks, steve
i have no commercial brewing experience, just home brewing, so i hope you fine experts will take pity on a newbee and help me out with some of your wisdom.
the brewery is a 100mm thick PU panel room and the FVs are 3000 liter with their own integral cooling jackets. i have 2x 14.4kw chillers outside to keep the FVs cool. it slightly warmer than the surface of the sun here, so we need quite a bit of cooling.
i have a question about pumping finished cider, which is basically the same as beer, to the filter and bolting machine. what kind of pump do people typically use, a centrifugal or something else like a peristaltic pump or some other low agitation pump? or do you just push it out of the tank with pressure?
if centrifugal, would that be open or enclosed impeller and at what RPM?
my bottling machine is 1000b/hr x 300ml bottles so about 300liters/hour flow rate.
i will kill the yeast in the clearing tanks with potassium sorbate and potassium metabisulphite (unless anyone has a better idea) so there should not be any live yeast in the finished cider. but i'm worried about too much agitation causing problems with the CO2 in suspension.
you advice please about pumps or anything really, thanks, steve
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